Producing Presences

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Summary

Scholars examine Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's work in the context of the Portuguese-speaking world

Foreword: Do Theories Ever Travel?
Theory and its Intensity
The Materiality of Presence: Notes on Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Theoretical Project
Lost in Focused Intensity: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Hymn to Sports
The "Soft Terror" of Deconstruction
In Praise of Focused Intensity
Points of Style
Critical Reading After Gumbrecht
Some Thoughts on the Physics of Presence
Materialities of Communication: A Parallel Campaign from the Comrade-in-Arms
What's the Matter with Presence?
Match Point--Is Sports History Possible?
On Production of Presence
Gumbrecht's "Presence" Between Musil and Heidegger
Interpretation in a Package
Literary Aesthetics: The Very Idea
Theory and its Locations
In-12 Versus In-folio
Here Lies Nothing: Ghosts of Empire in Portuguese India
Another Look at Identities
Allophone Presences, in the 'Here-and-Now' of the Humanities
Repress the Desire for Eternity, or, Stop Making Sense of History!
On How to Compact a Text, or, La Rochefoucauld in the Tropics
The Senses of In-Materiality
Portuguese Actually: The "Special Relationship" meets the "Oldest Alliance"
From Oral Transmission to Written Text: The Construction of Emerging Literary Systems
Driftings from Gumbrecht and Lyotard: The Concepts of "Figural" and "Presence"
Teaching Desire: The Aleatory in Ethics and the Aesthetic Experience
Afterword: Will my Present have a Future?
Remarks on "Will my Present have a Future?"
Contributors and Translators
Index
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