Articles By: Eric Gans

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• No. 197, Whither GA?
• No. 196, Levels of Intentionality
• No. 195, Language Origin in History IX: Durkheim and Sacred Representation (I)
• No. 194, Body and Soul
• No. 193, Culture vs. Exchange
• No. 192, Language Origin in History VIII: Max Müller’s Originary Sunrise
• No. 191, Language Origin in History VII: Herder’s Bleating Sheep
• No. 190, Does God Exist?
• No. 189, Language Origin in History VI: Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages
• No. 188, Adorers of Literature Scared of Criticism
• No. 187, Oulipo
• No. 186, Three Kinds of Authority
• No. 185, Language Origin in History V: Rousseau’s Prelinguistic Pity
• no. 184, Sacrificing Culture
• No. 183, Language Origin in History IV Rousseau: Language and Unanimity
• No. 182, Science and Faith in Kansas
• No. 181, GA Futurism
• No. 180, Postmodern GA
• No. 179, Language Origin in History III: Condillac’s Originary Scene (Part 2)
• No. 178, Language Origin in History II: Condillac’s Originary Scene (Part 1)
• No. 177, Herostratus Revisited
• No. 176, History of Language Origin I: Hobbes and Rousseau
• No. 175, Was There an Origin of Language?
• No. 174, Ending History
• No. 173, Toujours le Meme
• No. 172, Kosovo: War in the Postwar Era
• No. 171, The Origin of Religion: Preliminary Reflections
• No. 170, COV&R Story
• No. 169, The Little Bang Theory
• No. 168, The Origin of Language III: Toward Synthesis
• No. 167, The Origin of Language II: Scientific Perspectives
• No. 166, Back to the Origin of Language
• No. 165, The Marx-Freud Alliance
• No. 164, Is Anthropology Empirical?
• No. 163, Deconstructing the Subject
• No. 162, Failure of Mimetic Theory?
• No. 161, Thinking Religion
• No. 160, Michael Jordan’s Productive Resentment
• No. 159, Socratic GA
• No. 158, Impeachment
• No. 157, The Voice of Authority
• No. 156, Proust’s Homosexual Modernity
• No. 155, Antisemitism and Market Phobia
• No. 154, In the Beginning Was the Word
• No. 153, Beyond the Nation-State
• No. 152, Titanic and the Decline of Narrative
• No. 151, Clinton and the Sacrificial Paradigm
• No. 150, Clinton in Paris
• No. 149, Visiting the Getty
• No. 148, Spielberg’s Tales of Survival
• No. 147, Private Ryan: The Unknown Survivor
• No. 146, The Art of Resentment
• No. 145, Beyond “Generative Anthropology” 2. Resistance to (Mimetic) Theory
• No. 144, Beyond “Generative Anthropology” 1. Deferring Resentment
• No. 143, Personal Origins of GA 4. Class and Universality
• No. 142, A Thought for Independence Day
• No. 141, On Looking Into Branagh’s Hamlet
• No. 140, On Not Receiving a Promotion
• No. 139, Programming and Thinking
• No. 137, Appeals to Authority
• No. 138, The Rhetoric of God
• No. 136, The Moral Contradiction of Liberalism
• No. 135, The End of Literature and the Beginning of Literary History
• No. 134, Consumption As Production
• No. 133, Mind and Brain
• No. 132, The Sign, the Thing, and Titanic (Guest Chronicler: Matthew Schneider)
• No. 131, The Full Monty
• No. 130, Our Oral Culture
• No. 129, What is an Author?
• No. 128, The Erotic
• No. 127, The Body Sacrificial, Revisited
• No. 126, Origin and Structure
• No. 125, Presidential Kneepads and Phallic Religion
• No. 124, The Market Model: Three Points
• No. 123, On Political Economy
• No. 122, Personal Origins of GA 3. The Pursuit of Amateurism
• No. 121, The End of Seinfeld
• No. 120, Victimage and Virtual Inclusion
• No. 119, God is Love
• No. 118, Marcus Borg’s Spiritual God
• No. 117, The Problem of the Subject
• No. 116, External and Internal Mediation
• No. 115, Phallogocentrism
• No. 114, More On Celebrity
• No. 113, Personal Origins of GA 2. Bronx Romanticism and Theoretical Minimalism
• No. 112, What is Postmodernism?
