Tom Eyers
Biographic Data
| ID | 311444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Eyers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Eyers |
| SIGNATURE | EYERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duquesne University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Baudelaire and historical time, or, the limits of allegorical reading
This essay engages with lyric poems by Baudelaire as a means of probing the limits of allegorical-political reading. Critically confronting, and to some degree recoding, Theodor Adorno’s practice of allegorical-dialectical interpretation, the essay seeks alternative, abstract, non-allegorical logics of historical time within Baudelaire’s verse. These are located in both moments of paradoxical stasis – the apparent negation of time and forward mov…
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life
Language poetry, psychoanalysis, and the textual production of history
In recent years, literary scholars have turned again to the question of literary form in its interaction with historical and political pressures. Rather than rehashing those debates, this essay demonstrates how, through close attention to poetic form, a new theorization of poetic temporality and history is possible, one that takes due account of the speculative productivity of literary language itself. ‘Language poetry’ by Ron Silliman and Bruce …
Critical Response II Theory over Method, or In Defense of Polemic
Determined and Unmoved: Wordsworth's Materialism
If scholars of Wordsworth have differed considerably in their interpretation of the poet's invocations of nature and subjectivity, there has been broad agreement that it is these and allied themes that determine the poetry's importance. In contrast, this essay identifies a deep seam of materialism in Wordsworth's verse, one that alights upon and magnifies aspects of the natural world that are irrecuperable by the subject or by poetic symbol. In p…
Badiou among the Poets
The Anglophone reception of the French philosopher Alain Badiou has focused largely on his ontological and political commitments. Where Jacques Rancière is increasingly received as a philosopher of art above all else, Badiou's own critical commitments have received less attention. In this review essay of Badiou's recent collection, The Age of the Poets, I will scrutinize Badiou's readings of literature, and in particular his readings of Wallace S…
Alain Badiou, Wallace Stevens and the paradoxical productivity of poetic form
In this essay, I take the measure of Badiou's approach to literature and art by focusing on his reading of Wallace Stevens. My aim is not to comprehensively explain the place of art in Badiou's wider philosophy; such a project is beyond the ken of a relatively short article. Rather, Badiou's flawed conscription of Stevens to his philosophy of the event will serve as a foil to my own reading of the poet, one that contests what I take to be Badiou'…
Paul de Man's Philosophical Poetics
When details of the literary critic Paul de Man's anti-Semitic wartime journalism surfaced in the 1980s, enemies of deconstruction in the academy claimed that the always-controversial style of thought tended inherently towards nihilism in its tight focus on the paradoxes of language and in its relative indifference to truth claims. More recently, 'speculative realists' in philosophy have lambasted deconstruction and critical theory more generally…
Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France
Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France
Postrationalism Psychoanalysis Epistemology And Marxism In Postwar France
"Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured in the literature, although it contained the first published work of authors now famous in contemporary critical thought, including Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner, Luce Irigaray, André Green and Jacques-Alain Miller. The Cahiers served as…
The Perils of the "Digital Humanities": New Positivisms and the Fate of Literary Theory
This essay situates the rise of the so-called digital humanities within earlier theoretical trends and methodologies. Taking as its focus the impact of digital techniques on literary studies, the essay argues that advocates for the new digital methods often lapse into an uncritical positivism at the moment that they espouse an apparently critical historicism. In assessing the shortcomings of the confluence of digital and historical approaches, th…
Psychoanalytic Structuralism in the Cahiers Pour l'Analyse
This paper examines key articles contained within the experimental journal of philosophy Cahiers pour l'Analyse, published in Paris between 1966 and 1969, with a view to assessing the different ways in which Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, along with Althusser's structural Marxism, were appropriated by the journal's authors. In particular, early writings by Jacques-Alain Miller and André Green published in the journal are interrogated for the diff…
Scott Wilson (2008) The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment , New York: Suny PressGregg Lambert (2006) Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? , London and New York: Continuum
Bachelard, Lacan and the Impurity of Scientific Formalization
This essay examines the conjunction of French historical epistemology and Lacanian theory in postwar France. In particular, Lacan's account of scientific formalization is scrutinized insofar as it develops aspects of the prior epistemological research of Gaston Bachelard, whose innovative approach to the problem of the nature and limits of scientific knowledge proved so influential on the subsequent field of French structuralism. Lacan's reflecti…
Alienation After Derrida
Simon Skempton’s book re-reads Marx’s concept of alienation, and its roots in Hegel, through Derrida’s critique of the metaphysics of presence. In a wide-ranging study that engages with Heidegger, Kant and Lukács, as well as with a large proportion of Derrida’s work, both early and late, Skempton argues that, contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy in critical theory, it is possible to account for a kind of political ‘disalienation’, provided that o…
Critical Response II Theory over Method, or In Defense of Polemic
Paul de Man's Philosophical Poetics
When details of the literary critic Paul de Man's anti-Semitic wartime journalism surfaced in the 1980s, enemies of deconstruction in the academy claimed that the always-controversial style of thought tended inherently towards nihilism in its tight focus on the paradoxes of language and in its relative indifference to truth claims. More recently, 'speculative realists' in philosophy have lambasted deconstruction and critical theory more generally…
