matthew feldman
Teesside University, History, Faculty Member
Chapter 1 'But What Was this Pursuit of Meaning, in this Indifference to Meaning?': Beckett, Husserl, Sartre and 'Meaning Creation' Matthew Feldman1 I Samuel Beckett's... more
Chapter 1 'But What Was this Pursuit of Meaning, in this Indifference to Meaning?': Beckett, Husserl, Sartre and 'Meaning Creation' Matthew Feldman1 I Samuel Beckett's wartime novel, Watt, confronts both characters and readers with fundamental dilemmas of meaning and ...
... Yale University Press, 272pp., hb. $28.00/£19.99. ISBN-13: 9780300111903; pb. $17.00. ISBN-13: 9780300164299. Matthew Feldman. Full Text: PDF. Equinox Publishing Ltd, Unit S3, Kelham House, 3 Lancaster Street, Sheffield, S3 8AF, UK.
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... Sell 'em Australia. ... the previous two examples, 'The Revolution Betrayed' is taken from the British Union Quarterly, a journal in which Pound published more frequently than any other contributor – in nine... more
... Sell 'em Australia. ... the previous two examples, 'The Revolution Betrayed' is taken from the British Union Quarterly, a journal in which Pound published more frequently than any other contributor – in nine of the first ten issues, in fact – more than runners-up Jorian Jenks, Arthur ...
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The following article provides a case study in political religion theory via exploration of a neglected Soviet journal, the USSR in Construction [SSSR na Stroike]. This journal, which appeared between January 1930 and June 1941, was... more
The following article provides a case study in political religion theory via exploration of a neglected Soviet journal, the USSR in Construction [SSSR na Stroike]. This journal, which appeared between January 1930 and June 1941, was ultimately published in five languages, and represented an important, propagandistic face to the non-communist world. Despite the entrench- ment of Socialist Realism at the time, this avant-garde publication continued to be published monthly by Stalin’s regime – until the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. Contribu- tors may be seen as propagandists, strangely enough, in an etymological sense: propagators of a faith – in this case a ‘political theology’ – on behalf of a Stalinist utopia that they believed was currently ‘under construction’.
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Lone wolf terrorism has a long and bloody past, even if the motivations and context of this tactic over the last three decades by right-wing extremists and, more recently, jihadi Islamists, has witnessed a noticeable spike with the onset... more
Lone wolf terrorism has a long and bloody past, even if the motivations and context of this tactic over the last three decades by right-wing extremists and, more recently, jihadi Islamists, has witnessed a noticeable spike with the onset of the Internet Age.
By approaching lone wolf terrorism as a generic phenomenon, this article will retrace both the historical trajectory and recent revival of this “self-activating” recourse to the “terrorist cycle.” This extends to an analysis of earlier waves of lone wolf terrorism (notably deriving from anarchist and leftist doctrines), as well as a survey of the sur- prisingly sparse academic literature on the subject in English. By way of contribution, this review of some key instances and interpretations of lone wolf terrorism pursues
two straightforward aims. The first is the identification of a nearly 150-year tradition of lone wolf terrorism now at its most ideologically disparate and potentially destructive,
and the second is a heuristic definition and accompanying discussion of pan-ideological, solo-activated terrorism.
By approaching lone wolf terrorism as a generic phenomenon, this article will retrace both the historical trajectory and recent revival of this “self-activating” recourse to the “terrorist cycle.” This extends to an analysis of earlier waves of lone wolf terrorism (notably deriving from anarchist and leftist doctrines), as well as a survey of the sur- prisingly sparse academic literature on the subject in English. By way of contribution, this review of some key instances and interpretations of lone wolf terrorism pursues
two straightforward aims. The first is the identification of a nearly 150-year tradition of lone wolf terrorism now at its most ideologically disparate and potentially destructive,
and the second is a heuristic definition and accompanying discussion of pan-ideological, solo-activated terrorism.
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Proofs of review article published in Holocaust Studies 6/3 (2011)
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Proofs for chapter in Nixon and Pilling, eds., 'On in their company: essays on Beckett, with tributes and sketches; presented to Jim Knowlson on his 80th Birthday' (Whiteknights Press, 2015)
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Proofs for chapter in Tonning, Feldman and Mead, eds., 'Modernism, Christianity and the Apocalypse' (Brill 2014)
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Proofs for chapter on the Italian neo-fascist movement CasaPound, originally published in Feldman and Jackson, eds., Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945
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The article traces the history of Ezra Pound’s engagement with Fascist politics and its contemporary influence on the far-right in America, Britain and Italy. It seeks to explore a political legacy of Pound’s, which is sometimes... more
The article traces the history of Ezra Pound’s engagement with Fascist politics and its contemporary influence on the far-right in America, Britain and Italy. It seeks to explore a political legacy of Pound’s, which is sometimes strangely at odds with his poetic legacy but on other occasions, informs and coalesces into the latter.
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Arrested in early May 1945 on charges of treason due to his propagandistic radio broadcasts for wartime Fascist Italy, Ezra Pound's escape from the hangman in 1945 has been ascribed to a number of factors: his international fame, his... more
Arrested in early May 1945 on charges of treason due to his propagandistic radio broadcasts for wartime Fascist Italy, Ezra Pound's escape from the hangman in 1945 has been ascribed to a number of factors: his international fame, his mental state at the end of the Second World War and even the vagaries of the treason laws in the USA.
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The following attempts to identify an implicit theoretical divergence already existing in Beckett Studies. Contrasting methodologies, albeit oftentimes im-plicitly, continue to approach Beckett's writing from markedly different... more
The following attempts to identify an implicit theoretical divergence already existing in Beckett Studies. Contrasting methodologies, albeit oftentimes im-plicitly, continue to approach Beckett's writing from markedly different per-spectives. One contributing factor to this dilemma is ...
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... 1. David Addyman and Matthew Feldman would like to acknowledge the Bergen Research Foundation and the University of Bergen, Norway for ... Taken from Archibald Alexander, A Short History of Philosophy (Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson and... more
... 1. David Addyman and Matthew Feldman would like to acknowledge the Bergen Research Foundation and the University of Bergen, Norway for ... Taken from Archibald Alexander, A Short History of Philosophy (Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson and co., 1922), 49-50; italics added. ...
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Through a consideration of the two representative critiques of Samuel Beckett's texts now generally accepted as dominant paradigms within the field namely existential humanism and post-structuralism this article attempts to... more
Through a consideration of the two representative critiques of Samuel Beckett's texts now generally accepted as dominant paradigms within the field namely existential humanism and post-structuralism this article attempts to locate some of the recurring inconsistencies inherent in their ...
The following article is a response to an ongoing debate over the significance of Martin Heidegger's political affiliation with National Socialism, an association still fiercely contested due the continuing influence of his work... more
The following article is a response to an ongoing debate over the significance of Martin Heidegger's political affiliation with National Socialism, an association still fiercely contested due the continuing influence of his work on fields as diverse as feminism, ecology, and deconstruction. This ...