• No. 111, Personal Origins of GA: 1. Bronx Romanticism
• No. 110, Resistance to GA
• No. 109, Carnal Knowledge
• No. 108, On Celebrity
• No. 107, Originary Democracy
• No. 106, Cultural Elevation (Cultural Studies series no. 3)
• No. 105, Laughing at Anthropology
• No. 104, Love and Originary Violence
• No. 103, Models of Identity
• No. 102, The Critique of Love
• No. 101, Comparative Literature and Global Culture (Cultural Studies series no. 2)
• No. 100, Love, Resentment, and Generative Anthropology
• No. 99, Ending the Era of Suspicion
• No. 98, Cultural Studies & GA (First of a Series)
• No. 97, Resentment, Guilt, Compassion, and Injustice
• No. 96, Poetry After the End of Culture
• No. 95, Futurism and Sexuality
• No. 94, Love and Reciprocity
• No. 93, Once More, the End of Culture
• No. 92, A Rembrandt in an Elevator
• No. 91, States of Identity
• No. 90, Antisemitism, White and Black
• No. 89, Heaven’s Gate, Post Mortem
• No. 88, Free Will and Cosmological Idiocy
• No. 87, Herostratus Forever
• No. 86, Technological Realism
• No. 85, Cool GA (Guest Chronicler: Andrew McKenna)
• No. 84, Beyond Denial
• No. 83, Film Open and Closed
• No. 82, George Soros and the Open Society
• No. 81, Questions of Interpretation
• No. 80, Triangular Utopias
• No. 79, Why the Humanities Need GA
• No. 78, Optimists and Pessimists
• No. 77, Resentment, Individual and Collective
• No. 76, A GA Conversation with Richard van Oort (III)
• No. 75, Evolution and the Human
• No. 74, Gangsters and Jews
• No. 73, Public and Private
• No. 72, A GA Conversation with Richard van Oort (II)
• No. 71, Talking About God
• No. 70, Three Models of Culture
• No. 69, A GA Conversation with Richard van Oort (I)
• No. 68, The Minimal Ethic
• No. 67, God and Woody Allen
• No. 66, Generative Spirituality
• No. 65, Election Special: Two Points About the Presidential Campaign
• No. 64, Avoiding Armageddon
• No. 63, Age, Love, and Culture
• No. 62, Assisted Suicide: The Body as Internal Other
• No. 61, Radical Thinking and Neopolitics
• No. 60, Civil Society
• No. 59, Beyond Suspicion
• No. 58, Conversation and Education
• No. 57, Garrison Keillor and Cultural Irony
• No. 56, Love and Transcendence
• No. 55, Terror in the Global Village
• No. 54, Sacrificial Stories
• No. 53, The Feminization of Sport Narrative
• No. 52, Generative Paleoanthropology
• No. 51, Differences of Scale
• No. 50, Really the End of Culture?
• No. 49, Happy Anniversary!
• No. 48, Seinfeld and Sacrality
• No. 47, The Humanities Profession
• No. 46, On Programming and Ponds
• No. 45, Science and Culture or How Real is Real? Reflections on the “Sokal Debate” (Guest Chronicler: Richard van Oort)
• No. 44, Is GA Impossible?
• No. 43, Female Genital Mutilation: Cultural Relativism and Moral Absolutism
• No. 42, Tarentino Transcendence
• No. 41, Two Types of Denial
• No. 40, Victimary Culture
• No. 39, Mimetic Simplicity
• No. 38, The Ethical Mission of GA
• No. 37, Minimal Thinking
• No. 36, Is GA Falsifiable?
• No. 35, The End of History
• No. 34, The Free Market
• No. 33, Male Generation
• No. 32, The Use of Literature
• No. 31, Love and Sexual Difference
• No. 30, Self-Righteousness
• No. 29, The Abortion Debate
• No. 28, Public Resentment, Private Love
• No. 27, No More Masterpieces?
• No. 26, The Honnête Homme
• No. 25, Culture Against the Market
• No. 24, Originary Thinking in a Nutshell
• No. 23, Brave New World?
• No. 22, Simplicity or Complexity?
• No. 21, Liberal or Conservative?
• No. 20, Toujours l’amour
• No. 19, Amo quia absurdum
• No. 18, God told me to…
• No. 17, Perfide Manon
• No. 16, Posterity Will Absolve Me
• No. 15, Tel qu’en lui-meme…
• No. 14, Mimeticism and Feminism (Richard van Oort)
• No. 13, Abelard and Heloise
• No. 12, Sour Grapes
• No. 11, The Spirit of the Humanities
• No. 10, Vive le WWW!
• No. 9, Paradoxes of Love and Resentment
• No. 8, Above Politics?
• No. 7, The Body Sacrificial
• No. 6, Resentment and Love
• No. 5, The Simpson Trial
• No. 4, “I love you”
• No. 3, in memoriam Nicholas Collaros
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