Stephen D Gingerich
Biographic Data
| ID | 987104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Gingerich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gingerich |
| SIGNATURE | GINGERICH S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Servir de Nada: Ana María Matute's and Georges Bataille's Literatures of Infantile Violence
Research Article| July 01 2020 “No Servir de Nada”: Ana María Matute’s and Georges Bataille’s Literatures of Infantile Violence Stephen D. Gingerich Stephen D. Gingerich Cleveland State University, Ohio Stephen Gingerich is an Associate Professor in Cleveland State University’s Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His work on literature and philosophy from Spain and Latin America—including Juan Benet, José María Merino, Borges…
Los abismos del cainismo: La sima de José María Merino
Los abismos del cainismo:La sima de José María Merino Stephen D. Gingerich Cuando José María Merino publicó La sima en 2009, los reseñistas de la novela estuvieron de acuerdo que en ella Merino afirma el cainismo español. Para el crítico anónimo de El Mundo, la novela es “una reflexión sobre la ‘manía fratricida’ de España,” dicho como si se pudiera dar por sentado que tal manía existiera (“La sima”). J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip la llama una “pesquisa” …
Ortega: Secrecy and the World
Research Article| November 01 2014 Ortega: Secrecy and the World Stephen D. Gingerich Stephen D. Gingerich Cleveland State University, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2014) 14 (3): 49-74. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.3.0049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen D. Gingerich; Ortega: Secrecy and the World.…
Europe’s Frenzy: European and Spanish Universality in María Zambrano
Europe’s FrenzyEuropean and Spanish Universality in María Zambrano Stephen D. Gingerich (bio) In his Vienna lecture of 1935, entitled “Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity,” Husserl acknowledges the widespread sense that Europe is undergoing a spiritual crisis: “The European nations are sick” (1970a, 270). Although physicians may be able to cure bodily ailments using their knowledge of the mechanisms of nature, there as yet exists no wi…
Note on Pornography
THE YEAR THAT THE ENGLISH POLICE NOISILY CLOSED AN EXHIBITION IN London, confiscating its paintings, D. H. Lawrence wrote a pamphlet that was edited in England and was entitled "Pornography and Obscenity." Shortly before his death, Lawrence continued his twenty-year struggle against the "grays," those responsible for the seizure of complete editions of some of his works, and those who had been attacked by the "gray disease" which, according to hi…
Culture and Morality
THE JOURNAL CICLON CONSIDERS IT AN INELUCTABLE DUTY TO PASS JUDGMENT on all cultural politics, whether of the State or private, which have to do with the situation of the artist in Cuban society. At a moment in which the life of the artist is becoming more precarious, not to say unsustainable, it is necessary to indicate the dangers which threaten his survival. Already around 1920, Jacques Maritain warned: "The modern world, which had promised th…
The Secularity of Jose Marti
JOSÉ MARTI WAS FOR ALL OF US THE ONLY ONE WHO MANAGED TO PENETRATE into the house of the alibi. The mystic state, the alibi, where the imagination can engender the event and every act is transformed into the mirror of enigmas. [End Page 66]
Origins
ORIGENESIS NOT INTERESTED IN FORMULATING A PROGRAM BUT RATHER IN firing shots from its own wake. Since we do not change with the seasons, we do not have to justify our chameleon skin with extended appeals. We are not interested in superficial mutations but rather in underlining the taking up of being. We want to situate ourselves near those forces of creation, all of strong birth, where the purity or impurity, the quality or disqualification of a…
The Flood
