Examining multiple academic discourses, PASSIVE NIHILISM argues that contemporary models of history, culture, and language are too reactive for the interpretations associated with "normal criticism". Drawing upon the notions of de Man and Deleuze, the author suggests alternatives to modern scholarly writing.
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“. . . an elegant and powerful expansion on the work of Hayden White.” —Tom Conley, Harvard University
“Sande Cohen is one of the most original scholars working in the field of cultural criticism today.” —Hayden White, Stanford University
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Sande Cohen teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
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There essays bring skepticism to scholarly texts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
single white lie, excessive reader, passive nihilism, cultural historiography, incorporeal transformations, collective assemblage, last readers, new scholar, high scholarship, regulative ideal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Specters of Marx, Hayden White, Thousand Plateaus, Los Angeles, Shelley Disfigured, Carlo Ginzburg, Middle East, Paul de Man, World War, Final Solution, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, United States New!
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There essays bring skepticism to scholarly texts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
single white lie, excessive reader, passive nihilism, cultural historiography, incorporeal transformations, collective assemblage, last readers, new scholar, high scholarship, regulative ideal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Specters of Marx, Hayden White, Thousand Plateaus, Los Angeles, Shelley Disfigured, Carlo Ginzburg, Middle East, Paul de Man, World War, Final Solution, Fredric Jameson, Judith Butler, United States New!
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- Resistance To Theory (Theory and History of Literature) by Paul De Man on 6 pages
- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze on 6 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International (Routledge Classics) by Jacques Derrida on 6 pages
- Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler on page 116, page 145, and Back Matter
- The Subject of Semiotics by Kaja Silverman on page 93, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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