Martin Shuster
Biographic Data
| ID | 462106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Shuster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Shuster |
| SIGNATURE | SHUSTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goucher College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7543-1188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
La persistance du western: Yellowstone, la Nouvelle télévision et l’histoire américaine
Cet essai explore les façons dont le western a trouvé une nouvelle vie dans la « Nouvelle télévision », en particulier dans le néo western Yellowstone. L’article s’intéresse à l’importance du western à la fois pour le médium qu’est la Nouvelle télévision et pour la construction de l’identité et de l’histoire américaines. Je soutiens que si le western a joué un rôle central dans la construction de l’identité américaine depuis ses premiers jours, l…
The Oxford Handbook of Adorno
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Journal Article In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger Get access In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger. Metropolitan Books, 2021. 480 pages. $35.00 (hardcover). Martin Shuster Martin Shuster University of North Carolina at Charlotte [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
“Dig if you will the picture…”: New Television, Myth, Black Monday and the 1980s
“Dig if you will the picture…”: New Television, Myth, Black Monday and the 1980s
Cet essai se penche sur l’apparition récente des années 1980 comme cadre d’une grande partie des séries de la « nouvelle télévision ». Je soutiens que cette référence vise à exploiter et à présenter les années 1980 comme une sorte de milieu mythologique pour notre présente compréhension de soi. Comprendre ce point sur les années 1980 et la mythologie nous permet de situer certaines idées ontologiques et philosophiques concernant la nouvelle télév…
New Television in the University
This paper is inspired by Stanley Cavell’s paper, “Film in the University” (1976). It thinks about what role “new television” might play in the university curriculum. The analysis focuses on the temporality of new television, suggesting that because of its extended duration, new television can serve as a sort of spiritual exercise
Fleabag, Modernism, and New Television
This article reflects on the recent prominence of direct address—characters speaking directly to the camera—within new television. With particular reference to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag (BBC Three, 2016–19), the phenomenon of direct address is in this context situated amid the broader history of pictorial art, especially painting and the problem of theatricality first introduced by Denis Diderot in the eighteenth century and taken up in the …
How to Measure a World: A Philosophy of Judaism
Rorty and (the Politics of) Love
On the Importance of the World: Phenomenology in Maimonides'sGuide of the Perplexed
Television antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama
"Television antiheroines: women behaving badly in crime and prison drama." Journal of Gender Studies, 28(1), pp. 119–120
The Actual and the Rational: Hegel and Objective Spirit
Hannah Arendt on the evil of not being a person
This article presents Hannah Arendt's novel conception of evil, arguing that what animates and undergirds this conception is an understanding of human agency, of what it means to be a person at all. The banality of evil that Arendt theorizes is exactly the failure to become a person in the first place-it is, in short, the evil of being a nobody. For Arendt, this evil becomes extreme when a mass of such nobodies becomes organized by totalitarianis…
A Phenomenology of Home: Jean Améry on Homesickness
As the contemporary nation state order continues to produce genocide and destruction, and thereby refugees, and as the national and international landscape continues to see the existence of refugees as a political problem, Jean Améry’s 1966 essay “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” takes on a curious urgency. I say ‘curious’ because his own conclusions about the essay’s aims and accomplishments appear uncertain and oftentimes unclear (note how Am…
Adorno and Negative Theology
The Ordinariness and Absence of the World: Cavell’s Ontology of the Screen—Reading The World Viewed
Autonomy After Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity
Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy by Andrew Bowie (review)
Reviewed by: Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy by Andrew Bowie Martin Shuster Andrew Bowie. Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2013. 206pgs + x. It would not be too much to say that Andrew Bowie has written a tour-de-force. Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy is a book on Adorno that covers, in at least some detail, elements of almost all of Adorno’s thought, from dialectics to aesthetics to philosophy of action to philosophy of …
Humor as an Optics: Bergson and the Ethics of Humor
Although the ethics of humor is a relatively new field, it already seems to have achieved a consensus about ethics in general. In this paper, I implicitly (1) question the view of ethics that stands behind many discussions in the ethics of humor; I do this by explicitly (2) focusing on what has been a chief preoccupation in the ethics of humor: the evaluation of humor. Does the immoral content of a joke make it more or less humorous? Specifically…
Boyd and I Dug Coal Together”: Norms, Persons, and Being Justified in Justified
“Boyd and I Dug Coal Together”: Norms, Persons, and Being Justified in Justified Martin Shuster 1. Introduction Along with other recent shows (notably HBO’s True Blood, FX’s Sons of Anarchy, and AMC’s Breaking Bad), FX’s Justified portrays American locales generally ignored by television. These shows, which we can dub “red state shows,”1 give us a glimpse of American life beyond the confines of New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago—for the most part,…
Philosophy and New American TV Series
