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William Egginton

Born

in Syracuse, New York, The United States

March 24, 1969

Genre

Spanish Language Literature, Psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy

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William Egginton is a literary critic and philosopher. He has written extensively on a broad range of subjects, including theatricality, fictionality, literary criticism, psychoanalysis and ethics, religious moderation, and theories of mediation. William Egginton was born in Syracuse, New York in 1969. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1999. His doctoral thesis, "Theatricality and Presence: a Phenomenology of Space and Spectacle in Early Modern France and Spain," was written under the direction of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. He currently resides with his wife, Bernadette Wegenstein, and their three children, in Baltimore, Maryland. William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 1,855 ratings · 345 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality 4.25 avg rating — 1,473 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World 3.70 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 2016 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses 3.89 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Defense of Religious Moderation 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Philosopher’s Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought by William Egginton (editor), Mike Sandbothe (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alejandro Jodorowsky: Filmmaker and Philosopher by William Egginton, Costică Brădățan (Series Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thinking With Borges by William Egginton, David E. Johnson (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Aristotle stipulates that “the poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose … The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”
― William Egginton, The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

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“We never encounter our own self in this very instant as anything other than the trace of our relation to some other instant, receding before us or arising ahead.”
― William Egginton, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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“How did he do it? How did this adventurer and soldier; crippled in the service of his king and country; kidnapped and held in slavery in the dungeons of Algiers for five long years; who returned to his country hoping in vain to be granted a post worthy of his name and sacrifices; who was reduced to collecting taxes for an unpopular government; who was sued and sent to prison on multiple occasions—how did this man invent a way of writing that would be so different from what came before it and have such a profound impact on what would follow?”
― William Egginton, The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

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