Pierre-Héli Monot
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre-Héli Monot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre-Héli |
| FAMILY NAME | Monot |
| SIGNATURE | MONOT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4584-2944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Three Historicist Comments
This article discusses the politics of time in the culture wars of the 1980s by way of three comments on the discursive and political uses of the conceptual pairs historicism/otium, reform/revolution, and emergency/patience. This article argues that (1) the culture wars articulated a politically valuable dialectic of critique and the objects of critique, 2) historians tend to foreshorten their account of the culture wars and make light of their n…
Karla FC Holloway, Legal Fictions
Constituting Race, Composing Literature is an intriguing addition to Karla Holloway's distinguished body of work in African-American Studies. While Holloway's classic Moorings and Metaphors (1992) demonstrated her firm grasp of an extensive array of critical vocabularies from linguistics to mythography, Legal Fictions focuses more closely on the interconnection of U.S. law, the construction of racial identities, and African-American literature, t…
Maximalist Expectations in an Age of Anti-Populism
Is All Discourse Official? On the Poetics of Gifting and Gossiping
This essay discusses gift-giving and gossiping in a canonical American novel (John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, 1939) by way of the two texts which sealed the fate of dominant literary scholarship after WWII: Marcel Mauss’s essay The Gift and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss. Steinbeck’s use of informal discourse and Marcel Mauss’s descriptions of tacit compulsory reciprocation present the opportunity to dispute …
Contagion and Conviction
In recent years, scholarly and political discourses have increasingly tended to rhetorically conflate the circulation of information and the circulation of viral pathogens. Rumor and gossip are routinely taken to be “contagious” (Franks and Attia) and the massive circulation of information in the public sphere is said to be akin to “viral events” (Nahon and Hemsley). Trapped within the precarious logic of absolute metaphors (cf. Blumenberg 14), s…
Universality in Splinters
Personal epistemologies
This paper formulates two general claims. Firstly: that the indeterminacy of the notion of life (bios) is one of the central, albeit covert, problems historians face when applying biographical methods to historical inquiry. Secondly: that the definition and redefinition of bios itself should be acknowledged as one of the main collective projects of the biographical tradition, especially in the related fields that have nurtured the biography–histo…
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Personal epistemologies
This paper formulates two general claims. Firstly: that the indeterminacy of the notion of life (bios) is one of the central, albeit covert, problems historians face when applying biographical methods to historical inquiry. Secondly: that the definition and redefinition of bios itself should be acknowledged as one of the main collective projects of the biographical tradition, especially in the related fields that have nurtured the biography–histo…
Universality in Splinters
Is All Discourse Official? On the Poetics of Gifting and Gossiping
This essay discusses gift-giving and gossiping in a canonical American novel (John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, 1939) by way of the two texts which sealed the fate of dominant literary scholarship after WWII: Marcel Mauss’s essay The Gift and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss. Steinbeck’s use of informal discourse and Marcel Mauss’s descriptions of tacit compulsory reciprocation present the opportunity to dispute …
Contagion and Conviction
In recent years, scholarly and political discourses have increasingly tended to rhetorically conflate the circulation of information and the circulation of viral pathogens. Rumor and gossip are routinely taken to be “contagious” (Franks and Attia) and the massive circulation of information in the public sphere is said to be akin to “viral events” (Nahon and Hemsley). Trapped within the precarious logic of absolute metaphors (cf. Blumenberg 14), s…
Maximalist Expectations in an Age of Anti-Populism
Karla FC Holloway, Legal Fictions
Constituting Race, Composing Literature is an intriguing addition to Karla Holloway's distinguished body of work in African-American Studies. While Holloway's classic Moorings and Metaphors (1992) demonstrated her firm grasp of an extensive array of critical vocabularies from linguistics to mythography, Legal Fictions focuses more closely on the interconnection of U.S. law, the construction of racial identities, and African-American literature, t…
Three Historicist Comments
This article discusses the politics of time in the culture wars of the 1980s by way of three comments on the discursive and political uses of the conceptual pairs historicism/otium, reform/revolution, and emergency/patience. This article argues that (1) the culture wars articulated a politically valuable dialectic of critique and the objects of critique, 2) historians tend to foreshorten their account of the culture wars and make light of their n…
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