Emancipation by Relay: The Transmission of Political Acts in Freud, James, and Kant

IF 1.4 4区计算机科学 Q4 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1353/tae.2023.a901574

T. McNulty

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Abstract:This essay explores the transhistorical and intersubjective dimension of political acts. It focuses on the complex, contrapuntal relationship between the French and Haitian Revolutions as analyzed by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, which I read alongside Freud's Moses and Monotheism. In exploring the transmission of monotheism from the pharaoh Akhenaton to the Egyptian Moses (and through him to the Jewish religion), and of the doctrine of emancipation from Robespierre to Toussaint L'Ouverture (and back to the French people), Freud and James allow us to think about the role of a founding act in transmitting a political legacy. The act is not of the order of a program or a project, but a real kernel that resists easy codification and translation. Freud describes the act as leaving a "stamp," a kind of impression or inscription. "How," he asks of Moses, "did one single man come to stamp [prägen] his people with its definite character and determine its fate for millennia to come?" This transmission, like that of the Jacobins and their Haitian counterparts, is further remarkable in being non-linear and discontinuous, skipping many generations and crossing continents, but imposing itself nonetheless.

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传递的解放:弗洛伊德、詹姆斯和康德政治行为的传递

摘要:本文探讨政治行为的超历史维度和主体间性维度。它关注的是C.L.R.詹姆斯(C.L.R. James)在《黑色雅各宾派》(the Black Jacobins)中所分析的法国革命和海地革命之间复杂的对位关系，我把这本书和弗洛伊德的《摩西与一神教》(Moses and Monotheism)放在一起读。在探索一神论从法老阿肯那顿到埃及摩西(并通过他传播到犹太宗教)的传播，以及从罗伯斯庇尔到杜桑·卢维杜尔(并回到法国人民)的解放教义的传播过程中，弗洛伊德和詹姆斯让我们思考了一项创始法案在传播政治遗产中的作用。这个行为不是一个程序或一个项目的顺序，而是一个真正的内核，它抵制简单的编纂和翻译。弗洛伊德将这种行为描述为留下“印记”，一种印象或铭文。“一个人，”他问摩西，“是怎么来给他的人民打上(prägen)明确的性格印记，并决定他们未来几千年的命运的?”这种传承，就像雅各宾派和他们的海地同行一样，在非线性和不连续方面更加引人注目，跨越了许多代人，跨越了大陆，但仍然给人留下了深刻的印象。

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Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications 数学-应用数学

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

5.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.