"The failing of contemporary criticism is double: Hand in hand with the suppression of aesthetic autonomy, one finds a…"

"The more rigorously criticism historicizes a work of art, in the sense of lodging it in the context of the moment of …"

"Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to …"

"The simultaneity of the disappearance of literature (as aesthetic) and history (as development), which we can observe…"

"The modern reading of ancient literature involves a mode of reception that is not merely scholarly or antiquarian. In…"

"The point is not that contemporaneity is insignificant. ... It is rather that there is something more important at st…"

"Benjamin describes the revolutionary moment when the past suddenly bursts into the present, as if rising from the gra…"

"Periodization sequesters human experience. The historicist separation of the past from the present prohibits empathy …"

"The relevance of canonicity has nothing to do with the notion of codified establishments of hierarchical judgment (fo…"

"The assertion of the priority of contemporaneity, the celebration of the present, defines the politics of periodizati…"