• I perform a gender-theoretical, rhetorically-informed reading of the eighteenth- to nineteenth-century discourse on the grounding of the "beautiful soul" as self-grounding subject-objectivity. I re- and de-construct the operations of this grounding--in Shaftesbury, Kant, and Hegel--at the moment when the "beautiful soul," delegitimated by secularization, answers with an emphatic denegation. I interpret the claim to grounding in: reason , nature , and conviction . ;In Part I, I contrast Shaftesbu…Read more
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    Writing the Perverse Body in Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde
    In Juliet Flower MacCannell & Laura Zakarin (eds.), Thinking Bodies, Stanford University Press. pp. 132-140. 1994.
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    Schizotechnotheology in Some Zionist Texts
    American Journal of Semiotics 10 (3-4): 27-80. 1993.
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    Wunderzeichen
    Semiotics 285-295. 1986.
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    La part de l'autre
    with Jean-Michel Rey
    Substance 28 (2): 164. 1999.
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    Explores the sublime as an unmasterable excess of beauty that marks the limit of representation, in language that requires a firm grasp on the concepts and terminology of modern (that is, pre-postmodern) philosophy.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:From the Sacrifice of the Letter to the Voice of TestimonyGiorgio Agamben’s Fulfillment of MetaphysicsJeffrey S. Librett (bio)By denying us the limit of the Limitless, the death of God leads to an experience in which nothing may again announce the exteriority of being, and consequently to an experience which is interior and sovereign. But such an experience, for which the death of God is an explosive reality, discloses as its own sec…Read more
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    In this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through ...