{"title":"Beauvoir and Sartre as Public Intellectuals in 2022","authors":"W. McBride","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"38 1","pages":"884 - 891"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85663840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pawning the Rose: The Fiore, the Economy of Objects, and the Translation of Debt","authors":"Filippo Petricca","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"11 1","pages":"943 - 987"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86586811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Dossier: The New Politics of Existence","authors":"William Egginton, Yi-Ping Ong","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"16 1","pages":"853 - 854"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88795822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Authenticity and the Concept of the Public in Kierkegaard and Heidegger","authors":"Yi-Ping Ong","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"commentaries","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"14 1","pages":"872 - 883"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89518869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Maurice Blanchot’s first novel, Thomas l’Obscur , contains a very intense episode in which the protagonist encounters the night. Close attention to the language and development of this episode indicates a proximity to Descartes’ method of scepticism. However, Blanchot significantly extends and suspends Descartes’ method, which leads to a reconfiguration of thought itself in such a way that it places in question the notions of sameness and difference as well as the relation of thought to literature and existence.
{"title":"The Night Itself: Blanchot, Descartes","authors":"W. S. Allen","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Maurice Blanchot’s first novel, Thomas l’Obscur , contains a very intense episode in which the protagonist encounters the night. Close attention to the language and development of this episode indicates a proximity to Descartes’ method of scepticism. However, Blanchot significantly extends and suspends Descartes’ method, which leads to a reconfiguration of thought itself in such a way that it places in question the notions of sameness and difference as well as the relation of thought to literature and existence.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"32 1","pages":"814 - 840"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74409733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Building on fifteen years translating Catherine Malabou’s thought from French to English, this article pursues my exploration of her signature plasticity within translation studies. It reflects on the ways Malabou draws on art to name plasticity, as a new thought that emerged for her in philosophy. Her recent book Le Plaisir effacé. Clitoris et pensée (2020) considers what to do with that which remains unthought precisely because it is unseen. Now that contemporary art is at last making the clitoris visible, offering it representation, I ask, does Malabou’s philosophical analysis offer a new art of clitoridean translation?
{"title":"Pleasure Unthought in Translation","authors":"C. Shread","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0054","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Building on fifteen years translating Catherine Malabou’s thought from French to English, this article pursues my exploration of her signature plasticity within translation studies. It reflects on the ways Malabou draws on art to name plasticity, as a new thought that emerged for her in philosophy. Her recent book Le Plaisir effacé. Clitoris et pensée (2020) considers what to do with that which remains unthought precisely because it is unseen. Now that contemporary art is at last making the clitoris visible, offering it representation, I ask, does Malabou’s philosophical analysis offer a new art of clitoridean translation?","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"1 1","pages":"737 - 754"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77983436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Les rapports entre philosophie et art ont pris un tour nouveau à la fin du XXe siècle après les événements historiques traumatiques qu’ont été la Shoah et toutes les formes de totalitarisme qui en ont été les contemporaines. L’art, selon Lyotard et Rancière, se devrait de trouver une forme d’expression de ces traumatismes, dans la mesure où le logos philosophique serait incapable de faire droit aux discours des victimes. Cette expression est-elle de l’ordre de la représentation ou de l’imprésentable ? Nous tenterons ici de montrer qu’une telle question a aujourd’hui perdu sa pertinence.
{"title":"Quand on n’a que le discours: Réflexions sur la forme","authors":"C. Malabou","doi":"10.1353/mln.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Les rapports entre philosophie et art ont pris un tour nouveau à la fin du XXe siècle après les événements historiques traumatiques qu’ont été la Shoah et toutes les formes de totalitarisme qui en ont été les contemporaines. L’art, selon Lyotard et Rancière, se devrait de trouver une forme d’expression de ces traumatismes, dans la mesure où le logos philosophique serait incapable de faire droit aux discours des victimes. Cette expression est-elle de l’ordre de la représentation ou de l’imprésentable ? Nous tenterons ici de montrer qu’une telle question a aujourd’hui perdu sa pertinence.","PeriodicalId":78454,"journal":{"name":"MLN bulletin","volume":"334 1","pages":"637 - 645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76564694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}