Michael G Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 389146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael G Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael G |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rütgers (Germany) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Flair for Theory
Derrida's essay, ‘Devant la loi’, opens with the citation of an1897 letter from Freud to his friend, Wilhelm Fliess, in which he confides that he has a presentiment he shall soon discover the origin of morality. What interests Derrida is not only the discovery that will indeed soon follow but the temporal structure of presentiment itself. Seeking to give such a vague intimation a more rigorous sense, he theorizes presentiment as a way of ‘precogn…
The Persistence of the Witness
Outtakes of a Life
"Suddenly my whole life passed before my eyes." Scientific interest in the "life review experience" or LRE, as it is now called, may be traced to the beginning of the twentieth century and have its origins, as Kittler suggests, in the invention of film. Aware of this interest, Benjamin gives the notion of the LRE a novel twist in his 1936 essay, "The Storyteller." According to him, what is set in motion inside a man as his life comes to an end ar…
The Day the Sun Stood Still
The Day the Sun Stood Still:Benjamin's Theses, Trauma, and the Eichmann Trial Michael G. Levine (bio) [H]ope finally wrests itself from it [the semblance of reconciliation: Versöhnung]; and like a trembling question, there echoes at the end of the book that "How beautiful" in the ears of the dead, who, we hope, awaken, if ever, not to a beautiful world but to a blessed one. —Walter Benjamin, "Goethe's Elective Affinities" Der entscheidende Augenb…
Poetry's Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifice
Poetry's Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifice: Celan's Poems for Eric Michael G. Levine In the spring and summer of 1968 Paul Celan addressed a number of poems to his son Eric, the second of his sons and the only one still alive. His first son, François, had died shortly after birth in October 1953 and his passing is commemorated in Celan's poem “Grabschrift für François” (“Epitaph for François”) published in the 1955 collection Von Schwelle zu Schwel…
A Place So Insanely Enchanting”
“A Place So Insanely Enchanting”: Kafka and the Poetics of Suspension Michael G. Levine So I find myself wavering, constantly flying up to the top of the mountain, but barely able to last an instant up there. Other people waver as well, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught by the relative who walks beside them for that purpose. I, however, waver way up high; it is unfortunately not death, …
Pendant
Pendant: Büchner, Celan, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian Michael G. Levine Rutgers University "A posteriori—that's how everything begins." Büchner, Leonce and Lena (I.3) In his 1960 Meridian address delivered on the occasion of receiving the Büchner Prize for Literature, the poet Paul Celan pinpoints a central organizing moment in the work of the nineteenth-century writer and dramatist in whose name the award was given. While winners of th…
Necessary Stains
“In making MAUS, I found myself drawing every panel, every figure, over and over—obsessively—so as to pare it down to an essence, as if each panel was an attempt to invent a new word, rough-hewn but streamlined.” —Art Spiegelman, “Little Orphan Annie’s Eyeballs” The publication of Art Spiegelman’s MAUS “comix, ” the first volume of which appeared in 1986 and the second in 1991, has helped to define an important turning point in the history of Hol…
Writing through Repression
What does it mean to treat a dream as a censored text? Why does Freud turn to the realm of politics when attempting to describe dreams and forces that shape them? What happens to the concept of when it enters Freudian discourse? Is its political significance lost in translation or does Freud's borrowing render enigmatic what we thought we understood under the name of censorship and under the name of borrowing? In Writing Through Repression, Micha…
The Subject is Taboo
Writing about is of necessity a scandalous project. To broach the question is to tread on forbidden ground. Yet forbidden by whom? On what grounds? And in whose name? Such questions are particularly impertinent in the case of since the latter derive their force precisely by virtue of their extreme familiarity. They are so strangely familiar and so self-evident that one need not and cannot ask, come? How to handle the subject of inevitably turns i…
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The Subject is Taboo
Writing about is of necessity a scandalous project. To broach the question is to tread on forbidden ground. Yet forbidden by whom? On what grounds? And in whose name? Such questions are particularly impertinent in the case of since the latter derive their force precisely by virtue of their extreme familiarity. They are so strangely familiar and so self-evident that one need not and cannot ask, come? How to handle the subject of inevitably turns i…
Writing through Repression
What does it mean to treat a dream as a censored text? Why does Freud turn to the realm of politics when attempting to describe dreams and forces that shape them? What happens to the concept of when it enters Freudian discourse? Is its political significance lost in translation or does Freud's borrowing render enigmatic what we thought we understood under the name of censorship and under the name of borrowing? In Writing Through Repression, Micha…
Necessary Stains
“In making MAUS, I found myself drawing every panel, every figure, over and over—obsessively—so as to pare it down to an essence, as if each panel was an attempt to invent a new word, rough-hewn but streamlined.” —Art Spiegelman, “Little Orphan Annie’s Eyeballs” The publication of Art Spiegelman’s MAUS “comix, ” the first volume of which appeared in 1986 and the second in 1991, has helped to define an important turning point in the history of Hol…
Pendant
Pendant: Büchner, Celan, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian Michael G. Levine Rutgers University "A posteriori—that's how everything begins." Büchner, Leonce and Lena (I.3) In his 1960 Meridian address delivered on the occasion of receiving the Büchner Prize for Literature, the poet Paul Celan pinpoints a central organizing moment in the work of the nineteenth-century writer and dramatist in whose name the award was given. While winners of th…
A Place So Insanely Enchanting”
“A Place So Insanely Enchanting”: Kafka and the Poetics of Suspension Michael G. Levine So I find myself wavering, constantly flying up to the top of the mountain, but barely able to last an instant up there. Other people waver as well, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught by the relative who walks beside them for that purpose. I, however, waver way up high; it is unfortunately not death, …
The Day the Sun Stood Still
The Day the Sun Stood Still:Benjamin's Theses, Trauma, and the Eichmann Trial Michael G. Levine (bio) [H]ope finally wrests itself from it [the semblance of reconciliation: Versöhnung]; and like a trembling question, there echoes at the end of the book that "How beautiful" in the ears of the dead, who, we hope, awaken, if ever, not to a beautiful world but to a blessed one. —Walter Benjamin, "Goethe's Elective Affinities" Der entscheidende Augenb…
Poetry's Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifice
Poetry's Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifice: Celan's Poems for Eric Michael G. Levine In the spring and summer of 1968 Paul Celan addressed a number of poems to his son Eric, the second of his sons and the only one still alive. His first son, François, had died shortly after birth in October 1953 and his passing is commemorated in Celan's poem “Grabschrift für François” (“Epitaph for François”) published in the 1955 collection Von Schwelle zu Schwel…
Outtakes of a Life
"Suddenly my whole life passed before my eyes." Scientific interest in the "life review experience" or LRE, as it is now called, may be traced to the beginning of the twentieth century and have its origins, as Kittler suggests, in the invention of film. Aware of this interest, Benjamin gives the notion of the LRE a novel twist in his 1936 essay, "The Storyteller." According to him, what is set in motion inside a man as his life comes to an end ar…
The Persistence of the Witness
A Flair for Theory
Derrida's essay, ‘Devant la loi’, opens with the citation of an1897 letter from Freud to his friend, Wilhelm Fliess, in which he confides that he has a presentiment he shall soon discover the origin of morality. What interests Derrida is not only the discovery that will indeed soon follow but the temporal structure of presentiment itself. Seeking to give such a vague intimation a more rigorous sense, he theorizes presentiment as a way of ‘precogn…
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