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4 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2025-2026
Angelaki September 3, 2026 Andrew Haas
Husserl’s phenomenology of internal time-consciousness is supposed to give an account of the possibility of experience and its objects. But if its determinations are merely temporal, it cannot explain how different ways of experiencing are possible at one and the same time; for example, how we can both be experiencing and have experienced in the present. For this, we need aspect (which is...
Angelaki July 4, 2026 Lyman Gamberton
This paper is a field guide to the haunted shtetl. I analyse S. Ansky’s stage play The Dybbuk and the religio-social phenomenon of spirit possession in early modern Judaism through the lens of Creepy Studies, with a particular focus on abjection, pollution, and dark play. A dybbuk is a type of restless spirit from Kabbalistic cosmology, first identified in sixteenth-century Palestine: a dead...
Angelaki March 4, 2025 Amador Vega, E. Coles
Abstract The history of philosophy is scored with crossroads, from the anecdotic to the foundational. Understanding the crossroads as a mise-en-scène of personal and intellectual crisis, this article scans the encounters of some of the most significant figures in twentieth-century philosophy with the canonical texts of Western mysticism. In such encounters, it is argued, the intimate testimony...
Angelaki January 2, 2025 Claire Colebrook 2 citations
When Freud described the “oceanic feeling” of intimated plenitude that haunted the boundaries of consciousness he both intensified a post-enlightenment aesthetics that imagined the beyond of civilization is female, fluid, and undifferentiated and gave modernist poetics a theory of an almost unthinkable serenity beyond the limits of identity. European Romanticism and modernism, for all their...