• Sovereignty and the Cult of Immediacy 

  Librett, Jeffrey S. (University of Oregon, 2017)

• "From New Class Critique to White Nationalism: Telos, the Alt Right, and the Origins of Trumpism" 

  Lowndes, Joseph (University of Oregon, 2017)

• Mexico, Immigration, and Trump: Towards Transborder Thinking 

  Stephen, Lynn (University of Oregon, 2017)

• No Accounting for Taste: From Mar-A-Lago to the White House 

  Calhoon, Kenneth S. (University of Oregon, 2017)

• "Broad-Shouldered" Rhetoric: The Trump Era and the Peculiar Contempt for Words 

  Marlan, Dawn (University of Oregon, 2017)

• No Joke: Trump and Humor 

  Boos, Sonja (University of Oregon, 2017)

• Trumpestilence 

  Stern, Michael (University of Oregon, 2017)

• Introduction: What is a Thing 

  Reynolds, Nicholas; Librett, Jeffrey S. (University of Oregon, 2015)

• Urgent Matter 

  Moore, Jonathan (University of Oregon, 2015)

  Opening questions about "things" onto the bureaucratically-maintained, compartmentalized discursive, disciplinary claims of "philosophy," "theory," and "poetry," "Urgent Matter" explores these three terms in relation to ...

• The Freudian Thing and the Ethics of Speech 

  Wilson, Daniel (University of Oregon, 2015)

  In his 1891 On Aphasia Freud defines the “thing” in the terms of J.S. Mill’s empiricist phenomenology as a set of sensory impressions that is linked both to language and to immediate sensory experience. These distinctions ...

• Rilke, Phenomenology, and the Sensuality of Thought 

  Tobias, Rochelle (University of Oregon, 2015)

  This paper takes as its point of departure Husserl’s claim that the only world we can speak of is the one given in consciousness or that presents itself to intuition. Husserl’s insistence on the world’s status as a phenomenon ...

• At the discretion of the (a-) thing: Derrida and German thought 

  Appelbaum, David (University of Oregon, 2015)

  In this presentation, I examine the doubleness of the thing that is usually masked by the appropriative tendencies of life. Once the enigma of thingliness is given its place, the influence of its own non-intentional ...

• "Was bedeutet der Stein?": Fetishism, Profanation, and Parody in Fontane's Grete Minde 

  Weitzman, Erica (University of Oregon, 2015)

  This article explores the function of the precarious (non-)significance of the thing in Theodor Fontane’s 1879 novella Grete Minde. On the surface a simple tale of exclusion and revenge in seventeenth-century Brandenburg ...

• Speculative Fetishism 

  McNulty, Tracy (University of Oregon, 2015)

  Quentin Meillassoux, like his mentor Alain Badiou, is sometimes accused by his critics of “fetishizing mathematics.” Without embracing the negative judgment implied in such a charge, this essay asks: what might be gained ...

• "Innocent Objects:" Fetishism and Melancholia in Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence 

  Hoffmann, Eva (University of Oregon, 2015)

  In this article, I place Orhan Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence into dialogue with Sigmund Freud's theory of the fetish. As Gerhard Neumann argues, the fetish provides the basic pattern for the modern subject and its ...

• Clouds: The Tyranny of Irony over Philosophy 

  Stern, Michael (University of Oregon, 2015)

  Both Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche maintained an abiding concern for Socrates throughout their productive lives. Kierkegaard wrote his dissertation on irony through a Socratic lens and Nietzsche once declared ...

• How to Go Beyond an Ontotheology of the Human Subject? Anxiety in Kierkegaard and Heidegger 

  Librett, Jeffrey S. (University of Oregon, 2015)

  By examining Martin Heidegger's critique of Søren Kierkegaard, this essay reconsiders the limits that an ontotheology of the subject may or may not impose on investigations of the relations between being and time. I begin ...

• Mutiny of an Error: Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Suicide 

  Klebes, Martin (University of Oregon, 2015)

  In their philosophical work Ludwig Wittgenstein and Søren Kierkegaard both reflect on suicide as a response to existential despair. While Anti-Climacus, the pseudonymous author of The Sickness unto Death, rejects the ...

• Introduction: Kierkegaard and German Thought 

  Stern, Michael (University of Oregon, 2015)

  Kierkegaard's own fondness for prefaces introduces our volume.

• The concept of Byrony 

  Gurley, D. (University of Oregon, 2015)

  “The Concept of Byrony” examines Kierkegaard’s lyrical relation to Lord Byron. As an alternative to models of German influence, this paper discusses Kierkegaard’s quotations of Byron’s poetry and allusions to the poet ...

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