Here is what Derrida said in the documentary (3 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya46wfeWqJk On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:42 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > 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 ___ 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
