Joseph Urbas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4175134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Urbas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Urbas |
| SIGNATURE | URBAS J |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5167-8995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In Praise of Second-Rate French Philosophy
In Praise of Second-Rate French Philosophy
Est-il possible qu’un philosophe français de second rang eût une influence décisive sur la formation du Transcendantalisme ? Perry Miller répondit par l’affirmative, dans sa présentation de la réception américaine de Victor Cousin. L’historiographie post-millerienne n’a pas été de cet avis et a donné, par voie de conséquence, une image déformée de la Nouvelle-Angleterre intellectuelle des années 1830. Il est temps de redonner à Cousin sa vraie pl…
Cavell’s “Moral Perfectionism” or Emerson’s “Moral Sentiment”
What is properly Emersonian about moral perfectionism? Perhaps the best answer is: not much. Stanley Cavell’s signature concept, which claims close kinship to Emerson’s ethical philosophy, seems upon careful examination to be rather far removed from it. Once we get past the broad, unproblematic appeals to Emerson’s “unattained but attainable self,” and consider the specific content and implications of perfectionism, the differences between the tw…
Ce qui donne pointe à la sauce »
Desire, which stirs the passions of hope and fear, also remains under constant threat of extinction by their extremes - security and despair. Such, in broad terms, is the analysis Descartes presents in Les Passions de l'âme (1649), an analysis that arguably affords a great deal of insight into the dynamics of desire in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. In a profoundly disturbing twist, Humbert Humbert's obsession with security, more than a mere sy…
Moby-Dick, tragédie de la médiation
In Moby-Dick, tragedy is, for character, narrator, and author alike, fundamentally a problem of mediation. Ahab may ultimately be in pursuit of a high «romantic object» ; but despite his deepening aversion to the material world, he «must use tools» to attain that goal. And «there's the rub» : the concrete world reveals itself in practice to be as little «trustworthy» as his ivory leg ; the whale-line-often « magical » at times « terrible »-does i…
ABC of Ezra Pound’s Science
Cet article se propose un double but : montrer la grande cohérence de la démarche « scientifique » de Pound - démarche qui, bien plus qu'une simple affaire d'habillage discursif, est au cœur de son art ; et parallèlement, rendre accessible, sous une forme succincte, les idées-force de cette science toute particulière, en d'autres termes faire un travail de vulgarisation que nous assumons comme tel et dont, à travers ses propres écrits, Pound nous…
Le realisme critique et au-delà. La dialectique de Roy Bhaskar
The Confidence-Man
The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade as Anti-Emersonian Literary Form Critics have long acknowledged the presence of a satiric portrait of Emerson in CM. We would argue, however, that the force and reach of Melville's critique of Emerson may be best measured in terms of the novel's form rather than its content. After a brief sketch of the evolution of Melville's attitude towards Emerson and an outline of the structural peculiarities of the work, w…
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The Confidence-Man
The Confidence-Man : His Masquerade as Anti-Emersonian Literary Form Critics have long acknowledged the presence of a satiric portrait of Emerson in CM. We would argue, however, that the force and reach of Melville's critique of Emerson may be best measured in terms of the novel's form rather than its content. After a brief sketch of the evolution of Melville's attitude towards Emerson and an outline of the structural peculiarities of the work, w…
Le realisme critique et au-delà. La dialectique de Roy Bhaskar
ABC of Ezra Pound’s Science
Cet article se propose un double but : montrer la grande cohérence de la démarche « scientifique » de Pound - démarche qui, bien plus qu'une simple affaire d'habillage discursif, est au cœur de son art ; et parallèlement, rendre accessible, sous une forme succincte, les idées-force de cette science toute particulière, en d'autres termes faire un travail de vulgarisation que nous assumons comme tel et dont, à travers ses propres écrits, Pound nous…
Ce qui donne pointe à la sauce »
Desire, which stirs the passions of hope and fear, also remains under constant threat of extinction by their extremes - security and despair. Such, in broad terms, is the analysis Descartes presents in Les Passions de l'âme (1649), an analysis that arguably affords a great deal of insight into the dynamics of desire in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. In a profoundly disturbing twist, Humbert Humbert's obsession with security, more than a mere sy…
Moby-Dick, tragédie de la médiation
In Moby-Dick, tragedy is, for character, narrator, and author alike, fundamentally a problem of mediation. Ahab may ultimately be in pursuit of a high «romantic object» ; but despite his deepening aversion to the material world, he «must use tools» to attain that goal. And «there's the rub» : the concrete world reveals itself in practice to be as little «trustworthy» as his ivory leg ; the whale-line-often « magical » at times « terrible »-does i…
Cavell’s “Moral Perfectionism” or Emerson’s “Moral Sentiment”
What is properly Emersonian about moral perfectionism? Perhaps the best answer is: not much. Stanley Cavell’s signature concept, which claims close kinship to Emerson’s ethical philosophy, seems upon careful examination to be rather far removed from it. Once we get past the broad, unproblematic appeals to Emerson’s “unattained but attainable self,” and consider the specific content and implications of perfectionism, the differences between the tw…
In Praise of Second-Rate French Philosophy
In Praise of Second-Rate French Philosophy
Est-il possible qu’un philosophe français de second rang eût une influence décisive sur la formation du Transcendantalisme ? Perry Miller répondit par l’affirmative, dans sa présentation de la réception américaine de Victor Cousin. L’historiographie post-millerienne n’a pas été de cet avis et a donné, par voie de conséquence, une image déformée de la Nouvelle-Angleterre intellectuelle des années 1830. Il est temps de redonner à Cousin sa vraie pl…
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