Hi Matt. Speaking of Derrida, I watched a documentary about him with interviews. He mentioned the story of Narcissus and Echo. It was a fascinating explanation, but all too short for the camera. Do you know if he includes a fuller explanation of his views of the self as related to the Narcissus and Echo myth in any of his books?
Marsha On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Matt Kundert wrote: > > 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 ___ 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
