Lessons in Secular Criticism by Stathis Gourgouris

Author:Stathis Gourgouris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fordham University Press

1. Michel de Certeau, “What Do We Do When We Believe?,” in On Signs, ed. Marshall Blonsky (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), 192–202. This essay remains, to my mind, the consummate meditation on the notion of belief etymologically, historically, and philosophically.

2. This etymological trajectory is discussed at length in the context of the Greek political imaginary in Cornelius Castoriadis’s Thucydide, la force et le droit (Paris: Seuil, 2011), 297–300.

3. In developing this point, I gained immensely from discussions with Aristides Baltas and from his new book Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses: Spinoza and the Young Wittgenstein Converse on Immanence and Its Logic (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2012).

4. See Gregory Vlastos, “Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought,” in Studies in Greek Philosophy, vol. 1, The Presocratics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 24.

5. Quoted in James Ridgeway, “Scalia Stumps for Virgin Birth,” Village Voice, January 25, 2005, 23.

6. See Edward Said, “The Future of Criticism,” in Reflections on Exile (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 171.

7 Said is explicit on this when he speaks of art as a mode of thinking in utopian cast, “if by utopian we mean worldly, possible, attainable, knowable,” in Musical Elaborations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 105.

8. This is the phrasing Kirstie McClure used to describe the position taken in this argument in her response to the presentation of this essay during the boundary 2 meetings at UCLA on May 12, 2012. I’m ever grateful for many of her suggestions, which have been incorporated here throughout.

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