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Thompson, Kevin and Perry Zurn. Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group [1970-1980]. Trans. Perry Zurn and Erik Bernanek. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. xvii + 492 [...]

Concepts of race are deeply implicated in concepts of national borders, and inherent in those concepts are fear, aggression, and violence. Such concepts are historical and in no way natural. This history has been traced by Foucault and others. Derrida's 'infinite hospitality' offers an alternative way of conceptualizing identity. He argues for a radical openness to the other. Camus's 'L hote' problematizes the concepts of hospitality, freedom, and identity in the French colonial context. These are not fated or decreed. Like Daru and his prisoner in Camus, we have a choice. That choice is never outside of a context. And that context may pervert our intentions. But we do not have to choose the prison of the given; we can envision a world of infinite, nomadic hospitality, and of openness to the other, even as we acknowledge that such openness may mean that we, as we understand ourselves, no longer exist. Keywords: race / border / State / hospitality / Michel Foucault / Jacques Derrida / Albert Camus, Everywhere in our present-day globalized world borders are hardening; the other is racialized and stigmatized. (1) The consequences are not merely political or ideological but real: people die. There is [...]

The temporality of debt is complex and always points in two directions. What I ought to do is based on what I owe, but what I owe is based on [...]

In 1984 Michel Foucault published the long awaited sequel to his Histoire de la sexualite. The Use of Pleasures, as volume two was titled, ends with a final chapter called [...]

Jeffrey Di Leo, Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xxi + 187 pp. Classicists take the long view. Surveying the history [...]

DIOTIMA: Indeed since Eros is always [the desire of the good], would Eros be the name of the zeal and the intensity of those pursuing the good in a certain [...]

Les Regrets sont un journal: mais le journal d'un poete. Des confidences mais artistiquement composees. Son double sentiment, moqueur et desole, sera mis en forme dans les Regrets, comme dans [...]

Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist. By FRANCIS CAIRNS. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 492. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86457-2. Francis Cairns is one of the [...]

[section] I I am not in any sense a wise man; I cannot claim as the child of my soul any discovery worthy of the name of wisdom. But with [...]

This paper begins with the paradox that French feminism from the 1970s to the present constitutes itself both in reaction to and in the tradition of the psychoanalytic theory of [...]

The trouble with contemporary theory can be summed up by a single symptomatic fact: theory has become the property of English Departments. This is not a slur on the competence [...]

Victoria Emma Pagan. Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature. Austin: U of Texas P, 2012. 182 pp. We live in an age of conspiracy theories: birthers, truthers, climate deniers. The believers [...]

The papers in this volume were first given as oral presentations at the Second Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference, 'History, Technology, and Identity after Foucault.' This conference [...]

In an interview entitled, 'The Eye of Power,' Michel Foucault characterized the central project of the French Revolution and of the Enlightenment as follows: The reign of superstition, arbitrary privileges [...]

The majority of the papers in this volume were first given as oral presentations at the First Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference, 'Constructions of the Self: The [...]

Over the past eight years I have taught the poetry of Catullus to both graduate and undergraduate students. I have also supervised a number of teaching assistants who have used [...]

Vergil's 'Aeneid' books 5 and 6 link women with dangerous things such as uncontrolled passion whether heroic or sexual and then ties them all into the labyrinth which is supposed to protect patriarchal society from negative influences. The labyrinth is first linked to the Trojan women burning their own ships, showing this as an uncontrolled, self-destructive action. The images of women and fire are used to show the constant struggle against the monster that is hidden by civilization but never completely banished.

Michael Lewis. Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. xii + 282 pp. This book is indispensible for anyone with a serious interest in the individual works of [...]

James M. Mellard. Beyond Lacan. Albany: State U of New York P, 2006. 288 pp. Mellard's Beyond Lacan is a book that has large intellectual ambitions. It seeks to define [...]

Sean Alexander Gurd. Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2005. 188 pp. Iphigenias at Aulis is quite simply one of the most exciting books I [...]

Jean-Michel Rabate ed. The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. xxviii + 287 pp. Sartre in Search for a Method (1960) famously asserted that Marxism was the 'untranscendable [...]

Jean-Michel Rabate, ed. Lacan in America. New York: Other Press, 2000. xiii + 420 pp. The present collection makes an important contribution to our understanding of Lacan's idiosyncratic reception in [...]

Jameson, Fredric. Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism. Ed. Ian Buchanan. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2007. 296 pp. Fredric Jameson may well be the greatest intellectual produced by the [...]