Ben Beitler
Biographic Data
| ID | 764667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Beitler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Beitler |
| SIGNATURE | BEN BEITLER |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Robert Bresson's bedeviled environmentalism
This article contextualizes Robert Bresson's 1977 film Le diable probablement within environmental discourses circulating at the time of its release. Historians of this period have shown how the French state and adjacent actors "invented" the environment in the late 1960s and early 1970s by constituting social conflicts related to nature's destruction as objects of technocratic power. Environmentalism, in this historiographical paradigm, names a …
An eye more penetrating than other men's
This essay presents the Recherche's narrator as an expert in a world of experts. Considering previous scholarship on the sociological knowledge present in Proust's novel, I imagine the pursuit of this knowledge as characterizing its narrator, distinguishing him from the other specialists who populate the pages of his récit. Drawing on the work of Gil Eyal, I read this récit as displaying a marked attention to the 'networks of expertise' in which …
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An eye more penetrating than other men's
This essay presents the Recherche's narrator as an expert in a world of experts. Considering previous scholarship on the sociological knowledge present in Proust's novel, I imagine the pursuit of this knowledge as characterizing its narrator, distinguishing him from the other specialists who populate the pages of his récit. Drawing on the work of Gil Eyal, I read this récit as displaying a marked attention to the 'networks of expertise' in which …
Robert Bresson's bedeviled environmentalism
This article contextualizes Robert Bresson's 1977 film Le diable probablement within environmental discourses circulating at the time of its release. Historians of this period have shown how the French state and adjacent actors "invented" the environment in the late 1960s and early 1970s by constituting social conflicts related to nature's destruction as objects of technocratic power. Environmentalism, in this historiographical paradigm, names a …
Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Environmental ethics (1 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (1 works) · Environmentalism (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (1 works) · French Literature and Criticism (1 works)