HAVANA WAS A CEMETERY THE NIGHT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST OF DECEMBER. Except for those who knew better (and I don't believe they were many), the rest of the capital did not suspect that Batista would flee that night. The expectation (without a doubt, it was an anxious night) was not the result of a presentiment, that is, a presupposition that the government "would be packing its bags," so much as, on the contrary, the result of questioning: "Would we …
Freud and Freud
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER FREUD'S BIRTH PSYCHOANALYSIS IS IN FULL bloom, enjoying ample credit for its achievements. The ill look at it as their last hope; doctors are making good money; the public, in general, approves of it. However, it is very probable that in a hundred years more the doctors of the future will not receive any benefit at all from psychoanalysis
After the Rare, Strangeness
IT WOULD BE IMMATURE TO AFFIRM THAT, LIKE AN OBSTACLE OR A JOKE, Cuban poetry has had to assimilate itself to the partial and demagogic solution of making an exfuturity out of tradition. Far from being able to utilize the delight of a potentialized memory, we have been obliged to use prophecy. However, prophecy's own impotence to penetrate a past which does not exist has burdened and pestered it with an irony which is resented more than it is ela…
Possible Images II
IN THE BLACK LAUNDRY THAT RIMBAUD LOCATED, RAINS (QUANTOS) TEND TO come. The measure is excessive, until it reaches—in the exercise of a meaning which is ungraspable but coexistent—a meaning which is extremely extracted for the associations of a verb, of a situation, of a relation, of intercommunication; between the dilated associations ruled by a meaning and a meaning that acts upon a precise, monstrous, simple, repeatable counterpoint. This bla…
Signs: The Other Disintegration
NEAR THE CRITICAL INDEX FINGER THAT POINTS TO THE LACK OF THE NATION'S imagination—a lack that is not definitive but the absence of a projection or an impulsion through more splendid zones—it is necessary to continually yield up forms that surpass this disintegration. If this pointing is essentially critical, its remedy will have to overflow with creation and images. That is to say, it will have to avoid falling into a crude Manichaeism of signal…
In the Essence of Styles
IN THE PROLOGUE TO KAFKA'S AMERIKA, VOGELMAN, AFTER HIS APPROPRIATE recollection of Dostoyevsky, cites J. S. Bach. The strangeness of this quote moves us. Eisenstein also moves us when he talks about the whiteness of Moby Dick. Taking these relationships as our point of departure, we name two essences: exactitude and infinity, which define for us the vulnerability of man in this world. Upon this foundation, upon the exact notion of the infinity o…
Story of the Sierra
A BURNING SUN PUNISHED THE FATIGUED TROOPS OF INFANTRY BATTALION 22 at noon on the 28th of June, 1958. I was attached as a company medical orderly to company N of the Early Strike Unit, and we left the plains of Providencia on the way to Santo Domingo, where the battalion of ex-Colonel Sánchez Mosquera had been encamped for many days. The man was a criminal and feared not only by the peasants of the area but by his own soldiers, who were daily wi…
Poetry as Fidelity
POETRY IS THE MIRROR OF LIFE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT IS ITSELF LIFE. IN the first dimension, it is that expressive plane where life becomes image. The poet does more than reflect things; he sees things already reflected in reality, already made into real images, as if his vision in certain moments had the faculty of surprising, in the heart of a beam, an unfolding which establishes a tension, a painful and strange tautness between the fleeting p…
The Old Man and the Brand-name
"AROUND MIDDAY YESTERDAY A FRIENDLY HOMAGE FOR ERNEST HEMINGWAY took place in the gardens of the Cervecería Modelo, in Cotorro. It was given by the Cuban cultural institutions for the great U.S. writer, author of The Old Man and the Sea and resident of Cuba for years."
