Gabriel Trop
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Trop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Trop |
| SIGNATURE | TROP G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6406-7448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cosmoerotics and Cosmoagonistics from Herder to Hölderlin
In key texts of eighteenth-century philosophy and poetry, distinct fields of symbolization imbue planetary-cosmological ways of knowing with affective charges, facilitating the ramification of cosmologies into practices, arts of living, and forms of habituation. Two dominant conceptual dynamics drive this transformation: cosmoerotics and cosmoagonistics. Cosmoerotics postulates erotic desire—in fusional semantics, attractions, linkages—as a mater…
The Aesthetics of Impotentiation in Tieck and Hölderlin
This article argues that the works of Ludwig Tieck—specifically the fairy tales collected in Phantasus—and the poems of Friedrich Hölderlin operate according to an aesthetics of impotentiation. Impotentiation designates the coexistence of seemingly opposed operations: on the one hand, the generation of forms that can be developed further in unexpected directions; and on the other hand, impotence, a condition whereby processes of emergence are bro…
The Ethics and Politics of Psychoanalysis as a Dynamic System
This article examines the political and ethical consequences of a specifically dynamic systems view of psychoanalysis and selfhood, arguing that a dynamic systems view entails an ethos, or a way of looking at the world. The article postulates the “thin” normativity, or the minimalist set of commitments involved in a dynamic systems account of selfhood. These minimal commitments provide a framework for exploring two ways in which politics and psyc…
Aesthetics and Politics in the Wake of Enlightenment
Jonathan Hess, scholar, teacher, and generous mentor in the fields of German Studies and Jewish Studies, suddenly passed away in April 2018 at the age of 52. This volume has been undertaken by some
Invisibility and Indexicality
This paper argues that Schiller’s theater develops a political semiosis organized around operations of indexicality, understood as the attempt to trace a figure back to its invisible conditions of genesis. This notion of indexicality linking visible form to invisible origin is developed in the Kallias-Briefe in reflections on technical form (technische Form) and acquires a distinctively political character in theatrical representation. A tension …
Alice Kuzniar. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism
The Fringe of Beings
The Fringe of Beings:The Poetic Thought of Else Lasker-Schüler Gabriel Trop (bio) I. Introduction Those who follow attentively the movements of Else Lasker-Schüler's creative work will invariably be drawn to borders, fringes, and seams as points of attraction.1 As one might expect, the border, the fringe, or the seam—each endowed with its specific set of associations and resonances—cannot account for the totality of her writing. An edge can never…
Goethe's Faust and the Absolute of Naturphilosophie
This article approaches the concept of the absolute operative in Goethe's Faust by taking its point of departure from Schelling's Naturphilosophie, which supersedes and embeds tragic subjectivity in an ontological dynamic that both grounds and exceeds the subjective. The essential operations of such an absolute manifest themselves in the tensions and inconsistencies generated by dynamic forces—attraction and repulsion, contraction and expansion—t…
Affirmative Disequilibrium
This article examines the emergence of discourses in the eighteenth century in which disequilibrium appears not as an aberration—a perturbation later attenuated by some future well-ordered state—but as a source of affirmation in and of itself. The article focuses on specific paradigmatic snapshots that ascribe a certain value to disequilibrium: William Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty, Schiller's Anmuth und Würde, Schelling's early philosophy of natu…
Statics, Mechanics, Dynamics
Since antiquity, equilibrium has been equated with stabilization. One still hears the resonance of being “well balanced” that remains attached to the concept in various contexts, whether in nutriti
Novalis and the Absolute of Attraction
In the opening fragment of Bluthenstaub, Novalis writes, “Wir suchen uberall das Unbedingte, und finden immer nur Dinge” (2: 413). The absolute, or that which is without condition and without limit, is first and foremost a point of attraction: a non-thing that organizes the relationship of the human being to things, to other human beings, indeed to the manifold world of differences. Any critical project that still considers it worthwhile to inqui…
Modal Revolutions
One of the many pathways of modernity travels along an intellectual trajectory that is increasingly skeptical of and hostile toward the concept of necessity, a concept that once played a dominant role in metaphysical and ontological thought from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. By the early twentieth century, the narrator of Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften would have us believe that the human being is endowed with two fundament…
The Fringe of Beings
