Anne Emmanuelle Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 950524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Emmanuelle Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Emmanuelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris 8 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Politics of the Heart
The heart is not a political concept, and is hardly a philosophical one. Yet, Derrida invites us to think about the heart, or more exactly with and from the heart, when it comes to certain political questions. The heart, he says, is on the side of life. ‘My’ heart, he shows, is always the other(‘s), or rather, ‘my heart of the other’. When politics is a matter of ‘living together’, of the possibility or impossibility of doing so, as is the case i…
Topolitics of the Safe Space
This paper reflects on the political topology of "safe spaces" today and the logics of their advocacy by minoritized and oppressed groups. To do so, it draws on Derrida, a relentless thinker of aporetic topology. Safe spaces can be described as immunitary structures built or called upon against real and/or perceived threats, whose modes of defense, however, might well threaten the defeat of their purpose. A certain politics of immunity may turn i…
Reading and Its Discontents
This essay ponders over the dismissal of reading practices and theories that were linked to the modernist shift from ‘literature’ to ‘writing’ ( écriture) in the second half of the twentieth century. It provides an intellectual genealogy of the rise and fall of the writing/reading couple, before going on to consider the cultural effects – as well as the educational and institutional consequences in academia – of the challenge to literature’s ‘cul…
The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender
More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both "American" and "French," thus simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, she tr…
Live Body: An interview with Anne Emmanuelle Berger
Lenka Vrablikova: Focusing on the problem of corps, this special issue of parallax and the previous one – its other part – seek to explore how contemporary critical thinking can challenge preconcep
The Baltimore Effect: The Testimony of a Practitioner of Literary and Gender Studies
The Baltimore Effect:The Testimony of a Practitioner of Literary and Gender Studies Anne Emmanuelle Berger Translated by Jacob Levi I. State of Affairs Allow me to quickly set the scene for my contribution. For many years, I taught at Cornell University. Along with Yale and Irvine, Cornell was one of the centers for the instruction and diffusion of so-called "French thought," and more specifically, deconstruction. (Cornell's participation in this…
The Queer Body of MLF Literature
The emphasis on sexuality from a queer perspective has led to what is deemed to be a radical rethinking, and what is oftentimes also a reinventing, of sexuality's medium or element, namely the body. Looking back at literary writings produced in the 1970s by some of the women engaged in the French Women's Liberation Movement, and more specifically at the ways in which the body and bodies were at once celebrated, figured and dismantled in a number …
Gender Springtime in Paris: A Twenty-First-Century Tale of Seasons
From its founding, women's and gender studies developed along a transatlantic epistemological and geopolitical axis. An interdisciplinary field, it fostered difficult conversations among disciplines that had each developed its own conceptual language. Women's and gender studies is thus centrally concerned with crossing(s), whether crossing(s) functions as a political goal, a meta-metaphor for the field's variegated theoretical endeavor, or as the…
Politics of the Mother Tongue
Algeria in Other(s)' Languages: Toward a rethinking of Algeria's linguistic predicament
Le Banquet de Rimbaud. Recherches sur l'oralite
Algeria in Other(s)' Languages: Toward a rethinking of Algeria's linguistic predicament
Gender Springtime in Paris: A Twenty-First-Century Tale of Seasons
From its founding, women's and gender studies developed along a transatlantic epistemological and geopolitical axis. An interdisciplinary field, it fostered difficult conversations among disciplines that had each developed its own conceptual language. Women's and gender studies is thus centrally concerned with crossing(s), whether crossing(s) functions as a political goal, a meta-metaphor for the field's variegated theoretical endeavor, or as the…
Politics of the Mother Tongue
Le Banquet de Rimbaud. Recherches sur l'oralite
Algeria in Other(s)' Languages: Toward a rethinking of Algeria's linguistic predicament
Politics of the Mother Tongue
Gender Springtime in Paris: A Twenty-First-Century Tale of Seasons
From its founding, women's and gender studies developed along a transatlantic epistemological and geopolitical axis. An interdisciplinary field, it fostered difficult conversations among disciplines that had each developed its own conceptual language. Women's and gender studies is thus centrally concerned with crossing(s), whether crossing(s) functions as a political goal, a meta-metaphor for the field's variegated theoretical endeavor, or as the…
The Queer Body of MLF Literature
The emphasis on sexuality from a queer perspective has led to what is deemed to be a radical rethinking, and what is oftentimes also a reinventing, of sexuality's medium or element, namely the body. Looking back at literary writings produced in the 1970s by some of the women engaged in the French Women's Liberation Movement, and more specifically at the ways in which the body and bodies were at once celebrated, figured and dismantled in a number …
Live Body: An interview with Anne Emmanuelle Berger
Lenka Vrablikova: Focusing on the problem of corps, this special issue of parallax and the previous one – its other part – seek to explore how contemporary critical thinking can challenge preconcep
The Baltimore Effect: The Testimony of a Practitioner of Literary and Gender Studies
The Baltimore Effect:The Testimony of a Practitioner of Literary and Gender Studies Anne Emmanuelle Berger Translated by Jacob Levi I. State of Affairs Allow me to quickly set the scene for my contribution. For many years, I taught at Cornell University. Along with Yale and Irvine, Cornell was one of the centers for the instruction and diffusion of so-called "French thought," and more specifically, deconstruction. (Cornell's participation in this…
The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender
More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both "American" and "French," thus simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, she tr…
Reading and Its Discontents
This essay ponders over the dismissal of reading practices and theories that were linked to the modernist shift from ‘literature’ to ‘writing’ ( écriture) in the second half of the twentieth century. It provides an intellectual genealogy of the rise and fall of the writing/reading couple, before going on to consider the cultural effects – as well as the educational and institutional consequences in academia – of the challenge to literature’s ‘cul…
Topolitics of the Safe Space
This paper reflects on the political topology of "safe spaces" today and the logics of their advocacy by minoritized and oppressed groups. To do so, it draws on Derrida, a relentless thinker of aporetic topology. Safe spaces can be described as immunitary structures built or called upon against real and/or perceived threats, whose modes of defense, however, might well threaten the defeat of their purpose. A certain politics of immunity may turn i…
Politics of the Heart
The heart is not a political concept, and is hardly a philosophical one. Yet, Derrida invites us to think about the heart, or more exactly with and from the heart, when it comes to certain political questions. The heart, he says, is on the side of life. ‘My’ heart, he shows, is always the other(‘s), or rather, ‘my heart of the other’. When politics is a matter of ‘living together’, of the possibility or impossibility of doing so, as is the case i…
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works)