Hey gav, The only downside with some of the rhetoric produced by some (usually French) Continental philosophers is the misleading connotations produced by the march of meanings of words. For instance, "fiction"--while it punches up the antithesis to realist/Platonic talk about an immutable "found" world (talk Foucault and Derrida were apt to use, too), I think at a certain point it loses its currency: I didn't "make up" the tiger that's eating me.
But, going back to the Greek term poiesis, making, does punch up something right about the kind of consciousness peculiar to homo sapien, reflected in Nietzsche's slogan that truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms. Matt > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 02:28:16 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MD] continental and analytic philosophy > > been thinking about the differing approaches to philosophy that these > traditions use...seems v relevant to what's going on here - think the > disputes arising here illuminate an epistemological divide along these lines. > > been reading about deleuze and getting a lot out of him: > > '[deleuze] argue that the human subject and its stable outside world was a > fiction produced within the flow of experience - "the world (continuity and > distinction) is an outright fiction of the imagination"' > > > perfect correlation... > > the word 'fiction' here is key _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