The Fringe of Beings:The Poetic Thought of Else Lasker-Schüler Gabriel Trop (bio) I. Introduction Those who follow attentively the movements of Else Lasker-Schüler's creative work will invariably be drawn to borders, fringes, and seams as points of attraction.1 As one might expect, the border, the fringe, or the seam—each endowed with its specific set of associations and resonances—cannot account for the totality of her writing. An edge can never…
Modal Revolutions
One of the many pathways of modernity travels along an intellectual trajectory that is increasingly skeptical of and hostile toward the concept of necessity, a concept that once played a dominant role in metaphysical and ontological thought from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. By the early twentieth century, the narrator of Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften would have us believe that the human being is endowed with two fundament…
Novalis and the Absolute of Attraction
In the opening fragment of Bluthenstaub, Novalis writes, “Wir suchen uberall das Unbedingte, und finden immer nur Dinge” (2: 413). The absolute, or that which is without condition and without limit, is first and foremost a point of attraction: a non-thing that organizes the relationship of the human being to things, to other human beings, indeed to the manifold world of differences. Any critical project that still considers it worthwhile to inqui…
The Fringe of Beings
The Fringe of Beings:The Poetic Thought of Else Lasker-Schüler Gabriel Trop (bio) I. Introduction Those who follow attentively the movements of Else Lasker-Schüler's creative work will invariably be drawn to borders, fringes, and seams as points of attraction.1 As one might expect, the border, the fringe, or the seam—each endowed with its specific set of associations and resonances—cannot account for the totality of her writing. An edge can never…
Goethe's Faust and the Absolute of Naturphilosophie
This article approaches the concept of the absolute operative in Goethe's Faust by taking its point of departure from Schelling's Naturphilosophie, which supersedes and embeds tragic subjectivity in an ontological dynamic that both grounds and exceeds the subjective. The essential operations of such an absolute manifest themselves in the tensions and inconsistencies generated by dynamic forces—attraction and repulsion, contraction and expansion—t…
Affirmative Disequilibrium
This article examines the emergence of discourses in the eighteenth century in which disequilibrium appears not as an aberration—a perturbation later attenuated by some future well-ordered state—but as a source of affirmation in and of itself. The article focuses on specific paradigmatic snapshots that ascribe a certain value to disequilibrium: William Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty, Schiller's Anmuth und Würde, Schelling's early philosophy of natu…
Statics, Mechanics, Dynamics
Since antiquity, equilibrium has been equated with stabilization. One still hears the resonance of being “well balanced” that remains attached to the concept in various contexts, whether in nutriti
Alice Kuzniar. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism
The Ethics and Politics of Psychoanalysis as a Dynamic System
This article examines the political and ethical consequences of a specifically dynamic systems view of psychoanalysis and selfhood, arguing that a dynamic systems view entails an ethos, or a way of looking at the world. The article postulates the “thin” normativity, or the minimalist set of commitments involved in a dynamic systems account of selfhood. These minimal commitments provide a framework for exploring two ways in which politics and psyc…
Aesthetics and Politics in the Wake of Enlightenment
Jonathan Hess, scholar, teacher, and generous mentor in the fields of German Studies and Jewish Studies, suddenly passed away in April 2018 at the age of 52. This volume has been undertaken by some
Invisibility and Indexicality
This paper argues that Schiller’s theater develops a political semiosis organized around operations of indexicality, understood as the attempt to trace a figure back to its invisible conditions of genesis. This notion of indexicality linking visible form to invisible origin is developed in the Kallias-Briefe in reflections on technical form (technische Form) and acquires a distinctively political character in theatrical representation. A tension …
The Aesthetics of Impotentiation in Tieck and Hölderlin
This article argues that the works of Ludwig Tieck—specifically the fairy tales collected in Phantasus—and the poems of Friedrich Hölderlin operate according to an aesthetics of impotentiation. Impotentiation designates the coexistence of seemingly opposed operations: on the one hand, the generation of forms that can be developed further in unexpected directions; and on the other hand, impotence, a condition whereby processes of emergence are bro…
Cosmoerotics and Cosmoagonistics from Herder to Hölderlin
In key texts of eighteenth-century philosophy and poetry, distinct fields of symbolization imbue planetary-cosmological ways of knowing with affective charges, facilitating the ramification of cosmologies into practices, arts of living, and forms of habituation. Two dominant conceptual dynamics drive this transformation: cosmoerotics and cosmoagonistics. Cosmoerotics postulates erotic desire—in fusional semantics, attractions, linkages—as a mater…
Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Philosophy and Historical Thought (5 works) · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations (4 works) · Law (3 works)