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{"title":"In This Issue 13.02","authors":"J. Wirth, Jennifer Liu","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1995686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1995686","url":null,"abstract":"We follow up our special issue on Argentinian philosophy with a selection of essays that continue to expand and pluralize our sense of the philosophical enterprise. In “Aesthetic Negation and Citation: Levinas, Agnon, and the Paradox of Literature,” Lawrence Harvey complicates our expectation that Levinas had an ethical aversion to literature. Not only is Totality and Infinity, for example, bracketed with literary allusions, his mature work makes frequent and appreciative use of it. The author turns to S. Y. Agnon (1888–1970) to offer a complementary model of the ethical force of the kind of literature that “‘de-nucleates’ the totalizing solidity of the underlying Platonic forms.” In “Is Anti-Oedipus Really a Critique of Psychoanalysis?” Axel Chemiavsky explores the foundations of critique in Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus and suggests that the authors combine a Kantian delimitation of the synthesis of the unconsciousness and Nietzsche’s conception of life. Chemiavsky proceeds by first looking at how Anti-Oedipus tries to distinguish between the illegitimate and legitimate uses of synthesis, turning to the question of the object for critique. Psychoanalysis as a conception of life, as Deleuze and Guattari formulate it, is a particular “configuration of desire” where desire itself is multiple. Leo Kwok looks at the problem of what makes understanding philosophical traditions across cultures possible or impossible. The dilemma that either one “assimilates” one tradition into the other or declares an “incommunicability” thesis assumes that intercultural understanding is identical to intercultural philosophy. To solve this dilemma Kwok proposes an approach of intercultural dialogue which begins with questioning, supplemented by what he calls the “TQX model.” This technique (if one may call it so) is demonstrated through looking at ideas from the Mencius and Levinas. He concludes by giving an example of intercultural dialogue with an investigation into the concept of dao as “origin” and Derrida’s articulations of “genesis.” Jiani Fan pushes against the general conception that Nietzsche is an heir to the Ancient Skeptics, contending that Nietzsche’s position is much more ambivalent, his inheritance not without critique. Through an exploration of Nietzsche’s rhetoric, Fan examines the peculiarity of his literary style that, while indebted to the Pyrrhonians, nevertheless reveals an “assertive” yet “non-committal” perspective. This tension reveals a particular uncertainty in value judgments that do not allow for interrogation into presuppositions and criteria. Joshua Stoll in “Being to Being: Sartre, Ramchandra Gandhi, and Abhinavagupta on Intersubjectivity” critically intervenes into Sartre’s notorious assumption that “hell is other people” as we become trapped in the gaze (le regard) of others. Turning to the advaita or non-dual thought of the contemporary Indian philosopher Ramchandra Gandhi as well as the medieval Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta,","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"111 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41824664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life","authors":"Manhua Li","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1975765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1975765","url":null,"abstract":"Eric Nelson’s Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life unfolds as a concise and lucid guide to the major concepts of Daoism and is an inspiring and innovative exposition of the potentia...","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"199 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44729956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aesthetic Negation and Citation: Levinas, Agnon and the Paradox of Literature","authors":"L. Harvey","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1975762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1975762","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prima facie, the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas would seem to be inherently averse to literature as an ethical mode. Indeed, in his early work, up to and including Totality and Infinity (1961), literary art is often censured with what amounts to Platonic zeal. However, as I will demonstrate, this criticism stands alongside what is seemingly an incongruous use of literary art as a means of ethical exemplification. By exploring this tension, I will show how the contra-epistemic aesthetic of S. Y. Agnon (1888–1970) can be read within ethical terms consistent with Levinas’s philosophical position.","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"114 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47952426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Exception of Transcendence: The Political Theology of Kierkegaard and Das","authors":"M. Grimshaw","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1979531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1979531","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A continuation of Das’s deep engagement with political theology (that is, his political theology of Schelling [2016]), this text undertakes a deep and provocative reading of Kierkegaard’s political theology that strikes to the depths of our ontology. Positioned versus Church and State, a refutation of Christendom and its continuations in secular modernity, Kierkegaard’s political theology also exposes the limits and issues of Schmitt’s project. Tracing the influence of Schelling’s eschatological political theology upon Kierkegaard’s thought, Das articulates a political theology “to come” that is based upon the scandalous event of the crucifixion and in turn creates the scandalous ontology of the event. The result is an ontology lived in response to a negative political theology in which we live without probability within the event of Kierkegaardian sovereign love.","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"188 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41771916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor’s Preface","authors":"David. Jones","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.2001889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.2001889","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"113 