Michael Bernard-Donals
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Bernard-Donals |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernard-Donals |
| SIGNATURE | BERNARD-DONALS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Higher Education
With higher education in a state of flux, it’s time to more clearly understand what flux—mobility—means for the work of faculty at colleges and universities. With threats to shared governance, tenure, and academic freedom representing one sort of change, what would it mean for faculty to lean into the vulnerability that they are experiencing? Mobility has consequences: one of them is the risk of harm; another is the potential to destabilize conce…
Academic Freedom and Institutional Violence
Academic freedom is typically understood as a means of protecting faculty rights against the violence—physical or intellectual—of the state or of the institution’s administration. This article argues that academic freedom may be seen as a form of violence, insofar as it is potentially threatening to the methodological and institutional stasis of colleges and universities
Academic Freedom’s Rhetorical “Gray Zone”
The tension between freedom of speech and academic freedom results from the contradiction between democracy and expertise, resulting in a rhetorical “gray zone” that stymies faculty appeals to due process and constitutional protection. It’s not so much that certain “uncivil” words and utterances cannot be said in this gray zone; it’s that such words, when said, require one’s ejection from the (academic) demos. In an examination of the case of Ste…
On Violence and Vulnerability in a Pandemic
Pandemics and plagues function rhetorically, by doing violence to the structures of discourse, sociality, hospitality, and mutual engagement that characterize ethical human interaction. They infect us, as rhetorical subjects, and reorient our capacity for engagement. The coronavirus's “novelty” renders it uncertain as to how long it will last or who will be infected next; the near-uniform response to it has been a forced distance of ourselves fro…
Jewish Rhetorics
The Politics of Responsibility
The Belated Witness
Book Review| January 01 2007 The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust SurvivalLevine, Michael G.Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating Traumas of Political ViolenceWeine, Stevan Michael Bernard-Donals Michael Bernard-Donals Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (3): 340–3…
Between Witness and Testimony
Bakhtin and Phenomenology
Gary Saul Morson's recent attempts to unify Bakhtin's oeuvre under single term prosaics seem at first glance a welcome change from industry's prevailing modus operandi. Rather than trying to understand Bakhtin's thinking as unitary from start to finish-treating terms like answerability' or dialogics2 as embryonic instances of entirety of Russian thinker's work-Morson sees Bakhtin's work as anti-theoretical and growing in stages. Morson's primary,…
The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do
Michael Bernard-Donals, The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do, Cultural Critique, No. 27 (Spring, 1994), pp. 61-87
Art and Answerability
Introduction: The Architectonics of Answerability (Michael Holquist) Art and Answerability (1919). Translation and notes by Vadim Liapunov (including material from the editors of the Russian edition, S. S. Averintsev and S. G. Bocharov) Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity (ca. 1920-1923). Translation and notes by Vadim Liapunov (including material from the editors of the Russian edition, S. S. Averintsev and S. G. Bocharov) Supplement: The Prob…
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Art and Answerability
Introduction: The Architectonics of Answerability (Michael Holquist) Art and Answerability (1919). Translation and notes by Vadim Liapunov (including material from the editors of the Russian edition, S. S. Averintsev and S. G. Bocharov) Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity (ca. 1920-1923). Translation and notes by Vadim Liapunov (including material from the editors of the Russian edition, S. S. Averintsev and S. G. Bocharov) Supplement: The Prob…
The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do
Michael Bernard-Donals, The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do, Cultural Critique, No. 27 (Spring, 1994), pp. 61-87
Bakhtin and Phenomenology
Gary Saul Morson's recent attempts to unify Bakhtin's oeuvre under single term prosaics seem at first glance a welcome change from industry's prevailing modus operandi. Rather than trying to understand Bakhtin's thinking as unitary from start to finish-treating terms like answerability' or dialogics2 as embryonic instances of entirety of Russian thinker's work-Morson sees Bakhtin's work as anti-theoretical and growing in stages. Morson's primary,…
Between Witness and Testimony
The Belated Witness
Book Review| January 01 2007 The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust SurvivalLevine, Michael G.Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating Traumas of Political ViolenceWeine, Stevan Michael Bernard-Donals Michael Bernard-Donals Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (3): 340–3…
The Politics of Responsibility
Jewish Rhetorics
On Violence and Vulnerability in a Pandemic
Pandemics and plagues function rhetorically, by doing violence to the structures of discourse, sociality, hospitality, and mutual engagement that characterize ethical human interaction. They infect us, as rhetorical subjects, and reorient our capacity for engagement. The coronavirus's “novelty” renders it uncertain as to how long it will last or who will be infected next; the near-uniform response to it has been a forced distance of ourselves fro…
Academic Freedom’s Rhetorical “Gray Zone”
The tension between freedom of speech and academic freedom results from the contradiction between democracy and expertise, resulting in a rhetorical “gray zone” that stymies faculty appeals to due process and constitutional protection. It’s not so much that certain “uncivil” words and utterances cannot be said in this gray zone; it’s that such words, when said, require one’s ejection from the (academic) demos. In an examination of the case of Ste…
Academic Freedom and Institutional Violence
Academic freedom is typically understood as a means of protecting faculty rights against the violence—physical or intellectual—of the state or of the institution’s administration. This article argues that academic freedom may be seen as a form of violence, insofar as it is potentially threatening to the methodological and institutional stasis of colleges and universities
Higher Education
With higher education in a state of flux, it’s time to more clearly understand what flux—mobility—means for the work of faculty at colleges and universities. With threats to shared governance, tenure, and academic freedom representing one sort of change, what would it mean for faculty to lean into the vulnerability that they are experiencing? Mobility has consequences: one of them is the risk of harm; another is the potential to destabilize conce…
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