Marci Shore
Biographic Data
| ID | 515566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marci Shore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marci |
| FAMILY NAME | Shore |
| SIGNATURE | SHORE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wanderings at Twilight
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage
This Is What Evil Looks Like
This essay draws on phenomenological and psychoanalytical insights to explore, comparatively, manifestations of evil during the twentieth-century totalitarianism and the post-truth present. The regimes of Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Alexander Lukashenko provide contemporary examples. Special attention is paid to the genre of performative confession in Stalinist times and in the present. Authors mentioned include: Anne Applebaum, Hannah Aren…
With Eyes Wide Open
Austrian writer Martin Pollack investigates the Nazi past of his father, who died before he could ever know his son. The position the author takes is implicitly this one: we are responsible not for atoning for the sins of others; we are responsible for facing the truth in the present. The distinction, perhaps subtle, is not at all trivial
The Ukrainian Night
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to m…
The Sacred and the Myth
This essay juxtaposes two thinkers: the French literary critic and philosopher René Girard (1923–2015) and the Czech playwright, essayist, and dissident Václav Havel (1936–2011). In particular, the text examines Havel’s 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless through the lens of Girard’s structuralist model of mimetic desire, violent sacrifice, and a cultural order sustained by prohibition, ritual, and myth. Arguing against the French structural an…
Jews and Cosmopolitanism
Isaac Deutscher, raised in his youth to be a Talmudic scholar, instead became a communist. In 1958, he addressed the World Jewish Congress on the topic of “The Non-Jewish Jew.” There was a Jewish tradition – Deutscher began, citing Spinoza and Marx, Freud and Luxemburg and Trotsky – of breaking with Jewish tradition. Jews had always been restless and rootless, always lived on the borders of various heritages, languages, and cultures, at once in a…
The Taste of Ashes
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
The Spring that Passed
(The End of) Communism as a Generational History
This article explores communism – including its pre-history and aftermath – as a generational history. The structure is diachronic and largely biographical. Attention is paid to the roles of milieu, the Second World War, generational cleavages and a Hegelian sense of time. Nineteen sixty-eight is a turning point, the moment when Marxism as belief was decoupled from communism as practice. The arrival of Soviet tanks in Prague meant a certain kind …
Interrogating the Real
Book Review| January 01 2008 Interrogating the Real Slavoj Žižek, Interrogating the Real, ed. Rex Butler and Scott Stephens (London: Continuum, 2005), 384 pp. Marci Shore Marci Shore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 159–160. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-046 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marci Shore; Interrogating …
Tevye's Daughters
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An Infamous past
Caviar and Ashes
Children of the Revolution
In the late 1940s, Jakub Berman, one of a triumvirate of Stalinist leaders in postwar Poland, found himself in Russia dancing with Stalin's foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. They were dancing to Georgian music, because Stalin especially liked Georgian music, although he tended not to dance very much himself. "Surely," asked Jakub's interviewer, "you mean with Mrs. Molotov?" But no, Jakub explained, Mrs. Molotov was not there, she had already …
Czysto Babski
Czysto Babski
Engineering in the Age of Innocence
And so it happened that in February 1948 the Communists took power not in bloodshed and violence, but to the cheers of about half the population. And please note: the half that cheered was the more dynamic, the more intelligent, the better half. Milan Kundera
Caviar and Ashes
Children of the Revolution
In the late 1940s, Jakub Berman, one of a triumvirate of Stalinist leaders in postwar Poland, found himself in Russia dancing with Stalin's foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. They were dancing to Georgian music, because Stalin especially liked Georgian music, although he tended not to dance very much himself. "Surely," asked Jakub's interviewer, "you mean with Mrs. Molotov?" But no, Jakub explained, Mrs. Molotov was not there, she had already …
Engineering in the Age of Innocence
And so it happened that in February 1948 the Communists took power not in bloodshed and violence, but to the cheers of about half the population. And please note: the half that cheered was the more dynamic, the more intelligent, the better half. Milan Kundera
Jews and Cosmopolitanism
Isaac Deutscher, raised in his youth to be a Talmudic scholar, instead became a communist. In 1958, he addressed the World Jewish Congress on the topic of “The Non-Jewish Jew.” There was a Jewish tradition – Deutscher began, citing Spinoza and Marx, Freud and Luxemburg and Trotsky – of breaking with Jewish tradition. Jews had always been restless and rootless, always lived on the borders of various heritages, languages, and cultures, at once in a…
Engineering in the Age of Innocence
And so it happened that in February 1948 the Communists took power not in bloodshed and violence, but to the cheers of about half the population. And please note: the half that cheered was the more dynamic, the more intelligent, the better half. Milan Kundera
Czysto Babski
Czysto Babski
Children of the Revolution
In the late 1940s, Jakub Berman, one of a triumvirate of Stalinist leaders in postwar Poland, found himself in Russia dancing with Stalin's foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. They were dancing to Georgian music, because Stalin especially liked Georgian music, although he tended not to dance very much himself. "Surely," asked Jakub's interviewer, "you mean with Mrs. Molotov?" But no, Jakub explained, Mrs. Molotov was not there, she had already …
An Infamous past
Caviar and Ashes
Tevye's Daughters
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Interrogating the Real
Book Review| January 01 2008 Interrogating the Real Slavoj Žižek, Interrogating the Real, ed. Rex Butler and Scott Stephens (London: Continuum, 2005), 384 pp. Marci Shore Marci Shore Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 159–160. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-046 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marci Shore; Interrogating …
(The End of) Communism as a Generational History
This article explores communism – including its pre-history and aftermath – as a generational history. The structure is diachronic and largely biographical. Attention is paid to the roles of milieu, the Second World War, generational cleavages and a Hegelian sense of time. Nineteen sixty-eight is a turning point, the moment when Marxism as belief was decoupled from communism as practice. The arrival of Soviet tanks in Prague meant a certain kind …
The Spring that Passed
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
The Taste of Ashes
Jews and Cosmopolitanism
Isaac Deutscher, raised in his youth to be a Talmudic scholar, instead became a communist. In 1958, he addressed the World Jewish Congress on the topic of “The Non-Jewish Jew.” There was a Jewish tradition – Deutscher began, citing Spinoza and Marx, Freud and Luxemburg and Trotsky – of breaking with Jewish tradition. Jews had always been restless and rootless, always lived on the borders of various heritages, languages, and cultures, at once in a…
The Sacred and the Myth
This essay juxtaposes two thinkers: the French literary critic and philosopher René Girard (1923–2015) and the Czech playwright, essayist, and dissident Václav Havel (1936–2011). In particular, the text examines Havel’s 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless through the lens of Girard’s structuralist model of mimetic desire, violent sacrifice, and a cultural order sustained by prohibition, ritual, and myth. Arguing against the French structural an…
The Ukrainian Night
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to m…
With Eyes Wide Open
Austrian writer Martin Pollack investigates the Nazi past of his father, who died before he could ever know his son. The position the author takes is implicitly this one: we are responsible not for atoning for the sins of others; we are responsible for facing the truth in the present. The distinction, perhaps subtle, is not at all trivial
Wanderings at Twilight
The World and All That It Holds, and The Orphanage
This Is What Evil Looks Like
This essay draws on phenomenological and psychoanalytical insights to explore, comparatively, manifestations of evil during the twentieth-century totalitarianism and the post-truth present. The regimes of Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Alexander Lukashenko provide contemporary examples. Special attention is paid to the genre of performative confession in Stalinist times and in the present. Authors mentioned include: Anne Applebaum, Hannah Aren…
Political science (13 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (12 works) · History (12 works) · Art (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Literature (6 works)