Jeffrey S Librett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1007136 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeffrey S Librett |
| PRENOMES | Jeffrey S |
| SOBRENOME | Librett |
| ASSINATURA | LIBRETT J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sensus Communis —Reason, Rhetoric, and Race in Kant
In part to shed indirect light on the rhetorical dimensions of current socio- and cultural-political polemics, and on current versions of the rationalist-irrationalist polarity, I examine Kant's critique of both rationalism and irrationalism in "What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?" and related texts through the Critique of Judgment . I show that Kant insightfully produces there an undecidability of the nature-culture and the philosop…
Language, Body, Drive: RereadingTotem and Taboothrough Jakobson and Lacan
This essay examines the excessive structure and functioning of the drive, on the limit between language and the organic body, in Totem and Taboo. To shed new light on the relationship between language and the jouissance of the drive, as well as the primal horde myth, the author draws on Roman Jakobson's theory of metaphor and metonymy, more specifically, his infrequently noted comments on the undecidability of their interrelationship. In terms of…
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
This book demonstrates the inextricable entanglement of Orientalism and anti-Judaism in modern German letters. It shows how historicist narratives posit the Orient as fetish in lieu of absent origins, then appropriate this fetish by applying to the East-West relation the Christian supercessionist typology earlier developed to construe the Jewish-Christian relation.
Historicist Orientalism as a Public Absolute: On Herder's Typo-teleology
What is whole on earth? ... [D]oesn't this building of the times upon each other make the whole of our species into a formless monstrous structure [zum unförmlichen Riesengebäude], where one carries away what another began to build, where what never should have been built remains standing and in centuries finally everything becomes One Ruin [Ein Schutt], amongst which, the more broken and crumbling it is, the more confidently the hesitating peopl…
From the Sacrifice of the Letter to the Voice of Testimony: Giorgio Agamben’s Fulfillment of Metaphysics
From the Sacrifice of the Letter to the Voice of TestimonyGiorgio Agamben's Fulfillment of Metaphysics Jeffrey S. Librett (bio) By denying us the limit of the Limitless, the death of God leads to an experience in which nothing may again announce the exteriority of being, and consequently to an experience which is interior and sovereign. But such an experience, for which the death of God is an explosive reality, discloses as its own secret and cla…
With These Repulsive Things Indissolubly Bound: Kafka as Primal Scene
Kafka everywhere writes about, and evinces in his life, the impossibility of connecting with other people and the impossibility of separating from them. This essay shows how Kafka repeatedly formulates this double impossibility in terms of the fantasy of the primal scene, always in conjunction with the other primal fantasies, those of seduction and castration. It explores the inscription of the primal scene in three well-known short fictions ("Th…
On the Matter of Method in Modernist German-Jewish Studies
Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judentum: Vorrede zu Mannaseh Ben Israels "Rettung der Juden"
Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und judentum: Vorrede zu Mannaseh Ben Israels Rettung der juden. Ed. David Martyn. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001.172 pp. euro15.50 paperback. This new edition of Mendelssohn's texts from 1782 and 1783 is most welcome for three principle reasons: the importance for cultural and philosophical history of the texts that are being made available here in an affordable format; the significant d…
Destabilizing Typologies: Jewish Works, Christian Faith, and the Passage from Orient to Occident in G. E. Lessing's Ernst und Falk: Gespräche für Freimäurer
Stolen Goods: Cultural Identity after the Counterenlightenment in Salomon Maimon's Autobiography (1792)
Jeffrey S. Librett, Stolen Goods: Cultural Identity after the Counterenlightenment in Salomon Maimon's Autobiography (1792), New German Critique, No. 79, Special Issue on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought (Winter, 2000), pp. 36-66
Is psychoanalysis a science
Freud Among the Philosophers: the Psychoanalytic Unconscious and its Philosophical Critics, by Donald Levy, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 189 pages
La part de l'autre
Reviewed by: La part de l'autre Jeffrey S. Librett Rey, Jean-Michel. La part de l'autre. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. The theme of Jean-Michel Rey's book is the servile dependence that can arise when one human being takes another as his or her absolute model. The book focuses on the rhetorical and—in the broadest sense—economic dimensions of imaginary identification and idealization. It examines the ways in which the figure of A…
Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: On the Attempted Assimilation of Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's Uber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier
The doctrine of figura, as Erich Auerbach so usefully explains it, has dominated relations between Jews and Christians from the time of St. Paul and the early Church Fathers to its restatement by Luther, and continues to do so to the present.1 This very powerful and yet highly unstable doctrine organizes the Jewish and Christian religious-cultural group identities in terms of a set of homologous binary oppositions that underlie, above all, the fi…
Serenity in Crisis: A Preface to Paul de Man 1939-1960
A polymath well versed in European literature and philosophy, one of the founders of deconstruction, and a widely respected teacher, Paul de Man brought unprecedented attention and acclaim to the so-called Yale Critics. His fame was at a zenith when he died suddenly in 1983. A few years later, Ortwin de Graef found the de Man had written for the collaborationist press during the Nazi occupation, a discovery that ignited an international reassessm…
Inscriptions: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism
Reading Kluge's Mass Death in Venice
ions, abstractions (proppings-up or amputations) which real itself undertakes. The text acts as if concepts (old age, age home) had become objectively real things. A Natural Disturbance The situation of the home and its residents is like a monoculture. In a way this is natural since the people stand at the end of their lives; due to the nature of their human bodies they have to reckon with dying. The way in which this happens is produced. (In the…
Mass Death in Venice
In the summer of 1969 the sun weighed down for weeks on the city and waterways of Venice. The steamers and motorboats ploughed through the green waters of the lagoons which surrounded the houses like thick soup. Over 100 old people were lodged in the San Lorenzo Old Age Home, a palace of stone. They could not breathe. On one of the last days in July, 24 of the old people died within a few hours. Those who remained caught unawares by these sudden …
Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: On the Attempted Assimilation of Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's Uber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier
The doctrine of figura, as Erich Auerbach so usefully explains it, has dominated relations between Jews and Christians from the time of St. Paul and the early Church Fathers to its restatement by Luther, and continues to do so to the present.1 This very powerful and yet highly unstable doctrine organizes the Jewish and Christian religious-cultural group identities in terms of a set of homologous binary oppositions that underlie, above all, the fi…
Stolen Goods: Cultural Identity after the Counterenlightenment in Salomon Maimon's Autobiography (1792)
Jeffrey S. Librett, Stolen Goods: Cultural Identity after the Counterenlightenment in Salomon Maimon's Autobiography (1792), New German Critique, No. 79, Special Issue on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought (Winter, 2000), pp. 36-66
Is psychoanalysis a science
Freud Among the Philosophers: the Psychoanalytic Unconscious and its Philosophical Critics, by Donald Levy, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 189 pages
Inscriptions: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism
Reading Kluge's Mass Death in Venice
ions, abstractions (proppings-up or amputations) which real itself undertakes. The text acts as if concepts (old age, age home) had become objectively real things. A Natural Disturbance The situation of the home and its residents is like a monoculture. In a way this is natural since the people stand at the end of their lives; due to the nature of their human bodies they have to reckon with dying. The way in which this happens is produced. (In the…
Mass Death in Venice
In the summer of 1969 the sun weighed down for weeks on the city and waterways of Venice. The steamers and motorboats ploughed through the green waters of the lagoons which surrounded the houses like thick soup. Over 100 old people were lodged in the San Lorenzo Old Age Home, a palace of stone. They could not breathe. On one of the last days in July, 24 of the old people died within a few hours. Those who remained caught unawares by these sudden …
Inscriptions: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism
Serenity in Crisis: A Preface to Paul de Man 1939-1960
A polymath well versed in European literature and philosophy, one of the founders of deconstruction, and a widely respected teacher, Paul de Man brought unprecedented attention and acclaim to the so-called Yale Critics. His fame was at a zenith when he died suddenly in 1983. A few years later, Ortwin de Graef found the de Man had written for the collaborationist press during the Nazi occupation, a discovery that ignited an international reassessm…
Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: On the Attempted Assimilation of Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's Uber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier
The doctrine of figura, as Erich Auerbach so usefully explains it, has dominated relations between Jews and Christians from the time of St. Paul and the early Church Fathers to its restatement by Luther, and continues to do so to the present.1 This very powerful and yet highly unstable doctrine organizes the Jewish and Christian religious-cultural group identities in terms of a set of homologous binary oppositions that underlie, above all, the fi…
Is psychoanalysis a science
Freud Among the Philosophers: the Psychoanalytic Unconscious and its Philosophical Critics, by Donald Levy, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 189 pages
La part de l'autre
Reviewed by: La part de l'autre Jeffrey S. Librett Rey, Jean-Michel. La part de l'autre. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. The theme of Jean-Michel Rey's book is the servile dependence that can arise when one human being takes another as his or her absolute model. The book focuses on the rhetorical and—in the broadest sense—economic dimensions of imaginary identification and idealization. It examines the ways in which the figure of A…
Stolen Goods: Cultural Identity after the Counterenlightenment in Salomon Maimon's Autobiography (1792)
Jeffrey S. Librett, Stolen Goods: Cultural Identity after the Counterenlightenment in Salomon Maimon's Autobiography (1792), New German Critique, No. 79, Special Issue on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought (Winter, 2000), pp. 36-66
On the Matter of Method in Modernist German-Jewish Studies
Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judentum: Vorrede zu Mannaseh Ben Israels "Rettung der Juden"
Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und judentum: Vorrede zu Mannaseh Ben Israels Rettung der juden. Ed. David Martyn. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001.172 pp. euro15.50 paperback. This new edition of Mendelssohn's texts from 1782 and 1783 is most welcome for three principle reasons: the importance for cultural and philosophical history of the texts that are being made available here in an affordable format; the significant d…
Destabilizing Typologies: Jewish Works, Christian Faith, and the Passage from Orient to Occident in G. E. Lessing's Ernst und Falk: Gespräche für Freimäurer
From the Sacrifice of the Letter to the Voice of Testimony: Giorgio Agamben’s Fulfillment of Metaphysics
From the Sacrifice of the Letter to the Voice of TestimonyGiorgio Agamben's Fulfillment of Metaphysics Jeffrey S. Librett (bio) By denying us the limit of the Limitless, the death of God leads to an experience in which nothing may again announce the exteriority of being, and consequently to an experience which is interior and sovereign. But such an experience, for which the death of God is an explosive reality, discloses as its own secret and cla…
With These Repulsive Things Indissolubly Bound: Kafka as Primal Scene
Kafka everywhere writes about, and evinces in his life, the impossibility of connecting with other people and the impossibility of separating from them. This essay shows how Kafka repeatedly formulates this double impossibility in terms of the fantasy of the primal scene, always in conjunction with the other primal fantasies, those of seduction and castration. It explores the inscription of the primal scene in three well-known short fictions ("Th…
Historicist Orientalism as a Public Absolute: On Herder's Typo-teleology
What is whole on earth? ... [D]oesn't this building of the times upon each other make the whole of our species into a formless monstrous structure [zum unförmlichen Riesengebäude], where one carries away what another began to build, where what never should have been built remains standing and in centuries finally everything becomes One Ruin [Ein Schutt], amongst which, the more broken and crumbling it is, the more confidently the hesitating peopl…
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
This book demonstrates the inextricable entanglement of Orientalism and anti-Judaism in modern German letters. It shows how historicist narratives posit the Orient as fetish in lieu of absent origins, then appropriate this fetish by applying to the East-West relation the Christian supercessionist typology earlier developed to construe the Jewish-Christian relation.
Language, Body, Drive: RereadingTotem and Taboothrough Jakobson and Lacan
This essay examines the excessive structure and functioning of the drive, on the limit between language and the organic body, in Totem and Taboo. To shed new light on the relationship between language and the jouissance of the drive, as well as the primal horde myth, the author draws on Roman Jakobson's theory of metaphor and metonymy, more specifically, his infrequently noted comments on the undecidability of their interrelationship. In terms of…
Sensus Communis —Reason, Rhetoric, and Race in Kant
In part to shed indirect light on the rhetorical dimensions of current socio- and cultural-political polemics, and on current versions of the rationalist-irrationalist polarity, I examine Kant's critique of both rationalism and irrationalism in "What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?" and related texts through the Critique of Judgment . I show that Kant insightfully produces there an undecidability of the nature-culture and the philosop…
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