Philosophy and New American TV Series Paola Marrati and Martin Shuster The idea of organizing a workshop on “Philosophy and New American TV Series” came from the desire to understand why for so many of us certain TV series had suddenly become the object of endless passionate conversations. Few topics seemed to capture so much shared interest and curiosity, which in itself is remarkable if one considers that television productions had not exactly …
Internal Relations and the Possibility of Evil: On Cavell and Monstrosity
In this article, I examine Cavell’s understanding and deployment of the categories of ‘evil’ and the ‘monstrous’ in The Claim of Reason. Arguing that these notions cannot be understood apart from Cavell’s reliance on the notion of an ‘internal relation,’ I trace this notion to its Wittgensteinian roots. Ultimately, I show that Cavell’s view of evil allows us to navigate between two horns of a classic dilemma in thinking about evil: it allows us t…
German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (review)
Reviewed by: German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives Martin Shuster Espen Hammer, ed. German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2007. x + 339 pages. Espen Hammer has assembled an invaluable resource both for specialists working within German philosophy (particularly German Idealism) and for others interested in getting their feet wet with the varied and often impenetrable authors that get classed under the moniker of “Germ…
The Image of the Biblical Job, a History: Volume 3, Job in the Modern World (review)
Reviewed by: The Image of the Biblical Job, a History: Volume 3, Job in the Modern World Martin Shuster Stephen J. Vicchio. The Image of the Biblical Job, a History: Volume 3, Job in the Modern World. Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2006. 247 pages. This book, the final volume in a three-volume monograph, represents, as Stephen Vicchio tells us in his introduction, the culmination of more than thirty years of work on the Biblical Book of Job. The first two…
The Actual and the Rational: Hegel and Objective Spirit
A Phenomenology of Home: Jean Améry on Homesickness
As the contemporary nation state order continues to produce genocide and destruction, and thereby refugees, and as the national and international landscape continues to see the existence of refugees as a political problem, Jean Améry’s 1966 essay “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” takes on a curious urgency. I say ‘curious’ because his own conclusions about the essay’s aims and accomplishments appear uncertain and oftentimes unclear (note how Am…
Adorno and Negative Theology
Humor as an Optics: Bergson and the Ethics of Humor
Although the ethics of humor is a relatively new field, it already seems to have achieved a consensus about ethics in general. In this paper, I implicitly (1) question the view of ethics that stands behind many discussions in the ethics of humor; I do this by explicitly (2) focusing on what has been a chief preoccupation in the ethics of humor: the evaluation of humor. Does the immoral content of a joke make it more or less humorous? Specifically…
Fleabag, Modernism, and New Television
This article reflects on the recent prominence of direct address—characters speaking directly to the camera—within new television. With particular reference to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag (BBC Three, 2016–19), the phenomenon of direct address is in this context situated amid the broader history of pictorial art, especially painting and the problem of theatricality first introduced by Denis Diderot in the eighteenth century and taken up in the …
How to Measure a World: A Philosophy of Judaism
Hannah Arendt on the evil of not being a person
This article presents Hannah Arendt's novel conception of evil, arguing that what animates and undergirds this conception is an understanding of human agency, of what it means to be a person at all. The banality of evil that Arendt theorizes is exactly the failure to become a person in the first place-it is, in short, the evil of being a nobody. For Arendt, this evil becomes extreme when a mass of such nobodies becomes organized by totalitarianis…
The Ordinariness and Absence of the World: Cavell’s Ontology of the Screen—Reading The World Viewed
The Image of the Biblical Job, a History: Volume 3, Job in the Modern World (review)
Reviewed by: The Image of the Biblical Job, a History: Volume 3, Job in the Modern World Martin Shuster Stephen J. Vicchio. The Image of the Biblical Job, a History: Volume 3, Job in the Modern World. Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2006. 247 pages. This book, the final volume in a three-volume monograph, represents, as Stephen Vicchio tells us in his introduction, the culmination of more than thirty years of work on the Biblical Book of Job. The first two…
German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (review)
Reviewed by: German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives Martin Shuster Espen Hammer, ed. German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2007. x + 339 pages. Espen Hammer has assembled an invaluable resource both for specialists working within German philosophy (particularly German Idealism) and for others interested in getting their feet wet with the varied and often impenetrable authors that get classed under the moniker of “Germ…
Internal Relations and the Possibility of Evil: On Cavell and Monstrosity
In this article, I examine Cavell’s understanding and deployment of the categories of ‘evil’ and the ‘monstrous’ in The Claim of Reason. Arguing that these notions cannot be understood apart from Cavell’s reliance on the notion of an ‘internal relation,’ I trace this notion to its Wittgensteinian roots. Ultimately, I show that Cavell’s view of evil allows us to navigate between two horns of a classic dilemma in thinking about evil: it allows us t…
Humor as an Optics: Bergson and the Ethics of Humor