Alienation After Derrida
Simon Skempton’s book re-reads Marx’s concept of alienation, and its roots in Hegel, through Derrida’s critique of the metaphysics of presence. In a wide-ranging study that engages with Heidegger, Kant and Lukács, as well as with a large proportion of Derrida’s work, both early and late, Skempton argues that, contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy in critical theory, it is possible to account for a kind of political ‘disalienation’, provided that o…
Alienation After Derrida
Simon Skempton’s book re-reads Marx’s concept of alienation, and its roots in Hegel, through Derrida’s critique of the metaphysics of presence. In a wide-ranging study that engages with Heidegger, Kant and Lukács, as well as with a large proportion of Derrida’s work, both early and late, Skempton argues that, contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy in critical theory, it is possible to account for a kind of political ‘disalienation’, provided that o…
Scott Wilson (2008) The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment , New York: Suny PressGregg Lambert (2006) Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? , London and New York: Continuum
Bachelard, Lacan and the Impurity of Scientific Formalization
This essay examines the conjunction of French historical epistemology and Lacanian theory in postwar France. In particular, Lacan's account of scientific formalization is scrutinized insofar as it develops aspects of the prior epistemological research of Gaston Bachelard, whose innovative approach to the problem of the nature and limits of scientific knowledge proved so influential on the subsequent field of French structuralism. Lacan's reflecti…
Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France
Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France
Postrationalism Psychoanalysis Epistemology And Marxism In Postwar France
"Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured in the literature, although it contained the first published work of authors now famous in contemporary critical thought, including Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner, Luce Irigaray, André Green and Jacques-Alain Miller. The Cahiers served as…
The Perils of the "Digital Humanities": New Positivisms and the Fate of Literary Theory
This essay situates the rise of the so-called digital humanities within earlier theoretical trends and methodologies. Taking as its focus the impact of digital techniques on literary studies, the essay argues that advocates for the new digital methods often lapse into an uncritical positivism at the moment that they espouse an apparently critical historicism. In assessing the shortcomings of the confluence of digital and historical approaches, th…
Psychoanalytic Structuralism in the Cahiers Pour l'Analyse
This paper examines key articles contained within the experimental journal of philosophy Cahiers pour l'Analyse, published in Paris between 1966 and 1969, with a view to assessing the different ways in which Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, along with Althusser's structural Marxism, were appropriated by the journal's authors. In particular, early writings by Jacques-Alain Miller and André Green published in the journal are interrogated for the diff…
Paul de Man's Philosophical Poetics
When details of the literary critic Paul de Man's anti-Semitic wartime journalism surfaced in the 1980s, enemies of deconstruction in the academy claimed that the always-controversial style of thought tended inherently towards nihilism in its tight focus on the paradoxes of language and in its relative indifference to truth claims. More recently, 'speculative realists' in philosophy have lambasted deconstruction and critical theory more generally…
Badiou among the Poets
The Anglophone reception of the French philosopher Alain Badiou has focused largely on his ontological and political commitments. Where Jacques Rancière is increasingly received as a philosopher of art above all else, Badiou's own critical commitments have received less attention. In this review essay of Badiou's recent collection, The Age of the Poets, I will scrutinize Badiou's readings of literature, and in particular his readings of Wallace S…
Alain Badiou, Wallace Stevens and the paradoxical productivity of poetic form
In this essay, I take the measure of Badiou's approach to literature and art by focusing on his reading of Wallace Stevens. My aim is not to comprehensively explain the place of art in Badiou's wider philosophy; such a project is beyond the ken of a relatively short article. Rather, Badiou's flawed conscription of Stevens to his philosophy of the event will serve as a foil to my own reading of the poet, one that contests what I take to be Badiou'…
Critical Response II Theory over Method, or In Defense of Polemic
Determined and Unmoved: Wordsworth's Materialism
If scholars of Wordsworth have differed considerably in their interpretation of the poet's invocations of nature and subjectivity, there has been broad agreement that it is these and allied themes that determine the poetry's importance. In contrast, this essay identifies a deep seam of materialism in Wordsworth's verse, one that alights upon and magnifies aspects of the natural world that are irrecuperable by the subject or by poetic symbol. In p…
Language poetry, psychoanalysis, and the textual production of history
In recent years, literary scholars have turned again to the question of literary form in its interaction with historical and political pressures. Rather than rehashing those debates, this essay demonstrates how, through close attention to poetic form, a new theorization of poetic temporality and history is possible, one that takes due account of the speculative productivity of literary language itself. ‘Language poetry’ by Ron Silliman and Bruce …
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life
Baudelaire and historical time, or, the limits of allegorical reading
This essay engages with lyric poems by Baudelaire as a means of probing the limits of allegorical-political reading. Critically confronting, and to some degree recoding, Theodor Adorno’s practice of allegorical-dialectical interpretation, the essay seeks alternative, abstract, non-allegorical logics of historical time within Baudelaire’s verse. These are located in both moments of paradoxical stasis – the apparent negation of time and forward mov…
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