Thomas Claviez - Selected publications#

Books:

Co-editor, w. Kornelia Imesch and Britta Sweers, Critique of Authenticity (Vernon Press, 2020).
Editor, The Common Growl. Towards a Poetics of Precarious Community (Fordham University Press, 2016).
Co-author, w. Dietmas Wetzel, Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière (VS Verlag, 2013).
Editor, The Conditions of Hospitality (Fordham University Press, 2013; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series).
Aesthetics & Ethics: Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom's Cabin to House Made of Dawn (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008).
Grenzfälle: Mythos - Ideologie - American Studies (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1998).
Co-editor, with Ulla Haselstein and Sieglinde Lemke, Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006).
Co-editor, with mit Maria Moss, Neo-Realism: Between Innovation and Continuation, Amerikastudien/American Studies special issue (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004).
Co-editor, with Winfried Fluck, Theories of American Culture, REAL-Band Nr. 19 (Tübingen: Narr, 2003).
Co-editor, with Maria Moss: "Mirror Writing": (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity (Glienicke/Cambridge: Galda + Wilch Verlag, 2000).

Papers:

“A Critique of Authenticity and Recognition.” In T. Claviez, B. Sweers, K. Imesch (eds.), Critique of Authenticity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020. 43-58.
“The Dual Paradox of Authenticity in the 21st Century: A Response to Alessandro Ferrara.” In T. Claviez, B. Sweers, K. Imesch (eds.), Critique of Authenticity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020. 19-30.
“Introduction.” With Britta Sweers and Kornelia Imesch. In T. Claviez, B. Sweers, K. Imesch (eds.), Critique of Authenticity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020. vii-xix.
“Neorealism, Contingency, and the Linguistic Turn.” Humanities 8.4 (2019): 176. Special Issue Ethics and Literary Practice. Ed. Adam Zachary Newton.
“Where Are Jacques and Ernesto When You Need Them? Rancière and Laclau on Populism, Experts and Contingency.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 45:9-10 (2019): 1132-1143.
“Walt Whitman: Metonymy, Contingency, and the Democracy of it All.” In Winfried Herget (ed.), Walt Whitman Revisited: On the Occasion of His 200th Birthday. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. 139-162.
“Melville, Whitman, and Metonymy: Towards a New Poetics of Community.“ Textual Practice 33 (2019): 1767-1785.
“Dramen der An(v)erkennung: Kritische Theorie als Literaturgeschichte.” In Michael Fest/Philipp Schweighauser (eds.), Subjektivität und Fremdheit in demokratischen Gemeinschaften. Beiträge am Schnittpunkt von Literatur und Politischer Philosophie. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2017.
“A Metonymic Community? Toward a Poetics of Contingency.” In Claviez, Thomas (ed.), The Common Growl. New York: Fordham UP, 2016.
“Krise, Kritik, Kontingenz: Prolegomena zu einer neuen Poetik der Gemeinschaft.” Friedrich, Janette; Thoma, Dieter; Festl, Michael; Grosser, Florian; Hüglig, Anton (Hgg). Uber Krise und Kritik - Crise et critique. Studia philosophica. Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Philosophischen Gesellschaft. Vol. 74, 2015. 107-120.
“Time, Alterity, Hybridity, and ‘Exemplary Universality’: Some Remarks on Alessandro Ferrara’s Concept of ‘Reflective Authenticity’,” in Julia Straub (ed.), Paradoxes of Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2012. 77-92.
“Die Rückkehr des Mythos - das Ende der Aufklärung?” in Dietmar Wetzel (Hrsg.), Perspektiven der Aufklärung. München: Narr, 2012. 43-56.
“Modernist Short Stories between the Regional and the Universal: William Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’ and Eudora Welty’s ‘Petrified Man’,” in A. Nünning/M. Basseler (eds.), A History of the American Short Story. Trier: WVT, 2011. 219-38.
“Democracy: ‘À Dieu, à venir, or au Revoir?’” Annals of Scholarship 19:3 (2010). 108-125.
“Discipline and (Non-)Conformity: European American Studies as Non-American Studies,” in B. Christ et al. (eds.), American Studies/Shifting Gears. Heidelberg: Winter 2010. 23-38.
"Vom (White) American Adam zur (Black) American Eve: Identitäten und Utopien in Toni Morrisons Paradise." In Claudia Benthien/Manuela Gerlof (Hrsg.), Paradies. Topographien der Sehnsucht. Köln/Wien: Böhlau, 2010. 135-154.
"What is a European? Letters from a European Americanist." In Theo D'haen/Iannis Goerlandt (eds.), Literature for Europe? Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009.
"The Southern Demiurge at Work: Modernism, Literary Theory, and William Faulkner's 'Dry September.'" Journal of Modern Literature 32:4 (2009) 22-33.
"Pragmatic Transcendence: 'Power and Weakness' and the Solar System According to Robert Kagan." PhiN (Philologie im Netz) 47 (2009) 85-97. http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin47/p47t8.htm
"Declin(at)ing the Sublime: Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat.'" Amerikastudien/American Studies 53:2 (2008) 137-51.
"Between Aesthetics and (Ethno-)Politics, Europe, America, and Beyond: Cosmopolitanism from Henry James to Toni Morrison." W. Fluck/S. Brandt (eds.), Transnational American Studies, REAL Vol. 23 (Tuebingen: Narr, 2007) 97-112.
"'Blotted Out': Richard Wright's Native Son and the Limits of Narrative Ethics." Annals of Scholarship 17:1 (Summer 2007) 31-69.
"Enigmatic Circles: Approaching the Ethics of Myth Through N. Scott Momaday." Amerikastudien/American Studies 51:4 (2006) 523-38.
"Rainbows, Fogs, and Other Smokescreens: Billy Budd and the Question of Ethics." Arizona Quarterly 62:4 (2006) 31-46.
"The Problem of the Other: Environmental Ethics and Western Moral Philosophy." S. Mayer/C. Gersdorf (eds.), Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006) 435-454.
"Muted Fanfares: The Topos of the Common Man in the Works of Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and James Agee." T. Claviez/U. Haselstein/S. Lemke (eds.), Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006) 289-313.
"Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents: The Politics of Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead." Klára Kolinska/Brigitte Georgi-Findlay (eds.), Contemporary Aboriginal Literature in North America, Litteraria Pragensia 30, Vol. 15 (2005) 17-27.