Kevin Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4569-7844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kevin Hart
“The Reserve of Truth”
Writing to Robert Bridges on October 24, 1883, G. M. Hopkins has occasion to correct his friend's putative understanding of “mystery.” It is not “an interesting uncertainty,” he says, but (at least for a Catholic), an “incomprehensible certainty.” The source of interest, he goes on to say, is “the unknown, the reserve of truth beyond what the mind reaches and still feels to be behind.”1 In the preface to his rich and engaging Incomprehensible Cer…
“The Anamorphic Journey”
In part four of D'ailleurs , la Révélation (2020) Jean‐Luc Marion evokes the state of being seized by a saturated phenomenon, whether divinely revelatory or not, which guides one “across the desert on an anamorphic journey [ parcours d'anamorphose ].” The figure of anamorphosis is well‐known to anyone familiar with sixteenth‐century art, visual or literary; it comes directly from experiments with mirrors or perspective, giving rise with the latte…
Narrative Space and the Figure of the Refugee in the Early Life Writing of Ocean Vuong
Saying Everything
Can one "know everything"? In the past, there were people who came close to doing so, but it seems impossible to have contemporaries who know everything. Certainly, some texts aspire to "say everything"; and the French expression tout dire has a venerable history. Yet saying everything is not the same as polymathy. Can texts, however, be polymaths? A case for an affirmative answer to the question is made by way of passive constitution
Poetry as Spiritual Exercise
In early 1942 the French Algerian writer Max-Pol Fouchet devoted a special double number of his review, Fontaine, to an unusual theme: De la poésie comme exercice spirituel.1 His readers would certainly have recalled Ignatius Loyola's Exercitia spiritualia (1522–1524), a detailed set of meditations designed to lead Catholics on retreat to discern the will of God in their lives and thereby to attend to him first and foremost.2 Holding a copy of th…
Using a 3-D Printed Mechatronics Project to Simulate Mems Design and Fabrication
Contribution: A semester-long project, geared towards a multidisciplinary group of undergraduate engineering students, to design and simulate a large-scale microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) 2-D optical scanner is presented. Background: MEMS component design and fabrication typically requires a cleanroom and costly high-vacuum equipment; these are not available at many small educational institutions. Conventionally, institutions without cleanr…
Words fail us”
This article will look at political treatments of language in Samuel Beckett’s early novel Watt and place the novel’s linguistic scepticism in conversation with three authors, the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, the language theorist Felix Mauthner, and the English-born, Canadian parodist Stephen Leacock. The paper will argue that Beckett, like Leacock, engages in Mauthnerian critiques of language, destabilising Johnsonian formulae for language sta…
Barefoot
WORLDLIT.ORG 61 After the Funeral by Robert Bly There’ll be no more mother. We’ll have to live now With the looks on the faces of our friends, And half-open windows, and lamps that go on By themselves, and an egg standing on a plate. Last night I dreamt I entered a house I knew well. A woman, still single, unmarried, lived there, soon To be my wife, but living with another man. She stood by the window, and I chose her once more. The next day, my …
Barefoot
WORLDLIT.ORG 61 After the Funeral by Robert Bly There’ll be no more mother. We’ll have to live now With the looks on the faces of our friends, And half-open windows, and lamps that go on By themselves, and an egg standing on a plate. Last night I dreamt I entered a house I knew well. A woman, still single, unmarried, lived there, soon To be my wife, but living with another man. She stood by the window, and I chose her once more. The next day, my …
"Introduction to Special Issue "English Poetry and Christianity
The hallowed scholarly area known as "Religion and Literature" has been seeking to expand itself, clarify itself, and even justify itself over the last decade or two
‘Poverty's Speech’
Poesia e Revelação
“A Poesia religiosa” é geralmente considerada como poesia menor. Por quê? Várias suposições subjacentes a este juízo são isoladas, inspecionadas e, então, descartadas. Tornamo-nos melhores leitores de poesia religiosa quando a lemos como fenomenólogos. Isto requer de nós a colocação entre parênteses da atitude natural, é claro, e a mesma postura em relação à “atitude sobrenatural”. Só então teremos acesso fenomenológico ao que o poema nos diz sob…
Uncommon Equivocation in Geoffrey Hill
This essay considers Hill’s expression “common equivocation,” which he associates with Richard Hooker. The expression comes about as a response to Christopher Ricks’s admiration of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets . In that late poem Ricks finds that Eliot has confidence in clichés, “in their generous common humanity.” Hill responds by asking Ricks to think about how this expression would fare within the field of Hooker’s “common equivocation.” But wh…
