Producing Presences
Branching Out from Gumbrecht's Work Volume 2
Published on 31. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
378 pages
978-1-933227-22-1 (ISBN)
Description
Scholars examine Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's work in the context of the Portuguese-speaking world
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amherst
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933227-22-1 (9781933227221)
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Victor K. Mendes is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Graduate Program Director in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
João Cezar De Castro Rocha is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and Researcher at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa Científica (CNPq). He is author of Literatura e cordialidade. O público e o privado na cultura brasileira (EdUERJ, 1998), and O exílio do homem cordial. Ensaios e revisões (Museu da República, 2004).
João Cezar De Castro Rocha is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and Researcher at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa Científica (CNPq). He is author of Literatura e cordialidade. O público e o privado na cultura brasileira (EdUERJ, 1998), and O exílio do homem cordial. Ensaios e revisões (Museu da República, 2004).
Content
- Foreword: Do Theories Ever Travel? - Victor K. Mendes & João Cezar de Castro Rocha
- THEORY AND ITS INTENSITY
- The Materiality of Presence: Notes on Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Theoretical Project - Pierpaolo Antonello
- Lost in Focused Intensity: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Hymn to Sports - Horst Bredekamp
- The "Soft Terror" of Deconstruction - René Girard
- In Praise of Focused Intensity - Stephen Greenblatt
- Points of Style - Robert Pogue Harrison
- Critical Reading After Gumbrecht - Victor K. Mendes
- Some Thoughts on the Physics of Presence - Andrea Nightingale
- Materialities of Communication: A Parallel Campaign from the Comrade-in-Arms - Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer
- What's the Matter with Presence? - Joan Ramon Resina
- Match Point-Is Sports History Possible? - João Cezar de Castro Rocha
- On Production of Presence - Richard Rorty
- Gumbrecht's "Presence" Between Musil and Heidegger - Kathrin Rosenfield
- Interpretation in a Package - Miguel Tamen
- Literary Aesthetics: The Very Idea - Lindsay Waters
- THEORY AND ITS LOCATIONS
- In-12 Versus In-folio - Abel Barros Baptista
- Here Lies Nothing: Ghosts of Empire in Portuguese India - K. David Jackson
- Another Look at Identities - José Luís Jobim
- Allophone Presences, in the 'Here-and-Now' of the Humanities - Christopher Larkosh
- Repress the Desire for Eternity, or, Stop Making Sense of History! - Luís Madureira
- On How to Compact a Text, or, La Rochefoucauld in the Tropics - Pedro Meira Monteiro
- The Senses of In-Materiality - Evando Nascimento
- Portuguese Actually: The "Special Relationship" meets the "Oldest Alliance" - Hilary Owen
- From Oral Transmission to Written Text: The Construction of Emerging Literary Systems - Francisco Salinas Portugal
- Driftings from Gumbrecht and Lyotard: The Concepts of "Figural" and "Presence" - Marília Librandi Rocha
- Teaching Desire: The Aleatory in Ethics and the Aesthetic Experience - Phillip Rothwell
- Afterword: Will my Present have a Future? - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- Remarks on "Will my Present have a Future?" - Arbogast Schmitt
- Contributors and Translators
- Index
- THEORY AND ITS INTENSITY
- The Materiality of Presence: Notes on Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Theoretical Project - Pierpaolo Antonello
- Lost in Focused Intensity: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Hymn to Sports - Horst Bredekamp
- The "Soft Terror" of Deconstruction - René Girard
- In Praise of Focused Intensity - Stephen Greenblatt
- Points of Style - Robert Pogue Harrison
- Critical Reading After Gumbrecht - Victor K. Mendes
- Some Thoughts on the Physics of Presence - Andrea Nightingale
- Materialities of Communication: A Parallel Campaign from the Comrade-in-Arms - Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer
- What's the Matter with Presence? - Joan Ramon Resina
- Match Point-Is Sports History Possible? - João Cezar de Castro Rocha
- On Production of Presence - Richard Rorty
- Gumbrecht's "Presence" Between Musil and Heidegger - Kathrin Rosenfield
- Interpretation in a Package - Miguel Tamen
- Literary Aesthetics: The Very Idea - Lindsay Waters
- THEORY AND ITS LOCATIONS
- In-12 Versus In-folio - Abel Barros Baptista
- Here Lies Nothing: Ghosts of Empire in Portuguese India - K. David Jackson
- Another Look at Identities - José Luís Jobim
- Allophone Presences, in the 'Here-and-Now' of the Humanities - Christopher Larkosh
- Repress the Desire for Eternity, or, Stop Making Sense of History! - Luís Madureira
- On How to Compact a Text, or, La Rochefoucauld in the Tropics - Pedro Meira Monteiro
- The Senses of In-Materiality - Evando Nascimento
- Portuguese Actually: The "Special Relationship" meets the "Oldest Alliance" - Hilary Owen
- From Oral Transmission to Written Text: The Construction of Emerging Literary Systems - Francisco Salinas Portugal
- Driftings from Gumbrecht and Lyotard: The Concepts of "Figural" and "Presence" - Marília Librandi Rocha
- Teaching Desire: The Aleatory in Ethics and the Aesthetic Experience - Phillip Rothwell
- Afterword: Will my Present have a Future? - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- Remarks on "Will my Present have a Future?" - Arbogast Schmitt
- Contributors and Translators
- Index