From Origenes to Julian Orbon
WHEN WE CONFIRM THAT THE ARCHDEACON JOSAS SEEMS TO BE THE SHADOW of Perotinus, and that the corridors to arrive at the tower of Saint Gil are the conductus of the melismas in the School of Notre Dame, we understand that the powerful musician Julián Orbón has taken his start in the dear friendship of the proconsul Juliabro and in the ecumenical redondels of sound. He was at the same time, in what is created and what was discussed, in the severe va…
Possible Images I
DISTRESSED GHOST OF CONJECTURAL NOTHINGS, ANYONE WHO WAS BORN inside of poetry feels the continual weight of his unreality, his other reality. His testimony of not being, his witness to the innocent act of being born, continually jumps ship into a conception of the world as image. Image as an absolute, image that knows itself as an image, image as the last of all possible histories. The very fact of his carrying out in texts the indissoluble appr…
A Refutation of Vitier
(Reply to an article published Sunday, February 22, 1959, in the Sunday magazine of the daily El Mundo, and whose last part was to come out Sunday, March 8)
Cuba and Literature
I CONFESS THAT THE TITLE OF THIS PAPER IS AS UGLY AS AN UGLY TITLE CAN be. "Cuba and Literature" is a title lacking in brilliance; nevertheless, it expresses exactly the true relation that exists between my country and literature
A Clean State
READER, I GIVE YOU CICLON, THE NEW JOURNAL. WITH IT, WE WIPE THE SLATE clean with one stroke. Erasing Orígenes, which, as everyone knows, is currently no more than dead weight after ten years of effective service to culture in Cuba. Let it be stated at the outset, then, that Ciclón wipes away Orígenes with one stroke. As far as the Orígenes group is concerned, we need not repeat, a long time has passed since it was eaten by its own father, just l…
Culture and Anonymity: The Other Voice of Los pasos perdidos
OUR USE OF THE WORD CULTURE BETRAYS AN AMBIGUITY THAT, WE MIGHT SAY, belongs to us, to what we call our "culture." On the one hand we use it to refer to a communal unit defined variously by language, customs, politics, to some extent even geography or physiology. On the other hand, we use the word to refer to art, literature, and learning, to what Germans call "das Geistliche," as in Geisteswissenschaften, what we in the United States call the Li…
Possible Images I
DISTRESSED GHOST OF CONJECTURAL NOTHINGS, ANYONE WHO WAS BORN inside of poetry feels the continual weight of his unreality, his other reality. His testimony of not being, his witness to the innocent act of being born, continually jumps ship into a conception of the world as image. Image as an absolute, image that knows itself as an image, image as the last of all possible histories. The very fact of his carrying out in texts the indissoluble appr…
Culture and Anonymity: The Other Voice of Los pasos perdidos
OUR USE OF THE WORD CULTURE BETRAYS AN AMBIGUITY THAT, WE MIGHT SAY, belongs to us, to what we call our "culture." On the one hand we use it to refer to a communal unit defined variously by language, customs, politics, to some extent even geography or physiology. On the other hand, we use the word to refer to art, literature, and learning, to what Germans call "das Geistliche," as in Geisteswissenschaften, what we in the United States call the Li…
Culture and Anonymity: The Other Voice of Los pasos perdidos
OUR USE OF THE WORD CULTURE BETRAYS AN AMBIGUITY THAT, WE MIGHT SAY, belongs to us, to what we call our "culture." On the one hand we use it to refer to a communal unit defined variously by language, customs, politics, to some extent even geography or physiology. On the other hand, we use the word to refer to art, literature, and learning, to what Germans call "das Geistliche," as in Geisteswissenschaften, what we in the United States call the Li…
Note on Pornography
THE YEAR THAT THE ENGLISH POLICE NOISILY CLOSED AN EXHIBITION IN London, confiscating its paintings, D. H. Lawrence wrote a pamphlet that was edited in England and was entitled "Pornography and Obscenity." Shortly before his death, Lawrence continued his twenty-year struggle against the "grays," those responsible for the seizure of complete editions of some of his works, and those who had been attacked by the "gray disease" which, according to hi…
Culture and Morality
THE JOURNAL CICLON CONSIDERS IT AN INELUCTABLE DUTY TO PASS JUDGMENT on all cultural politics, whether of the State or private, which have to do with the situation of the artist in Cuban society. At a moment in which the life of the artist is becoming more precarious, not to say unsustainable, it is necessary to indicate the dangers which threaten his survival. Already around 1920, Jacques Maritain warned: "The modern world, which had promised th…
