EpochPub Date : 2006-10-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20061027
G. Bennington
{"title":"The Fall of Sovereignty","authors":"G. Bennington","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061027","url":null,"abstract":"Reflecting on the fall or failure of sovereignty, this essay considers Derrida's recent work under the heading of auto-immunity, and develops some consequences of that work, first of all in the political sphere (especially around democracy), but also some more general consequences around conceptuality itself.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"10 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":"129138782","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/EPOCHE20061023
M. Hobson
{"title":"Hostilities and Hostages (to Fortune): On Some Part of Derrida’s Reception","authors":"M. Hobson","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061023","url":null,"abstract":"This piece asks a simple question, one simply obvious after the New York Times obituary of Jacques Derrida: how is it,why is it,that his workhas been attacked in act and in words? And why more violently than the other great contemporaries of that period, of whom only Kristeva is still alive: Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Lacan? It tries out various possibilities: envy, power struggles among various intellectual groupings of the same generation, the location of philosophy in the present tree of knowledge, to conclude that the particularizing feature of his work which sparked such aggressivity may be his use of language.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"14 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":"115184669","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/EPOCHE20061024
Gil Anidjar
{"title":"Traité de Tous les Noms (What Is Called Naming)","authors":"Gil Anidjar","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061024","url":null,"abstract":"What's in a name after Derrida? What's in a name after all? What is a name such that it always already remains, after all is said and done? And who or what is it that one calls name, names, or by name? Is it possible (for anyone or anything) not to have a name of one's own? Or to have another? The same as another? Is it possible to call and recall, in the name of memory and remembrance, indifference or convention, one name for another, one name for the other? Can the name be, as it were, avoided? Could anyone respond responsibly yet decline or resist, not so much that (or because) names wound, nor to protect oneself from being called names, but instead neither to call nor respond to the name, as it were, to the very same name one is called? To protest against the name, to refuse the name to the point of abandoning this and that name? To invent oneself beyond the name, beyond all names, in the name of the name? \"For in order to live oneself truly,\" Derrida writes, \"it is necessary to elude the law of the name, the familial law made for survival and constantly recalling me to death\" What is called naming? One could say that the name is, to life, at once insult and injury. Or that calling names-mourning.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"6 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":"130895267","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/EPOCHE200610214
Rodolphe Gasché
{"title":"Thinking, without wonder","authors":"Rodolphe Gasché","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200610214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200610214","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike all the major thinkers in the phenomenological tradition, but contemporary French philosophers as well,who are indebted to this tradition Jacques Derrida, it seems, has never explicitly taken up the venerable question of philosophy's origin in wonder. Is one to conclude from this that Derrida's philosophy is a philosophy without wonder? Yet, what would it mean to philosophize without wonder? Or, by contrast, is Derrida's philosophical thought engaged in multiplying wonder with the result that there is in his thought more wonder than one thinks?","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"52 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131830893","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 : 2006-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200611126
Philippa Hopkins
{"title":"Zeno's boêtheia tôi logôi : Thought problems about problems for thought","authors":"Philippa Hopkins","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200611126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200611126","url":null,"abstract":"This essay addresses two central issues that continue to trouble interpretation of Zeno's paradoxes: 1) their solution, and 2) their place in the history of philosophy. I offer an account of Zeno's work as pointing to an inevitable paradox generated by our ways of thinking and speaking about things, especially about things as existing in the continua of space and time. In so doing, I connect Zeno's arguments to Parmenides' critique of \"naming\" in Fragment 8, an approach that I believe adds considerably to our understanding of both Zeno's puzzles and this enigmatic aspect of Parmenides' thought. The chief objection against all abstract reasonings is derived from the ideas of space and time; ideas, which, in common life and to a care- less view, are very clear and intelligible, but when they pass through the scrutiny of the profound sciences (and they are the chief object of these sciences) afford principles, which seem full of absurdity and contradiction. No priestly dogmas, invented on purpose to tame and subdue the rebellious reason of mankind, ever shocked common sense more than the doctrine of the infi nite divisibility of extension, with its consequences; as they are pompously displayed by all geome- tricians and metaphysicians, with a kind of triumph and exultation. A real quantity, infi nitely less than any fi nite quantity, containing quantities infi nitely less than itself, and so on in infi nitum; this is an edifi ce so bold and prodigious, that it is too weighty for any pretended demonstration to support, because it shocks the clearest and most natural principles of human reason.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131033593","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 : 2006-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200611123
