EpochPub Date : 2007-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20071215
María del Rosario Acosta López
{"title":"Beauty as an Encounter between Freedom and Nature: A Romantic Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Judgment","authors":"María del Rosario Acosta López","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20071215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20071215","url":null,"abstract":"This essay presents a possible interpretation of the concept of beauty in Kant's Critique of Judgment, which was itself suggested by Kant in the two introductions to the text and gained force among the Early German Romantics and Idealists, introducing an alternative point of view into the concept of beauty and the role it plays in the relationship between reason and sensibility, man and world. Through the analysis of the four moments of the Analytic of the Beautiful, beauty will manifest itself as the realm in which a special encounter between human freedom and nature takes place. Therefore, and as an alternative to some traditional interpretations of Kant's aesthetic investigation,which understand Kant's judgment of taste exclusively on the basis of its subjective conditions, the judgment of beauty will present itself also in the relationship it establishes with the objects of nature.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123109302","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}
EpochPub Date : 2007-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200712110
David LaRocca
{"title":"Changing the Subject: The Auto/biographical as the Philosophical in Wittgenstein","authors":"David LaRocca","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200712110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200712110","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I investigate our understanding of what counts as philosophical. Using the life and work ofWittgenstein as a test case, I take a close look at how various Wittgenstein scholars relate to work other than the principal and accepted philosophical texts (such as the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations), and suggest that there is an inconsistency in the criteria of what we can and should be taking seriously for philosophical purposes; sometimes there is inconsistency of use (one thing is said, another is done), and sometimes there is inconsistency in the form of occlusion (the scholar simply avoids the chance (or responsibility) to define terms). Guarding against advocacy for essentialism, I argue that philosophers might benefit from a more direct and explicit engagement with the criteria they use when writing about the philosophical significance of material other than dominant texts.That engagement, however, reveals that the pursuit of criteria is at odds with the spirit of Wittgenstein's philosophy. As a result, we stand in need of an alternative method of discerning what counts. I suggest that, in the context of Wittgenstein's work, such a method is a matter of approach, not criteria. Perhaps this method can extend beyond Wittgenstein's work to a general view of what counts as philosophical.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114355053","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}
EpochPub Date : 2007-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20071218
K. Aho
{"title":"Gender and Time : Revisiting the Question of Dasein's Neutrality","authors":"K. Aho","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20071218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20071218","url":null,"abstract":"Many critics have attempted to give an account of a gendered incarnation of Dasein in response to Heidegger's \"neutral\" or \"asexual\" interpretation. In this paper, I suggest gendered readings of Dasein are potentially misleading. I argue Dasein is gendered only to the extent that \"the Anyone\" (das Man)-understood as relational background of social practices, institutions, and languages-constitutes the space or \"clearing\" (Lichtung) of intelligibility. However, this reading misrepresents the core motivation of Heidegger's early project, namely to arrive at \"temporality\" (Zeitlich-keit) as the original source of any intelligibility whatsoever. For Heidegger, Dasein is to be understood in terms of the twofold movement of being \"thrown\" into the Past (Vergangenheit) and \"projecting\" into the Future (Zukunft). It is only the basis of the neutral temporal structures of\"thrown projection\" that beings can emerge-into-presence as such, enabling us to make sense of our Present (Gegenwart) gendered practices in the first place.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116685116","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}
EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200610217
L. Lawlor
{"title":"“For the Creation Waits with Eager Longing for the Revelation”: From the Deconstruction of Metaphysics to the Deconstruction of Christianity in Derrida","authors":"L. Lawlor","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200610217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200610217","url":null,"abstract":"Blindness has been a pervasive theme throughout Derrida's career. But Derrida uses the word \"blindness\" only once in the title of one his works. This text is, of course, Memoirs of the Blind, Memoires d'aveugle, an essay he wrote for the catalogue for an exhibition he organized at the Louvre in 1990.1 argue that Memoirs of the Blind is more than just a phase in Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. Instead, it opens a larger, more ambitious project that we can call \"the deconstruction of Christianity.\" The article ends with a consideration of a new form of vitalism.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115093462","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}
EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20061021
Kas Saghafi
{"title":"The Ghost of Jacques Derrida","authors":"Kas Saghafi","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061021","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the phrase-\"here, now, yes, believe me, I believe in ghosts\"-a phrase uttered by Derrida in a filmed interview. It takes up Derrida's avowal ofbelief in ghosts, not simply to explain the significance of \"ghosts,\" simulacra, doubles, hence images, in Derrida's work and to show their relation to death and mourning, or to merely draw an analogy between the structure of doubles or simulacra and what we may call \"synthetic\" images, but also to attend to the alliance between the image, the ghostly, and belief.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"77 1-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126987859","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}
EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200610213
Simon Critchley
{"title":"Derrida: The Reader","authors":"Simon Critchley","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200610213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200610213","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I address the issue of Derrida's influence on philosophy by focusing on the nature of deconstructive reading as double reading, and tracing this to the specific reception of Heidegger's thesis on the history of being. After reviewing some of the dubious and mistaken polemics against Derrida, I go on to describe what 1 see as the ethical and political richness of Derrida's work, focusing in particular on the theme of democracy to come.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125338525","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}
EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200610212
D. Krell
{"title":"One, Two, Four—Yet Where Is the Third? A Note on Derrida’s Geschlecht Series","authors":"D. Krell","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200610212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200610212","url":null,"abstract":"Derrida's Geschlecht series, along with the books Of Spirit and Aporias, constitutes his most sustained close-reading of Heidegger. Three essays of the four-part Geschlecht series have been published: the first, second, and fourth, these together comprising some 130 book pages. The third Geschlecht exists only as a thirty-three-page typescript prepared sometime before March 1985 and distributed to the speakers at a colloquium in Chicago organized by John Sallis. These thirty-three pages are among the 100 to 130 pages that Derrida by his own account devoted to Heidegger's Trakl essay of 1953 (\"Die Sprache im Gedicht\"); however provisional and fragmentary, the typescript tells us much about the themes that \"magnetize\" the entire Geschlecht series.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"51 Suppl 53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121960007","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}
EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20061026
Peggy Kamuf
{"title":"From Now On","authors":"Peggy Kamuf","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061026","url":null,"abstract":"In the wake of Derrida's disappearance, this essay asks the question of how to take responsibility, now, for the world one is left to bear. It retraces the path Derrida followed in thinking the event of a coming world and isolates a number of concepts that assumed prominence in his late work: sovereignty, unconditionality, possibility, ipseity. Drawing on the essay \"The Reason of the Strongest\" in Rogues, it discerns an important distinction made between sovereignty and unconditionality, and situates Derrida's work as an explicit rethinking of the concept of possibility. It argues that this work offers significant leverage, conceptually and practically, on the legacy of sovereignty as the right of the strongest.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131859000","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}
EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20061022
T. Dutoit
{"title":"Dare He Die, Dear Reader: Obligasequence, Obliquence, Oblivisequence, Oblicksequence, Ébloubélierséquence","authors":"T. Dutoit","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061022","url":null,"abstract":"The epigraph from Adieu. A Emmanuel Levinas for this issue is here throughout the linchpin, the Triebfeder or the spring, the feather of impulse,of drive or of desire, out of which this paper attempts to formulate the relation,\"in Derrida,\" of desire and obligation, sexual pleasure and moral law, Emmanuel Levinas and Immanuel Kant, the letters b + 1 (and thus the words and things called eblouissement [dazzlement], obligation, oblivion, obliquity, bells and cloches, Mallarmean alarms), mourning and melancholy, but and butt, rams (beliers) and rebellion, rebellion and oblivion, good conscience and good unconsciousness, and, ultimately, non-reading and reading.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130841261","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}
EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20061028
J. Derrida
{"title":"A Europe of Hope","authors":"J. Derrida","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124841092","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}