Daniel Just
Biographic Data
| ID | 975332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Just |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Just |
| SIGNATURE | JUST D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bilkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2439-5839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Barthes’s Perversions: Writing Practices and Neutral Life
In his final period, Roland Barthes desires a new form of life that would enable him to be more attentive to the present moment and to time and change. In this period, since he wants to keep writing, he is also looking for a new form of writing—neutral writing as a counterpart to neutral living. This study examines Barthes’s late penchant for neutrality against the background of his intellectual evolution. It argues that in his final period, Bart…
Bohumil Hrabal and the Poetics of Aging
Bohumil Hrabal and the Poetics of Aging Daniel Just Aging in Modern Fictions Modern literary fictions offer a wide range of representations of aging, from vitalism to nihilism. For example, in Doris Lessing's "The Grandmothers" the two female protagonists retain their vitality and zest for life as they grow older. In Gabriel García Márquez's The General in the Labyrinth the elderly Simón Bolívar has lost most of his vitality, but he still reflect…
The Invention of Work in Modernity: Hegel, Marx, and Weber
In the modern era, a wide range of human activities has been redefined as work. This essay traces a genealogy of the modern conception of work, from early Protestant ethic of work as worship of God, through secularization of this ethic and the emergence of the idea of progress, to the later model of work as personal duty and source of stability. Analyzing Hegel, Marx, and Weber's interpretations of the growing centrality of work in the modern epo…
A Biopolitics of Immaterial Labor
This article examines Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s and Paolo Virno’s use of Michel Foucault’s notions of ‘biopower’ and ‘biopolitics’ with respect to today’s hegemony of immaterial labor, i.e. work without an end product. In spite of relatively infrequent references to work, Foucault formulates these notions in markedly economic terms: biopower is inextricable from work because, unlike punitive power that represses and disciplines life, it c…
Milan Kundera and the Poetics of Novelistic Truth
While not all literary fictions teach us valuable truths about life and the world, this expectation is what makes most of us read them. Literary texts communicate their truths in various ways, but what all of them have in common is that their truths are irreducible to unequivocal statements and propositions. The fact that narrative operation often implies a poetics of truth telling makes literary narratives-and complex novels, above all-a privile…
Art and everydayness: Popular culture and daily life in the communist Czechoslovakia
This article analyzes the interaction between art and practices of everyday life in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. Discussing various forms of adaptations to the politically repressive system – from photography and film to social activities such as ‘cottage homemaking’ and ‘cabining’ – the author describes ways in which popular culture under communism resisted the state-induced drive to modernize which, as a political tool, was …
From Guilt to Shame: Albert Camus and Literature's Ethical Response to Politics
From Guilt to Shame:Albert Camus and Literature's Ethical Response to Politics Daniel Just (bio) The concept of shame in Western discourse has often carried a lesser moral significance than guilt. Unlike guilt that pertains to one's actions and intentions, shame relates to one's affects and emotions. While guilt is of an essentially mimetic and identificatory nature, the logic that underlies shame is of a specular kind: the experience of shame de…
The Modern Novel from a Sociological Perspective: Towards a Strategic Use of the Notion of Genres
In his book Puissances du roman (1942), a text described in its preface as a sociological study of the novel, Roger Caillois examines the link between the novel and modern society and concludes, with the keenness characteristic of the politically committed intellectuals of the time, that the type of sociality that gives rise to the genre of the novel is fundamentally fragmented. As Georg Lukacs and others before him, also Caillois argues that the…
Between Narrative Paradigms: Joseph Conrad and the Shift from Realism to Modernism from a Genre Perspective
Against the Novel\-\-Meaning and History in Roland Barthes's Le degré zéro de l'écriture
With a plan to trace the relationship between a purely formal history of writing and the deeper levels of history, Barthes's project in Le degré zéro de l'écriture seems to have failed because it remains unclear what degré zéro historically represents. Drawing on Le degré zéro de l'écriture, as well as Barthes's later texts on film and photography, this essay examines the historical and the political aspects of the theory of "exhausted art" that …
A Biopolitics of Immaterial Labor
This article examines Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s and Paolo Virno’s use of Michel Foucault’s notions of ‘biopower’ and ‘biopolitics’ with respect to today’s hegemony of immaterial labor, i.e. work without an end product. In spite of relatively infrequent references to work, Foucault formulates these notions in markedly economic terms: biopower is inextricable from work because, unlike punitive power that represses and disciplines life, it c…
The Invention of Work in Modernity: Hegel, Marx, and Weber
