Beschreibung:
"Presence offers a timely constellation of essays addressing the recent turn toward presence in various disciplines, notably aesthetics, literary criticism, philosophy, and history. The interacting essays in this volume provide an informed, thought-provoking, sometimes contestable, and at points uncannily defamiliarizing guide to the sinuous, many-sided turn to presence."―Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University, author of History, Literature, Critical Theory
PrologueEthan Kleinberg1. Presence in absentiaEthan Kleinberg2. Be Here Now: Mimesis and the History of RepresentationVincent P. Pecora3. Meaning, Truth, and PhenomenologyMark Bevir4. Of Photographs, Puns and PresenceSusan Crane5. The Public Rendition of Images Médusées: Exhibiting Souvenir Photographs taken at Lynchings in AmericaRoger I. Simon6. The Presence of Immigrants, or Why Mexicans and Arabs Look AlikeJohn Michael7. Transcultural PresenceBill Ashcroft8. It Disturbs Me With a Presence: Hindu History and What Meaning Cannot ConveyRanjan Ghosh9. The Presence and Conceptualization of Contemporary Protesting CrowdsSuman GuptaEpilogue: Presence Continuous