Kurt Buhanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5811769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kurt Buhanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kurt |
| FAMILY NAME | Buhanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUHANAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A-voiding representation
This essay deals with the poetry of Paul Celan, particularly focusing on the event of appearing of the negative as that which a-voids representation. The key term here is “Eräugnis,” a term with important resonances between Celan’s poetry and the thought of Alain Badiou, whose evental philosophy centers on the void. Another immediate point of reference is Martin Heidegger, whose thought and language permeates Celan’s work, and it is likely from H…
Humboldt and the Monkeys
In this essay, I argue that the image of cannibalism in Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative operates as a multistable image, an ideologically charged biopicture. The argument proceeds through three stages: first, I contextualize the cannibal as a stock image in Western thought, one that Humboldt inherits even before his journey to South America. Second, I examine this over‐determined image, a veritable fixation in the European imaginary, …
Political Suicide in Hermann Hesse’s Weimar Novels
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Political Suicide in Hermann Hesse’s Weimar Novels
Humboldt and the Monkeys
In this essay, I argue that the image of cannibalism in Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative operates as a multistable image, an ideologically charged biopicture. The argument proceeds through three stages: first, I contextualize the cannibal as a stock image in Western thought, one that Humboldt inherits even before his journey to South America. Second, I examine this over‐determined image, a veritable fixation in the European imaginary, …
A-voiding representation
This essay deals with the poetry of Paul Celan, particularly focusing on the event of appearing of the negative as that which a-voids representation. The key term here is “Eräugnis,” a term with important resonances between Celan’s poetry and the thought of Alain Badiou, whose evental philosophy centers on the void. Another immediate point of reference is Martin Heidegger, whose thought and language permeates Celan’s work, and it is likely from H…
Art (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Alexander von Humboldt Studies (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Cannibalism (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work)