Emanuela Bianchi
{"title":"Material Vicissitudes and Technical Wonders: The Ambiguous Figure of Automaton in Aristotle's Metaphysics of Sexual Difference","authors":"Emanuela Bianchi","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200611123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200611123","url":null,"abstract":"In Aristotle's physics and biology, matter's capacity for spontaneous, opaque, chance deviation is named by automaton and marked with a feminine sign, while at the same time these mysterious motions are articulated, rendered knowable and predictable via the figure of ta automata, the automatic puppets. This paper traces how automaton functions in the Aristotelian text as a symptomatic crossing-point, an uncanny and chiasmatic figure in which materiality and logos, phusis, and techne, death and life, masculine and feminine, are intertwined and articulated. Automaton permits a mastery of generative materiality for teleological metaphysics, but also works to unsettle teleology's systematic and unifying aspirations.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128577226","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 : 2006-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200611121
Dennis J. Schmidt
{"title":"Anything But a Series of Footnotes: Some Comments on John Sallis’s Platonic Legacies","authors":"Dennis J. Schmidt","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200611121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200611121","url":null,"abstract":"S Whitehead's widely cited and accepted remark that the history of philosophy is but a series of footnotes to Plato has implications for how both Plato and the history of philosophy is to be understood. Such an understanding does an injustice to both Plato and the history of philosophy. A recent book by John Sallis, Platonic Legacies, presents us with a counterview, one that offers a more exciting view of both Plato and the meaning of his legacy for the history of philosophy. The chief purpose of this article is to unpack some of Sallis's contributions in this regard.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115709390","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 : 2006-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE20061119
Alessandra Fussi
{"title":"“As the Wolf Loves the Lamb”: Need, Desire, Envy, and Generosity in Plato’s Phaedrus","authors":"Alessandra Fussi","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE20061119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE20061119","url":null,"abstract":"The Phaedrus's Palinode ascribes to the wing the double function of lifting the soul towards truth while itself being nourished by truth. The paper concentrates on the role Socrates ascribes to the wing in the structure and 'physiology' of the soul-mortal and divine-as well as on the role it plays in Socrates' subsequent phenomenological description of falling in love. The experience of love described in Socrates e' first speech-an experience dominated by envy-is examined in light of Socrates' Palinode, by reference to Socrates' account of the different ways souls can relate to truth before incarnation.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133557233","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 : 2006-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200611122
Russell Winslow
{"title":"On the Nature of Epagôgê","authors":"Russell Winslow","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200611122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200611122","url":null,"abstract":"This essay pursues an interpretation of epagoge in Aristotle in order to challenge the current claims in the scholarship that Aristotle's method of discovery is, on the one hand, empirical or, on the other hand, a priori. In contrast to these claims, this essay offers a reading of the Analytica in conjunction with the Physics in order to propose the following: if we are to think through Aristotle's method of discovery, we must first unhinge ourselves from the oppositional paradigm of empirical contra conceptual. Through the example of Aristotle's inquiry into nature, it is shown that Aristotle's method of discovery is, at once, one intimately betrothed to \"conceptual\" (or, more properly, \"dialogical\") resources, while also subtended by a comportment itself wakeful and perceptive of the being undergoing inquiry.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134303528","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 : 2006-04-01DOI: 10.5840/EPOCHE200611111
C. Baracchi
{"title":"Words of Air: On Breath and Inspiration","authors":"C. Baracchi","doi":"10.5840/EPOCHE200611111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/EPOCHE200611111","url":null,"abstract":"(1) In Plato's Phaedrus divine inspiration comes literally to mean \"environmental inspiration.\" Intimated thereby is the insufficiency of all reflection on the divine and the natural which would fail to interrogate these categories precisely in their convergence, indeed, in their being (at) one. (2) The theme of inspiration, in its divine or elemental character, necessarily raises further questions concerning the status of inspired utterance-that is, in this case, of philosophical discourse itself. (3) These themes finally point to the problem of the provenance of speaking and writing, if not from a purely active and free subject.","PeriodicalId":202733,"journal":{"name":"Epoch","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129745344","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}