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Editor's Column: A Passion for Being

Zahi Zalloua
pp. 1-6
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Ontologies

The Material Turn and the Fantasy to Undo Modernity

Benjamin Boysen, Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen
pp. 7-24
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Being in the World According to Badiou

Brian O'Keeffe
pp. 25-45
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Torsional Materialism: Artwork beyond the Immanence/Transcendence Divide

Andrija Filipović
pp. 46-59
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"Can We Relinquish the Transcendental?": Malabou and Foucault on the Kantian Organism

I. A. Roland-Rodríguez
pp. 60-82
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Political Ontogenesis: (Through) Affects (Towards) Becoming (And) Immanent Critique

Denis Petrina
pp. 83-95
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Antiphilosophy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Is Black Suicide Possible?

Adrián I. P-Flores
pp. 96-114
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"To exist is to survive unfair choices": "Tribal Ontology" in the Netflix Originals Series The OA

David Sweeney
pp. 115-134
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The New New Criticism: Antitheory, Autonomy, and the Literary Text from Object-Oriented Ontology to Postcritique

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 135-155
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Enjoyment as an Ontological Factor: Sex, Death Drive, and the Subject of Jouissance in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette

Russell Sbriglia
pp. 156-181
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Examining the "principle of philosophical sufficiency": Of ontology and its philosophical limitations

Katerina Kolozova
pp. 182-195
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General Articles

Submission beyond Islam: Yielding as Organizing Principle in Michel Houellebecq's novels

Karl Ågerup
pp. 196-214
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The Secret and Universal Relevance of Johann Scheffler' (Angelus Silesius's) Epigrams: Mystico-Philosophical Messages from the World of the Baroque for the Twenty-First Century

Albrecht Classen
pp. 215-234
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A Passion for the Past: History, Narrative and Desire in Stendhal and Tanizaki

Roderick Cooke
pp. 235-260
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Balzac, Flaubert, Clarín: Practices of Symptomatic and Surface Reading in Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta

Matt Johnson
pp. 261-282
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Debits and Credits or Accounting for my Life: A Defense of Reading and Humanistic Education

Paul Allen Miller
pp. 283-295
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Narrative at Its Boiling Point: Marguerite Duras, Georges Bataille, and the Quest for the Sacred

François-Nicolas Vozel
pp. 296-315
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Scatter, Proto-democracy, and the Non-political Opening of Politics

Geoffrey Bennington
pp. 316-331
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Review Essays

Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy For The Ends of Global Thought by Jacques Lezra (review)

Brian O'Keeffe
pp. 332-353
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Orbital Poetics: Literature, Theory, World by Philip Leonard (review)

Christian Moraru
pp. 354-363
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Reviews

Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (review)

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 364-369
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Atomistic Intuitions: An Essay on Classification by Gaston Bachelard (review)

Ben Stoltzfus
pp. 369-372
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Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism by Nicholas Brown (review)

Peter Hitchcock
pp. 372-374
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"Handsomely Done": Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville ed. by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (review)

Brian Yothers
pp. 374-376
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Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka (review)

Andrew Gaedtke
pp. 376-378
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Red Britain: The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture by Matthew Taunton (review)

Olivier Jacques
pp. 379-381
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Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation by Nathaniel Wallace (review)

Wenying Xu
pp. 381-383
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Aesthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter by Alexander Wilson (review)

Donald R. Wehrs
pp. 383-386
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Rutledge Prize

The Rutledge Prize 2019: For Graduate Students Giving Papers at the SCLA Conference

pp. 387-388
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