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48537123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is Anti-Oedipus Really a Critique of Psychoanalysis?","authors":"A. Cherniavsky","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1975767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1975767","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT “: We cannot say psychoanalysts are very jolly people; see the dead look they have, their stiff necks.” In 1972, the tone Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari used in Anti-Oedipus caused an immediate public reaction: it was regarded as the mark of a fatal critique of psychoanalysis. However, critique, in philosophy, is used in certain technical and precise senses. We will try to demonstrate that, technically, Anti-Oedipus is a delimitation of a Kantian sort, an evaluation of a Nietzschean kind, and, finally, a divergence in terms of Deleuze himself. Thanks to this precision, we will find that the target of Anti-Oedipus is not psychoanalysis in general but what Deleuze and Guattari call, respectively, “the illegitimate use of the synthesis of the unconscious,” a conception of life presupposed by psychoanalysis, and a configuration of desire that explains both psychoanalysis and the system in which it functions.","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"125 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42612822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Being to Being: Sartre, Ramchandra Gandhi, and Abhinavagupta on Intersubjectivity","authors":"Joshua Stoll","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1975944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1975944","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores and critiques Sartre’s conception of being-for-others from a non-dual (advaita) perspective. His conception of intersubjectivity as being-for-others views the primary relation between oneself and others as oppressive and objectifying; the other, he says, is the death of my possibilities. It will be argued, however, that others also represent precisely the birth of one’s possibilities. To this end, we will interpret the relation of being to being from a non-dual (advaita) orientation through the work of the contemporary Indian philosopher Ramchandra Gandhi and the medieval Kashmiri polymath Abhinavagupta. Both of these thinkers emphasize the act of address as the primary relation between self-conscious beings, a relation that is fundamentally subjectifying rather than objectifying. Through address, we achieve what Sartre argues is impossible: a free recognition of each other as free self-conscious subjects.","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"167 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42655540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature","authors":"Yan Yan","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1978134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1978134","url":null,"abstract":"Are philosophy and literature different, both in the ways they communicate and the subjects they address? In Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature, the authors’ answer to t...","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"197 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46992775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Redeemed From Skepticism Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Inquiry (ζητϵῖν) and Tranquility (ἀταραξία) in Pyrrhonian Skeptics","authors":"Jiani Fan","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1975766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1975766","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Friedrich Nietzsche offers different opinions of the ancient Skeptics. On certain occasions, he praises them as philosophers of intellectual integrity, because they constantly question dogma and continue to inquire (ζητϵῖν) into the truth. He insists, however, that it is indispensable for every individual to adopt her own perspective in specific conditions, rather than suspend judgment as the Skeptics do. On other occasions, Nietzsche criticizes the ancient Skeptics because they separate their academic investigations from their philosophy of life and only comply with conventions or apparent phenomena observed through sensations. Furthermore, he ridicules their ultimate goal – tranquility of mind (ἀταραξία) – as a product of feeble exhaustion. He himself is ready to embrace torments of life as part of the will to power. Although some similarities can be traced between Nietzsche and the ancient Skeptics, Nietzsche is more consistent in connecting his theoretical investigation and his philosophy as a way of life.","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"142 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43256209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phenomenology and Intercultural Questioning A Case of Chinese Philosophy","authors":"Sai Hang Kwok","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2021.1975763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2021.1975763","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many recent works on the methodology of intercultural philosophy point to a fundamental dilemma of the discipline: if there is a common ground for intercultural understanding, then the essence of this ground is universal instead of multi-cultural; if there are irreducible and incommunicable factors in different cultures, then complete understanding seems to be impossible. In this paper, I propose that this dilemma is founded on the assumption that intercultural philosophy is equivalent to intercultural understanding. I argue that, however, intercultural philosophy should begin with questioning. Instead of understanding another culture using one’s own conceptual scheme, intercultural questioning puts one’s conceptual scheme and traditional worldview into question. The new questions obtained by phenomenologically reducing traditional thought will become a ground for intercultural dialogue without reducing one’s culture to another culture. Finally, I will use a case in Chinese philosophy to demonstrate the process of intercultural questioning.","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":"13 1","pages":"153 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43307458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}