Table of Contents
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Foreword
Do Theories Ever Travel?
Victor K. Mendes / João Cezar de Castro Rocha
15
The Materiality of Presence: Notes on Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s Theoretical Project
Pierpaolo Antonello
27
Lost in Focused Intensity: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s Hymn to Sports
Horst Bredekamp
31
The "Soft Terror" of Deconstruction
René Girard
41
In Praise of Focused Intensity
Stephen Greenblatt
47
Points of Style
Robert Pogue Harrison
53
Critical Reading After Gumbrecht
Victor K. Mendes
73
Some Thoughts on the Physics of Presence
Andrea Nightingale
83
Materialities of Communication: A Parallel Campaign from the Comrade-in-Arms
Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer
93
What’s the Matter with Presence?
Joan Ramon Resina
105
Match Point—Is Sports History Possible?
João Cezar de Castro Rocha
129
On Production of Presence
Richard Rorty
133
Gumbrecht’s "Presence" Between Musil and Heidegger
Kathrin Rosenfield
149
Interpretation in a Package
Miguel Tamen
157
Literary Aesthetics: The Very Idea
Lindsay Waters
173
In-12 Versus In-folio
Abel Barros Baptista
191
Here Lies Nothing: Ghosts of Empire in Portuguese India
K. David Jackson
215
Another Look at Identities
José Luís Jobim
229
Allophone Presences, in the ‘Here-and-Now’ of the Humanities
Christopher Larkosh
243
Repress the Desire for Eternity, or, Stop Making Sense of History!
Luís Madureira
253
On How to Compact a Text, or, La Rochefoucauld in the Tropics
Pedro Meira Monteiro
267
The Senses of In-Materiality
Evando Nascimento
287
Portuguese Actually: The "Special Relationship" meets the "Oldest Alliance"
Hilary Owen
297
From Oral Transmission to Written Text: The Construction of Emerging Literary Systems
Francisco Salinas Portugal
315
Driftings from Gumbrecht and Lyotard: The Concepts of "Figural" and "Presence"
Marília Librandi Rocha
331
Teaching Desire: The Aleatory in Ethics and the Aesthetic Experience
Phillip Rothwell
339
Afterword Will my Present have a Future?
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
353
Remarks on "Will my Present have a Future?"
Arbogast Schmitt
359
Contributors and Translators