Of Love and How
IN THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION (1926), Paul Tillich reminds us that “phenomenology came to be of decisive importance for the philosophy of the twentieth century,” its strength being, negatively, that it avoids “dissolving objects by means of critical analysis” and, positively, that it regards “the essence of the things themselves quite apart from the question of their existence” (Tillich 1956: 75). Phenomenology tells us, Tillich says, that “the ques…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms i…
Phenomenality and Christianity
From The Star To The Disaster
Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption comes before the Shoah and Maurice Blanchot's The Writing of the Disaster comes after it. The one addresses itself with hope to the figure of a star; the other meditates on the state of being without a guiding star. The figure of Emmanuel Levinas stands between these two works, since Totality and Infinity is marked by Rosenzweig's critique of totality and The Writing of the Disaster is in part a response …
Without Derrida
This essay explores the adventures of the word “without” in Jacques Derrida's work from the mid-1970s until his death. It is argued that Derrida comes to Yale primarily with a new reading of Kantian formalism in mind (“purpose without purposiveness”) and that this in part explains both the ready acceptance and the resistance he found at Yale. It is further argued that by the time Derrida left Yale in the mid-1980s, the word “without” was serving …
The Experience of God
This book provides a series of approaches to the ancient question of whether and how God is a matter of “experience”, or, alternately, to what extent the notion of experience can be true to itself if it does not include God. On the one hand, it seems impossible to experience God: the deity does not offer Himself to sense experience. On the other hand, there have been mystics who have claimed to have encountered God. The essays in this collection …
The Experience of God
The Power of Contestation
"One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault, Barthes, Levinas, and Derrida. Until recently, Blanchot's work remained largely unknown outside France, in part because of its complexity and in part because Blanchot shunned intellectual celebrity. Over the past decade, however, nearly all of Blanchot'…
La Poesia è Scala a Dio
The right to say everything
Can one say everything? Does one have the right to say everything? This essay distinguishes these two questions, and seeks to clarify them with reference to two French writers for whom the questions are central: Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida. Blanchot considers the questions with respect to the Marquis de Sade and Louis‐René des Fore ̆ts. For Blanchot, the right to say everything is not supported by an appeal to the integrity of the self; …
Gnostic Return in Modernity. Cyril O'Regan
Metropolitan governance, residential segregation, and mortality among African Americans
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that the degree to which local government is metropolitanized is associated with mortality rates for African Americans and with residential segregation, which has itself previously been shown to be positively associated with mortality among African Americans. METHODS: One hundred fourteen US standard metropolitan statistical areas were examined. The primary dependent variable was the age-adjusted, race…
Phenomenality and Christianity
Narrative Space and the Figure of the Refugee in the Early Life Writing of Ocean Vuong
Blanchot's ‘Trial of Experience’
Sketching The Horizon”
Interest’ in Les A. Murray
In almost any of his literary reviews, and in many of his essays, we find Murray distinguishing between good and bad poetry, between what gives pleasure and what does not, and thereby assuming and working with an economy of profit and loss. The system of exchange does not end there, though, and one of the interesting things about 'interest' is that it lets us glimpse the steady circulation of Murray's work and its contexts: the sorts of things he…
Writing Things
a common question, and one that is usually posed from within the borders of philosophy rather than poetry. In recent times, it is true, this question has come under scrutiny from various positions and in different ways: by Husserl who, in recalling ontology to the bounds of the Lebenswelt, uncovered a vantage point from which the limits of the question is . . .? come into view; by Heidegger, who recognized that poetry can think in a deeper way th…
The ubiquity of the finite
The textual condition
Inventions of Difference
T.S. Eliot and American philosophy
T.S. Eliot and American philosophy: The harvard years." History of European Ideas, 22(2), pp. 166–167
Desiring Theology . Charles E. Winquist
