Bo Earle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3853239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bo Earle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bo |
| FAMILY NAME | Earle |
| SIGNATURE | EARLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Back to the Bathtub of the Future: The Anthropocene and Romantic Post-Personal Personification
Part of the impasse we face in discussing climate change is that to speak on behalf of a beleaguered planet we need to mean too much. But if the Anthropocene names the era of man-made climate, it is also the era of the exhaustion of humanistic purpose, in which science has lost much of its normative social authority even as its warnings of global crisis become increasingly dire, and since 9/11 ethical norms generally have been increasingly underm…
The Mirror of the Cashier: Proust, Style and the Atmosphere of Authorship
The Mirror of the Cashier:Proust, Style and the Atmosphere of Authorship Bo Earle (bio) I In the opening episode of À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust’s eponymous narrator recounts a devious ploy to coax a good-night kiss from his mother while she is occupied with dinner guests, tricking the servant Françoise into communicating his desire to his mother. The desperate measure Marcel employs here articulates the extravagance of his desire…
Putting the Dialectic back in Negative Dialectics: Modern Melancholia and Adornian Ethical Aesthetics
In Negative Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno attempts to work through the death of aura. Drawing on G. W. F. Hegel's account of the “beautiful soul” from the Phenomenology of Spirit and Robert Pippin's account of “modern melancholia” in Friedrich Nietzsche, I interpret these attempts in terms of a melancholic resistance of meaning. But I suggest that this resistance can be construed in terms of Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's readings of analogous res…
Tarrying with the Negative: Baudelaire, Mallarme, and the Rhythm of Modernity
Drawing on commentary by De Man, Benjamin, Poulet and Bersani, I argue that Baudelaire's Harmonie du Soir and Mallarm 's H rodiade set out not only to testify to modernity's constitutively fragmentary, and implicitly violent, experience of time, but also to create new norms of conceptual and formal coherence for experiencing such fragmentation positively. As Benjamin puts it, they offer not the experience of shock itself, but "the experience for …
Involuntary Narration, Narrating Involition: Proust on Death, Repetition and Self-Becoming
Leo Bersani has suggestively identified a redemptive, "mortuary aesthetic" as the organizing principle of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu: the "program in La Recherche," Bersani writes, is to achieve an artwork in which "the particular is resurrected as the individual . . . truth liberated from phenomena." 1 To be redeemed of one's phenomenal insufficiency, or desire, is to sacrifice oneself as a subject of desire in order that one …
Negotiating the “Weites Feld”: Realism and Discursive Performance in Nietzsche and Effi Briest
(2002). Negotiating the “Weites Feld”: Realism and Discursive Performance in Nietzsche and Effi Briest. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 233-253
Back to the Bathtub of the Future: The Anthropocene and Romantic Post-Personal Personification
Part of the impasse we face in discussing climate change is that to speak on behalf of a beleaguered planet we need to mean too much. But if the Anthropocene names the era of man-made climate, it is also the era of the exhaustion of humanistic purpose, in which science has lost much of its normative social authority even as its warnings of global crisis become increasingly dire, and since 9/11 ethical norms generally have been increasingly underm…
Putting the Dialectic back in Negative Dialectics: Modern Melancholia and Adornian Ethical Aesthetics
In Negative Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno attempts to work through the death of aura. Drawing on G. W. F. Hegel's account of the “beautiful soul” from the Phenomenology of Spirit and Robert Pippin's account of “modern melancholia” in Friedrich Nietzsche, I interpret these attempts in terms of a melancholic resistance of meaning. But I suggest that this resistance can be construed in terms of Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's readings of analogous res…
Involuntary Narration, Narrating Involition: Proust on Death, Repetition and Self-Becoming
Leo Bersani has suggestively identified a redemptive, "mortuary aesthetic" as the organizing principle of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu: the "program in La Recherche," Bersani writes, is to achieve an artwork in which "the particular is resurrected as the individual . . . truth liberated from phenomena." 1 To be redeemed of one's phenomenal insufficiency, or desire, is to sacrifice oneself as a subject of desire in order that one …
Negotiating the “Weites Feld”: Realism and Discursive Performance in Nietzsche and Effi Briest
(2002). Negotiating the “Weites Feld”: Realism and Discursive Performance in Nietzsche and Effi Briest. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 233-253
Tarrying with the Negative: Baudelaire, Mallarme, and the Rhythm of Modernity
Drawing on commentary by De Man, Benjamin, Poulet and Bersani, I argue that Baudelaire's Harmonie du Soir and Mallarm 's H rodiade set out not only to testify to modernity's constitutively fragmentary, and implicitly violent, experience of time, but also to create new norms of conceptual and formal coherence for experiencing such fragmentation positively. As Benjamin puts it, they offer not the experience of shock itself, but "the experience for …
Putting the Dialectic back in Negative Dialectics: Modern Melancholia and Adornian Ethical Aesthetics
In Negative Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno attempts to work through the death of aura. Drawing on G. W. F. Hegel's account of the “beautiful soul” from the Phenomenology of Spirit and Robert Pippin's account of “modern melancholia” in Friedrich Nietzsche, I interpret these attempts in terms of a melancholic resistance of meaning. But I suggest that this resistance can be construed in terms of Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's readings of analogous res…
Back to the Bathtub of the Future: The Anthropocene and Romantic Post-Personal Personification
Part of the impasse we face in discussing climate change is that to speak on behalf of a beleaguered planet we need to mean too much. But if the Anthropocene names the era of man-made climate, it is also the era of the exhaustion of humanistic purpose, in which science has lost much of its normative social authority even as its warnings of global crisis become increasingly dire, and since 9/11 ethical norms generally have been increasingly underm…
The Mirror of the Cashier: Proust, Style and the Atmosphere of Authorship
The Mirror of the Cashier:Proust, Style and the Atmosphere of Authorship Bo Earle (bio) I In the opening episode of À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust’s eponymous narrator recounts a devious ploy to coax a good-night kiss from his mother while she is occupied with dinner guests, tricking the servant Françoise into communicating his desire to his mother. The desperate measure Marcel employs here articulates the extravagance of his desire…
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