The Comparatist
Edited by Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College
Frequency: Annually (October)
Latest Issue: Volume 44, October 2020
Size: 6" x 9", approx 175 pages
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: 0195-7678
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Awarded the Phoenix Prize for Significant Editorial Achievement by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 1996, The Comparatist is a dynamic, well-established journal of comparative literature that has appeared annually since 1977. Its areas of focus include the comparative study of literature, cultural movements, and the arts; and literary and cultural theory. Members of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts receive a subscription to The Comparatist. For more information, visit The Comparatist‘s website.
Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Whitman College.
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Zahi Zalloua
Table of Contents
Volume 44 October 2020
Editor’s Column
A Passion for Being
by Zahi Zalloua
Ontologies
The Material Turn and the Fantasy to Undo Modernity
by Benjamin Boysen and Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen
Being in the World, According to Badiou
by Brian O’Keeffe
Torsional Materialism: Artwork Beyond the Immanence/Transcendence Divide
by Andrija Filipović
“Can We Relinquish the Transcendental?” Malabou and Foucault on the Kantian Organism”
by I. A. Roland-Rodríguez
Political Ontogenesis: (Through) Affects (Towards) Becoming (and) Immanent Critique
by Denis Petrina
Antiphilosophy in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: Is Black Suicide Possible?
by Adrián I. P-Flores
“To exist is to survive unfair choices”: “Tribal Ontology” in the Netflix Originals Series The OA
by David Sweeney
The New New Criticism: Antitheory, Autonomy, and the Literary Text from Object-Oriented Ontology to Postcritique
by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Enjoyment as an Ontological Factor
by Russel Sbriglia
Examining the “principle of philosophical sufficiency”: Of ontology and its philosophical limitations
by Katerina Kolozova
General Articles
Submission Beyond Islam: Yielding as Organizing Principle in Michel Houellebecq’s Novels
by Karl Ågerup
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
by Albrecht Classen
A Passion for the Past: History, Narrative and Desire in Stendhal and Tanizaki
by Roderick Cooke
Balzac, Flaubert, Clar.n: Practices of Symptomatic and Surface Reading in Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta
by Matt Johnson
Debits and Credits or Accounting for my Life: A Defense of Reading and Humanistic Education
by Paul Allen Miller
Narrative at Its Boiling Point: Marguerite Duras, Georges Bataille, and the Quest for the Sacred
by François-Nicolas Vozel
Scatter, Proto-Democracy, and the Non-Political Opening of Politics
by Geoffrey Bennington
Review Essays
Jacques Lezra, Untranslating Machines. A Genealogy For The Ends of Global Thought
by Brian O’Keeffe
Philip Leonard, Orbital Poetics: Literature, Theory, World
by Christian Moraru
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