The Secularity of Jose Marti
JOSÉ MARTI WAS FOR ALL OF US THE ONLY ONE WHO MANAGED TO PENETRATE into the house of the alibi. The mystic state, the alibi, where the imagination can engender the event and every act is transformed into the mirror of enigmas. [End Page 66]
Origins
ORIGENESIS NOT INTERESTED IN FORMULATING A PROGRAM BUT RATHER IN firing shots from its own wake. Since we do not change with the seasons, we do not have to justify our chameleon skin with extended appeals. We are not interested in superficial mutations but rather in underlining the taking up of being. We want to situate ourselves near those forces of creation, all of strong birth, where the purity or impurity, the quality or disqualification of a…
The Flood
HAVANA WAS A CEMETERY THE NIGHT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST OF DECEMBER. Except for those who knew better (and I don't believe they were many), the rest of the capital did not suspect that Batista would flee that night. The expectation (without a doubt, it was an anxious night) was not the result of a presentiment, that is, a presupposition that the government "would be packing its bags," so much as, on the contrary, the result of questioning: "Would we …
Freud and Freud
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER FREUD'S BIRTH PSYCHOANALYSIS IS IN FULL bloom, enjoying ample credit for its achievements. The ill look at it as their last hope; doctors are making good money; the public, in general, approves of it. However, it is very probable that in a hundred years more the doctors of the future will not receive any benefit at all from psychoanalysis
After the Rare, Strangeness
IT WOULD BE IMMATURE TO AFFIRM THAT, LIKE AN OBSTACLE OR A JOKE, Cuban poetry has had to assimilate itself to the partial and demagogic solution of making an exfuturity out of tradition. Far from being able to utilize the delight of a potentialized memory, we have been obliged to use prophecy. However, prophecy's own impotence to penetrate a past which does not exist has burdened and pestered it with an irony which is resented more than it is ela…
Possible Images II
IN THE BLACK LAUNDRY THAT RIMBAUD LOCATED, RAINS (QUANTOS) TEND TO come. The measure is excessive, until it reaches—in the exercise of a meaning which is ungraspable but coexistent—a meaning which is extremely extracted for the associations of a verb, of a situation, of a relation, of intercommunication; between the dilated associations ruled by a meaning and a meaning that acts upon a precise, monstrous, simple, repeatable counterpoint. This bla…
Signs: The Other Disintegration
NEAR THE CRITICAL INDEX FINGER THAT POINTS TO THE LACK OF THE NATION'S imagination—a lack that is not definitive but the absence of a projection or an impulsion through more splendid zones—it is necessary to continually yield up forms that surpass this disintegration. If this pointing is essentially critical, its remedy will have to overflow with creation and images. That is to say, it will have to avoid falling into a crude Manichaeism of signal…
In the Essence of Styles
IN THE PROLOGUE TO KAFKA'S AMERIKA, VOGELMAN, AFTER HIS APPROPRIATE recollection of Dostoyevsky, cites J. S. Bach. The strangeness of this quote moves us. Eisenstein also moves us when he talks about the whiteness of Moby Dick. Taking these relationships as our point of departure, we name two essences: exactitude and infinity, which define for us the vulnerability of man in this world. Upon this foundation, upon the exact notion of the infinity o…
Story of the Sierra
A BURNING SUN PUNISHED THE FATIGUED TROOPS OF INFANTRY BATTALION 22 at noon on the 28th of June, 1958. I was attached as a company medical orderly to company N of the Early Strike Unit, and we left the plains of Providencia on the way to Santo Domingo, where the battalion of ex-Colonel Sánchez Mosquera had been encamped for many days. The man was a criminal and feared not only by the peasants of the area but by his own soldiers, who were daily wi…
Poetry as Fidelity
POETRY IS THE MIRROR OF LIFE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT IS ITSELF LIFE. IN the first dimension, it is that expressive plane where life becomes image. The poet does more than reflect things; he sees things already reflected in reality, already made into real images, as if his vision in certain moments had the faculty of surprising, in the heart of a beam, an unfolding which establishes a tension, a painful and strange tautness between the fleeting p…
The Old Man and the Brand-name
"AROUND MIDDAY YESTERDAY A FRIENDLY HOMAGE FOR ERNEST HEMINGWAY took place in the gardens of the Cervecería Modelo, in Cotorro. It was given by the Cuban cultural institutions for the great U.S. writer, author of The Old Man and the Sea and resident of Cuba for years."