In the modern era, a wide range of human activities has been redefined as work. This essay traces a genealogy of the modern conception of work, from early Protestant ethic of work as worship of God, through secularization of this ethic and the emergence of the idea of progress, to the later model of work as personal duty and source of stability. Analyzing Hegel, Marx, and Weber's interpretations of the growing centrality of work in the modern epo…
Milan Kundera and the Poetics of Novelistic Truth
While not all literary fictions teach us valuable truths about life and the world, this expectation is what makes most of us read them. Literary texts communicate their truths in various ways, but what all of them have in common is that their truths are irreducible to unequivocal statements and propositions. The fact that narrative operation often implies a poetics of truth telling makes literary narratives-and complex novels, above all-a privile…
Against the Novel\-\-Meaning and History in Roland Barthes's Le degré zéro de l'écriture
With a plan to trace the relationship between a purely formal history of writing and the deeper levels of history, Barthes's project in Le degré zéro de l'écriture seems to have failed because it remains unclear what degré zéro historically represents. Drawing on Le degré zéro de l'écriture, as well as Barthes's later texts on film and photography, this essay examines the historical and the political aspects of the theory of "exhausted art" that …
The Modern Novel from a Sociological Perspective: Towards a Strategic Use of the Notion of Genres
In his book Puissances du roman (1942), a text described in its preface as a sociological study of the novel, Roger Caillois examines the link between the novel and modern society and concludes, with the keenness characteristic of the politically committed intellectuals of the time, that the type of sociality that gives rise to the genre of the novel is fundamentally fragmented. As Georg Lukacs and others before him, also Caillois argues that the…
Between Narrative Paradigms: Joseph Conrad and the Shift from Realism to Modernism from a Genre Perspective
From Guilt to Shame: Albert Camus and Literature's Ethical Response to Politics
From Guilt to Shame:Albert Camus and Literature's Ethical Response to Politics Daniel Just (bio) The concept of shame in Western discourse has often carried a lesser moral significance than guilt. Unlike guilt that pertains to one's actions and intentions, shame relates to one's affects and emotions. While guilt is of an essentially mimetic and identificatory nature, the logic that underlies shame is of a specular kind: the experience of shame de…
Art and everydayness: Popular culture and daily life in the communist Czechoslovakia
This article analyzes the interaction between art and practices of everyday life in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. Discussing various forms of adaptations to the politically repressive system – from photography and film to social activities such as ‘cottage homemaking’ and ‘cabining’ – the author describes ways in which popular culture under communism resisted the state-induced drive to modernize which, as a political tool, was …
Milan Kundera and the Poetics of Novelistic Truth
While not all literary fictions teach us valuable truths about life and the world, this expectation is what makes most of us read them. Literary texts communicate their truths in various ways, but what all of them have in common is that their truths are irreducible to unequivocal statements and propositions. The fact that narrative operation often implies a poetics of truth telling makes literary narratives-and complex novels, above all-a privile…
A Biopolitics of Immaterial Labor
This article examines Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s and Paolo Virno’s use of Michel Foucault’s notions of ‘biopower’ and ‘biopolitics’ with respect to today’s hegemony of immaterial labor, i.e. work without an end product. In spite of relatively infrequent references to work, Foucault formulates these notions in markedly economic terms: biopower is inextricable from work because, unlike punitive power that represses and disciplines life, it c…
The Invention of Work in Modernity: Hegel, Marx, and Weber
In the modern era, a wide range of human activities has been redefined as work. This essay traces a genealogy of the modern conception of work, from early Protestant ethic of work as worship of God, through secularization of this ethic and the emergence of the idea of progress, to the later model of work as personal duty and source of stability. Analyzing Hegel, Marx, and Weber's interpretations of the growing centrality of work in the modern epo…
Bohumil Hrabal and the Poetics of Aging
Bohumil Hrabal and the Poetics of Aging Daniel Just Aging in Modern Fictions Modern literary fictions offer a wide range of representations of aging, from vitalism to nihilism. For example, in Doris Lessing's "The Grandmothers" the two female protagonists retain their vitality and zest for life as they grow older. In Gabriel García Márquez's The General in the Labyrinth the elderly Simón Bolívar has lost most of his vitality, but he still reflect…
Barthes’s Perversions: Writing Practices and Neutral Life
In his final period, Roland Barthes desires a new form of life that would enable him to be more attentive to the present moment and to time and change. In this period, since he wants to keep writing, he is also looking for a new form of writing—neutral writing as a counterpart to neutral living. This study examines Barthes’s late penchant for neutrality against the background of his intellectual evolution. It argues that in his final period, Bart…
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