Metropolitan governance, residential segregation, and mortality among African Americans
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that the degree to which local government is metropolitanized is associated with mortality rates for African Americans and with residential segregation, which has itself previously been shown to be positively associated with mortality among African Americans. METHODS: One hundred fourteen US standard metropolitan statistical areas were examined. The primary dependent variable was the age-adjusted, race…
Blanchot's ‘Trial of Experience’
Sketching The Horizon”
Gnostic Return in Modernity. Cyril O'Regan
The Power of Contestation
"One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault, Barthes, Levinas, and Derrida. Until recently, Blanchot's work remained largely unknown outside France, in part because of its complexity and in part because Blanchot shunned intellectual celebrity. Over the past decade, however, nearly all of Blanchot'…
La Poesia è Scala a Dio
The right to say everything
Can one say everything? Does one have the right to say everything? This essay distinguishes these two questions, and seeks to clarify them with reference to two French writers for whom the questions are central: Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida. Blanchot considers the questions with respect to the Marquis de Sade and Louis‐René des Fore ̆ts. For Blanchot, the right to say everything is not supported by an appeal to the integrity of the self; …
The Experience of God
This book provides a series of approaches to the ancient question of whether and how God is a matter of “experience”, or, alternately, to what extent the notion of experience can be true to itself if it does not include God. On the one hand, it seems impossible to experience God: the deity does not offer Himself to sense experience. On the other hand, there have been mystics who have claimed to have encountered God. The essays in this collection …
The Experience of God
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms i…
Phenomenality and Christianity
From The Star To The Disaster
Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption comes before the Shoah and Maurice Blanchot's The Writing of the Disaster comes after it. The one addresses itself with hope to the figure of a star; the other meditates on the state of being without a guiding star. The figure of Emmanuel Levinas stands between these two works, since Totality and Infinity is marked by Rosenzweig's critique of totality and The Writing of the Disaster is in part a response …
Without Derrida
This essay explores the adventures of the word “without” in Jacques Derrida's work from the mid-1970s until his death. It is argued that Derrida comes to Yale primarily with a new reading of Kantian formalism in mind (“purpose without purposiveness”) and that this in part explains both the ready acceptance and the resistance he found at Yale. It is further argued that by the time Derrida left Yale in the mid-1980s, the word “without” was serving …
Of Love and How
IN THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION (1926), Paul Tillich reminds us that “phenomenology came to be of decisive importance for the philosophy of the twentieth century,” its strength being, negatively, that it avoids “dissolving objects by means of critical analysis” and, positively, that it regards “the essence of the things themselves quite apart from the question of their existence” (Tillich 1956: 75). Phenomenology tells us, Tillich says, that “the ques…
Uncommon Equivocation in Geoffrey Hill
This essay considers Hill’s expression “common equivocation,” which he associates with Richard Hooker. The expression comes about as a response to Christopher Ricks’s admiration of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets . In that late poem Ricks finds that Eliot has confidence in clichés, “in their generous common humanity.” Hill responds by asking Ricks to think about how this expression would fare within the field of Hooker’s “common equivocation.” But wh…
‘Poverty's Speech’
Poesia e Revelação
“A Poesia religiosa” é geralmente considerada como poesia menor. Por quê? Várias suposições subjacentes a este juízo são isoladas, inspecionadas e, então, descartadas. Tornamo-nos melhores leitores de poesia religiosa quando a lemos como fenomenólogos. Isto requer de nós a colocação entre parênteses da atitude natural, é claro, e a mesma postura em relação à “atitude sobrenatural”. Só então teremos acesso fenomenológico ao que o poema nos diz sob…
Barefoot
WORLDLIT.ORG 61 After the Funeral by Robert Bly There’ll be no more mother. We’ll have to live now With the looks on the faces of our friends, And half-open windows, and lamps that go on By themselves, and an egg standing on a plate. Last night I dreamt I entered a house I knew well. A woman, still single, unmarried, lived there, soon To be my wife, but living with another man. She stood by the window, and I chose her once more. The next day, my …
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