From Origenes to Julian Orbon
WHEN WE CONFIRM THAT THE ARCHDEACON JOSAS SEEMS TO BE THE SHADOW of Perotinus, and that the corridors to arrive at the tower of Saint Gil are the conductus of the melismas in the School of Notre Dame, we understand that the powerful musician Julián Orbón has taken his start in the dear friendship of the proconsul Juliabro and in the ecumenical redondels of sound. He was at the same time, in what is created and what was discussed, in the severe va…
Possible Images I
DISTRESSED GHOST OF CONJECTURAL NOTHINGS, ANYONE WHO WAS BORN inside of poetry feels the continual weight of his unreality, his other reality. His testimony of not being, his witness to the innocent act of being born, continually jumps ship into a conception of the world as image. Image as an absolute, image that knows itself as an image, image as the last of all possible histories. The very fact of his carrying out in texts the indissoluble appr…
A Refutation of Vitier
(Reply to an article published Sunday, February 22, 1959, in the Sunday magazine of the daily El Mundo, and whose last part was to come out Sunday, March 8)
Cuba and Literature
I CONFESS THAT THE TITLE OF THIS PAPER IS AS UGLY AS AN UGLY TITLE CAN be. "Cuba and Literature" is a title lacking in brilliance; nevertheless, it expresses exactly the true relation that exists between my country and literature
A Clean State
READER, I GIVE YOU CICLON, THE NEW JOURNAL. WITH IT, WE WIPE THE SLATE clean with one stroke. Erasing Orígenes, which, as everyone knows, is currently no more than dead weight after ten years of effective service to culture in Cuba. Let it be stated at the outset, then, that Ciclón wipes away Orígenes with one stroke. As far as the Orígenes group is concerned, we need not repeat, a long time has passed since it was eaten by its own father, just l…
Europe’s Frenzy: European and Spanish Universality in María Zambrano
Europe’s FrenzyEuropean and Spanish Universality in María Zambrano Stephen D. Gingerich (bio) In his Vienna lecture of 1935, entitled “Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity,” Husserl acknowledges the widespread sense that Europe is undergoing a spiritual crisis: “The European nations are sick” (1970a, 270). Although physicians may be able to cure bodily ailments using their knowledge of the mechanisms of nature, there as yet exists no wi…
Los abismos del cainismo: La sima de José María Merino
Los abismos del cainismo:La sima de José María Merino Stephen D. Gingerich Cuando José María Merino publicó La sima en 2009, los reseñistas de la novela estuvieron de acuerdo que en ella Merino afirma el cainismo español. Para el crítico anónimo de El Mundo, la novela es “una reflexión sobre la ‘manía fratricida’ de España,” dicho como si se pudiera dar por sentado que tal manía existiera (“La sima”). J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip la llama una “pesquisa” …
Ortega: Secrecy and the World
Research Article| November 01 2014 Ortega: Secrecy and the World Stephen D. Gingerich Stephen D. Gingerich Cleveland State University, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2014) 14 (3): 49-74. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.14.3.0049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen D. Gingerich; Ortega: Secrecy and the World.…
No Servir de Nada: Ana María Matute's and Georges Bataille's Literatures of Infantile Violence
Research Article| July 01 2020 “No Servir de Nada”: Ana María Matute’s and Georges Bataille’s Literatures of Infantile Violence Stephen D. Gingerich Stephen D. Gingerich Cleveland State University, Ohio Stephen Gingerich is an Associate Professor in Cleveland State University’s Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His work on literature and philosophy from Spain and Latin America—including Juan Benet, José María Merino, Borges…
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