Zakir Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 311450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zakir Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zakir |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Antoine Compagnon, Proust, a Jewish Way
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Before the Verb
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Introduction
IntroductionReading After Blanchot Zakir Paul (bio) "Blanchot is an even greater waste of time than Proust" (qtd. in Smock 3). George Poulet's judgment, in Ann Smock's wry translation, gives pause to anyone who might claim contemporary literary or political relevance for the French writer, critic, and journalist. Poulet writes, "Thus, much more radically even than Proust, Maurice Blanchot appears a man of 'lost time'" (qtd. in Smock 4).1 How does…
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Blanchot without Blanchot
This article explores the arc of Blanchot's life, in conversation with a recent critical biography, to suggest what the significance of his writing might be today. It first situates Blanchot in the 1930s through the lens of contemporary debates about the period. It then explores what his turn to literary criticism and narrative in the 1940s might have signified and allowed him to negotiate as a “counter-law.” Finally, it turns to his time as a di…
Introduction
IntroductionReading After Blanchot Zakir Paul (bio) "Blanchot is an even greater waste of time than Proust" (qtd. in Smock 3). George Poulet's judgment, in Ann Smock's wry translation, gives pause to anyone who might claim contemporary literary or political relevance for the French writer, critic, and journalist. Poulet writes, "Thus, much more radically even than Proust, Maurice Blanchot appears a man of 'lost time'" (qtd. in Smock 4).1 How does…
Gathering Intelligence from Taine to Bergson
The notion of "intelligence" rearticulated the nature and limits of psychic life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This article analyzes one stage in the genealogy of "intelligence," focusing on passages from Hippolyte Taine's De l'intelligence (1870) and Henri Bergson's L'evolution creatrice (1907). Taine and Bergson describe two divergent paths - the artificial and the vital - mapping out the looming cognitive and philosophical terr…
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This article examines “The Present Social Situation of the French Writer” in order to offer a speculative reconstruction of its theory of “political style.” While the 1934 essay is often treated as a montage of passages from previous texts on French modernist literature, the present article argues that its unusual form allows Benjamin to transcend familiar oppositions of form and content. Instead, it relates political tendency to literary form th…
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The notion of "intelligence" rearticulated the nature and limits of psychic life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This article analyzes one stage in the genealogy of "intelligence," focusing on passages from Hippolyte Taine's De l'intelligence (1870) and Henri Bergson's L'evolution creatrice (1907). Taine and Bergson describe two divergent paths - the artificial and the vital - mapping out the looming cognitive and philosophical terr…
Before the Verb
This paper examines the uses and possible significance of the third-person reflexive se. The occurrence of this form allows us to analyze philosophical concerns in Blanchot's narrative and critical writings: the relation of activity to passivity, the representation of liminal states of consciousness, and the ability of writing to capture the event of dying and death. The article concludes by turning to Blanchot's last text published as a récit, L…
Introduction
IntroductionReading After Blanchot Zakir Paul (bio) "Blanchot is an even greater waste of time than Proust" (qtd. in Smock 3). George Poulet's judgment, in Ann Smock's wry translation, gives pause to anyone who might claim contemporary literary or political relevance for the French writer, critic, and journalist. Poulet writes, "Thus, much more radically even than Proust, Maurice Blanchot appears a man of 'lost time'" (qtd. in Smock 4).1 How does…
Blanchot without Blanchot
This article explores the arc of Blanchot's life, in conversation with a recent critical biography, to suggest what the significance of his writing might be today. It first situates Blanchot in the 1930s through the lens of contemporary debates about the period. It then explores what his turn to literary criticism and narrative in the 1940s might have signified and allowed him to negotiate as a “counter-law.” Finally, it turns to his time as a di…
Fugitive Proust
How are we to read Proust today? How does In Search of Lost Time speak to us now? This novel has been so thoroughly mapped that it may seem there is nothing left to discover. Many of us have trampe
Insomniacs
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Behind the Angel of History
Odradek's Exemplarity
Antoine Compagnon, Proust, a Jewish Way
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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