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The Haunting of the University: Phantomenology and the House of Learning
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 9, Issue 1, Winter 2009
- pp. 3-12
- Article
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The essay traces the genealogy and implications of the emergence of a discourse of ghosts, spectrality, hauntology, and phantoms within the rational machinery of the modern university. Moving across disciplines—including literature, sociology, physics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy—the article contends that the university is at a new moment of self-understanding.