Publications

With his radical rupture with Christianity and his view of religion as human projection and self-alienation, Feuerbach is a pioneer for critique. Marx and Engels build on these ideas, they shift the focus to the earthly idols/ideology and aim to make them impossible by a continually renewing critique of historical-material reality. According to them, Feuerbach has taken the first step, but he ignores reality because he does not see practice but ...

The conclusion to Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis, which anticipates “the approaching unification and simplification” of “a common life of mankind on earth” has been interpreted more than it has been read. What has rarely received attention is the sudden intrusion in its final paragraph of Pearl Buck’s Chinese peasants, deflecting attention from the troubled focus on the face of Mrs Ramsay in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse that informs the final ...

Comparing to figura and the figurative, the figural has a shorter history. In Discourse, Figure (1971), Jean-François Lyotard thoroughly elaborated on this notion. A decade later, Gilles Deleuze further developed it in The Logic of Sensation (1981), where the productive Diagram and the intensive Sensation are both related to the Figure. Building upon those previous works, the goal of the present essay is twofold: first, to advance the figural as ...