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  1. Editor's Column: A Passion for Being
  2. Zahi Zalloua
  3. pp. 1-6
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0000
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Ontologies

  1. The Material Turn and the Fantasy to Undo Modernity
  2. Benjamin Boysen, Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen
  3. pp. 7-24
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0001
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  1. Being in the World According to Badiou
  2. Brian O'Keeffe
  3. pp. 25-45
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0002
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  1. Torsional Materialism: Artwork beyond the Immanence/Transcendence Divide
  2. Andrija Filipović
  3. pp. 46-59
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0003
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  1. "Can We Relinquish the Transcendental?": Malabou and Foucault on the Kantian Organism
  2. I. A. Roland-Rodríguez
  3. pp. 60-82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0004
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  1. Political Ontogenesis: (Through) Affects (Towards) Becoming (And) Immanent Critique
  2. Denis Petrina
  3. pp. 83-95
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0005
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  1. Antiphilosophy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Is Black Suicide Possible?
  2. Adrián I. P-Flores
  3. pp. 96-114
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0006
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  1. "To exist is to survive unfair choices": "Tribal Ontology" in the Netflix Originals Series The OA
  2. David Sweeney
  3. pp. 115-134
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0007
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  1. The New New Criticism: Antitheory, Autonomy, and the Literary Text from Object-Oriented Ontology to Postcritique
  2. Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  3. pp. 135-155
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0008
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  1. Enjoyment as an Ontological Factor: Sex, Death Drive, and the Subject of Jouissance in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette
  2. Russell Sbriglia
  3. pp. 156-181
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0009
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  1. Examining the "principle of philosophical sufficiency": Of ontology and its philosophical limitations
  2. Katerina Kolozova
  3. pp. 182-195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0010
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General Articles

  1. Submission beyond Islam: Yielding as Organizing Principle in Michel Houellebecq's novels
  2. Karl Ågerup
  3. pp. 196-214
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0011
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  1. 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
  2. Albrecht Classen
  3. pp. 215-234
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0012
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  1. A Passion for the Past: History, Narrative and Desire in Stendhal and Tanizaki
  2. Roderick Cooke
  3. pp. 235-260
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0013
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  1. Balzac, Flaubert, Clarín: Practices of Symptomatic and Surface Reading in Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta
  2. Matt Johnson
  3. pp. 261-282
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0014
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  1. Debits and Credits or Accounting for my Life: A Defense of Reading and Humanistic Education
  2. Paul Allen Miller
  3. pp. 283-295
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0015
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  1. Narrative at Its Boiling Point: Marguerite Duras, Georges Bataille, and the Quest for the Sacred
  2. François-Nicolas Vozel
  3. pp. 296-315
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0016
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  1. Scatter, Proto-democracy, and the Non-political Opening of Politics
  2. Geoffrey Bennington
  3. pp. 316-331
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0017
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Review Essays

  1. Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy For The Ends of Global Thought by Jacques Lezra (review)
  2. Brian O'Keeffe
  3. pp. 332-353
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0018
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  1. Orbital Poetics: Literature, Theory, World by Philip Leonard (review)
  2. Christian Moraru
  3. pp. 354-363
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0019
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Reviews

  1. Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (review)
  2. Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  3. pp. 364-369
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0020
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  1. Atomistic Intuitions: An Essay on Classification by Gaston Bachelard (review)
  2. Ben Stoltzfus
  3. pp. 369-372
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0021
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  1. Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism by Nicholas Brown (review)
  2. Peter Hitchcock
  3. pp. 372-374
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0022
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  1. "Handsomely Done": Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville ed. by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (review)
  2. Brian Yothers
  3. pp. 374-376
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0023
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  1. Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka (review)
  2. Andrew Gaedtke
  3. pp. 376-378
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0024
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  1. Red Britain: The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture by Matthew Taunton (review)
  2. Olivier Jacques
  3. pp. 379-381
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0025
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  1. Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation by Nathaniel Wallace (review)
  2. Wenying Xu
  3. pp. 381-383
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0026
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  1. Aesthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter by Alexander Wilson (review)
  2. Donald R. Wehrs
  3. pp. 383-386
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0027
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Rutledge Prize

  1. The Rutledge Prize 2019: For Graduate Students Giving Papers at the SCLA Conference
  3. pp. 387-388
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2020.0028
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