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Shakespeare's now : atemporal presentness in King Lear and The Winter's TaleIn Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney & Julia Reinhard Lupton (eds.), Entertaining the idea: Shakespeare, philosophy, and performance, University of Toronto Press in Association With the Ucla Center For Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 2021.
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11Non-Negative Negative Atheology"How to Avoid Speaking: Denials" (review)Diacritics 20 (4): 2. 1990.
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4The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural SublimeYale University Press. 2000.A study of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures: according to this concept, the art of freely receiving and handing on cultural tradition and the act of achieving moral and aesthetic freedom in sublime representation are the same phenomenon.
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11Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary TheoryIrvine Studies in the Humaniti. 1996.This volume brings together fifteen outstanding literary theorists and philosophers to examine ways to make the unsayable--that which has been excluded by what is sayable--tangible.
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45Kant and MiltonHarvard University Press. 2010.Kant and Milton: fundamentals and foundations -- Kant's journey in the constellation of German Miltonism: toward the procedure of succession -- Kant's Miltonic transfer to exemplarity: the succession to Milton's "On his blindness" in the groundwork of the Metaphysics of morals -- Kantian tragic form and Kantian "storytelling" -- The Critique of practical reason and Samson agonistes -- Kant's Miltonic procedure of succession in a key moment of the Critique of judgment.
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9Rembrandt's and Freud's "Gerusalemme Liberata"Social Research: An International Quarterly 58. 1991.
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67The Function of Kant's Miltonic Citations on a Page of the Opus postumumPhilosophy and Literature 40 (1): 76-97. 2016.On one manuscript page of the Opus postumum Kant twice recurs to a passage from Paradise Lost that, seven years earlier, he had cited to exemplify aesthetic ideas and the concept of succession.1 Now he calls on these same verses to perform an additional function, namely, to represent the a priori idea of a community of reciprocity. For Kant, the “insertion” of this idea serves as an “actus of cognition” that can enable experience of the “subjectively actual”.2In the cited passage from Paradise L…Read more