Although the ethics of humor is a relatively new field, it already seems to have achieved a consensus about ethics in general. In this paper, I implicitly (1) question the view of ethics that stands behind many discussions in the ethics of humor; I do this by explicitly (2) focusing on what has been a chief preoccupation in the ethics of humor: the evaluation of humor. Does the immoral content of a joke make it more or less humorous? Specifically…
Boyd and I Dug Coal Together”: Norms, Persons, and Being Justified in Justified
“Boyd and I Dug Coal Together”: Norms, Persons, and Being Justified in Justified Martin Shuster 1. Introduction Along with other recent shows (notably HBO’s True Blood, FX’s Sons of Anarchy, and AMC’s Breaking Bad), FX’s Justified portrays American locales generally ignored by television. These shows, which we can dub “red state shows,”1 give us a glimpse of American life beyond the confines of New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago—for the most part,…
Philosophy and New American TV Series
Philosophy and New American TV Series Paola Marrati and Martin Shuster The idea of organizing a workshop on “Philosophy and New American TV Series” came from the desire to understand why for so many of us certain TV series had suddenly become the object of endless passionate conversations. Few topics seemed to capture so much shared interest and curiosity, which in itself is remarkable if one considers that television productions had not exactly …
Autonomy After Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity
Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy by Andrew Bowie (review)
Reviewed by: Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy by Andrew Bowie Martin Shuster Andrew Bowie. Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2013. 206pgs + x. It would not be too much to say that Andrew Bowie has written a tour-de-force. Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy is a book on Adorno that covers, in at least some detail, elements of almost all of Adorno’s thought, from dialectics to aesthetics to philosophy of action to philosophy of …
The Ordinariness and Absence of the World: Cavell’s Ontology of the Screen—Reading The World Viewed
Adorno and Negative Theology
A Phenomenology of Home: Jean Améry on Homesickness
As the contemporary nation state order continues to produce genocide and destruction, and thereby refugees, and as the national and international landscape continues to see the existence of refugees as a political problem, Jean Améry’s 1966 essay “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” takes on a curious urgency. I say ‘curious’ because his own conclusions about the essay’s aims and accomplishments appear uncertain and oftentimes unclear (note how Am…
The Actual and the Rational: Hegel and Objective Spirit
Hannah Arendt on the evil of not being a person
This article presents Hannah Arendt's novel conception of evil, arguing that what animates and undergirds this conception is an understanding of human agency, of what it means to be a person at all. The banality of evil that Arendt theorizes is exactly the failure to become a person in the first place-it is, in short, the evil of being a nobody. For Arendt, this evil becomes extreme when a mass of such nobodies becomes organized by totalitarianis…
Rorty and (the Politics of) Love
On the Importance of the World: Phenomenology in Maimonides'sGuide of the Perplexed
Television antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama
"Television antiheroines: women behaving badly in crime and prison drama." Journal of Gender Studies, 28(1), pp. 119–120
New Television in the University
This paper is inspired by Stanley Cavell’s paper, “Film in the University” (1976). It thinks about what role “new television” might play in the university curriculum. The analysis focuses on the temporality of new television, suggesting that because of its extended duration, new television can serve as a sort of spiritual exercise
Fleabag, Modernism, and New Television
This article reflects on the recent prominence of direct address—characters speaking directly to the camera—within new television. With particular reference to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag (BBC Three, 2016–19), the phenomenon of direct address is in this context situated amid the broader history of pictorial art, especially painting and the problem of theatricality first introduced by Denis Diderot in the eighteenth century and taken up in the …
How to Measure a World: A Philosophy of Judaism
“Dig if you will the picture…”: New Television, Myth, Black Monday and the 1980s
“Dig if you will the picture…”: New Television, Myth, Black Monday and the 1980s
Cet essai se penche sur l’apparition récente des années 1980 comme cadre d’une grande partie des séries de la « nouvelle télévision ». Je soutiens que cette référence vise à exploiter et à présenter les années 1980 comme une sorte de milieu mythologique pour notre présente compréhension de soi. Comprendre ce point sur les années 1980 et la mythologie nous permet de situer certaines idées ontologiques et philosophiques concernant la nouvelle télév…
The Oxford Handbook of Adorno
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Journal Article In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger Get access In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. By Jeffrey Veidlinger. Metropolitan Books, 2021. 480 pages. $35.00 (hardcover). Martin Shuster Martin Shuster University of North Carolina at Charlotte [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: O…
La persistance du western: Yellowstone, la Nouvelle télévision et l’histoire américaine
Cet essai explore les façons dont le western a trouvé une nouvelle vie dans la « Nouvelle télévision », en particulier dans le néo western Yellowstone. L’article s’intéresse à l’importance du western à la fois pour le médium qu’est la Nouvelle télévision et pour la construction de l’identité et de l’histoire américaines. Je soutiens que si le western a joué un rôle central dans la construction de l’identité américaine depuis ses premiers jours, l…
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