The peer-reviewed journal of Generative Anthropology, founded by Eric Gans at UCLA. Published 1995–2024 (Vols 1–30), featuring essays by Van Oort, Bartlett, Dennis, Ludwigs, McKenna, Goldman, Eshelman, Gans, Girard, and others.
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Ben Barber is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature Studies at United International College: Hong Kong Baptist University – Beijing Normal University. He teaches courses on...
Abstract Eric Gans’s conception of the origin of metaphysics leads him to conclusions about metaphysics similar to those held by Lev Shestov, an early twentieth-century philosopher who exerted a...
Abstract This article examines Generative Anthropology with respect to its hypothesis that deferral is at the foundation of the human and draws out elements of GA as a lived philosophy or “spiritual...
Editor’s Note: This book will be available for sale by November 11 at : Generative Anthropology in Contexts and Texts (uksw.edu.pl) Downloadable PDF version of review * * * Magdalena...
Andrew Bartlett taught “university writing” and literary analysis at Kwantlen Polytechnic University until his retirement in 2022. He has published reviews in Subterrain , Canadian Literature, COV&R...
Abstract The uncompromising human exceptionalism of generative anthropology risks leaving the impression of a disrespect in GA of animal minds. Michael Bavidge and Ian Ground’s investment in the...
Richard van Oort has followed up his remarkable Shakespeare’s Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment (University of Toronto, 2016) with a somewhat more sharply focused monograph. Where...
Abstract In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream the addition of the various framing devices to Pyramus and Thisbe begins with Bottom’s desire to monopolize the stage. The craftsmen’s...
Abstract We hypothesize swapping the anthropological vocabulary derivative of central banking (with concepts like “self-interested individuals” and “market forces”) with a new minimal vocabulary...