Rory Fox
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199285754
- eISBN:
- 9780191603563
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199285756.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter examines the question of whether 13th century thinkers viewed time as having its own existence in reality, or whether they considered it to have an existence which depended upon a mind. ...
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This chapter examines the question of whether 13th century thinkers viewed time as having its own existence in reality, or whether they considered it to have an existence which depended upon a mind. It is argued that an ambiguity exists at the heart of their thoughts on this matter; an ambiguity which sometimes expressed itself in affirmations that stressed the mind-independence of time, and yet at other times, seemed to imply a limited role for a mind. The two areas where this ambiguity becomes visible are: when they were considering the question of whether time exists in the present instant, and in relation to their views about the reality of temporal becoming.Less
This chapter examines the question of whether 13th century thinkers viewed time as having its own existence in reality, or whether they considered it to have an existence which depended upon a mind. It is argued that an ambiguity exists at the heart of their thoughts on this matter; an ambiguity which sometimes expressed itself in affirmations that stressed the mind-independence of time, and yet at other times, seemed to imply a limited role for a mind. The two areas where this ambiguity becomes visible are: when they were considering the question of whether time exists in the present instant, and in relation to their views about the reality of temporal becoming.
Noam Peleg
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199652501
- eISBN:
- 9780191739217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652501.003.0022
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter asks how the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child understands the meaning of the right to development of children. It begins by briefly presenting two conceptions of childhood — ...
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This chapter asks how the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child understands the meaning of the right to development of children. It begins by briefly presenting two conceptions of childhood — children as ‘becoming’ and children as ‘being’. It argues that, although a apparent paradigm shift in conceptualizing ‘childhood’ took place during the 1970s and 1980s, moving from the former to the latter concept, there is a doubt whether the Convention and the Committee reflect this shift. Using this presumption, the chapter analyses the Committee's jurisprudence of the right to development of children. It argues that the Committee's interpretation results in the Committee being entrenched within a conception of children as ‘becoming’ human beings and therefore it is mostly vague, lacks meaningful content, and undermines children's agency.Less
This chapter asks how the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child understands the meaning of the right to development of children. It begins by briefly presenting two conceptions of childhood — children as ‘becoming’ and children as ‘being’. It argues that, although a apparent paradigm shift in conceptualizing ‘childhood’ took place during the 1970s and 1980s, moving from the former to the latter concept, there is a doubt whether the Convention and the Committee reflect this shift. Using this presumption, the chapter analyses the Committee's jurisprudence of the right to development of children. It argues that the Committee's interpretation results in the Committee being entrenched within a conception of children as ‘becoming’ human beings and therefore it is mostly vague, lacks meaningful content, and undermines children's agency.
Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199594566
- eISBN:
- 9780191595721
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594566.003.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
Perspectives on Process Organization Studies is a new book series dedicated to the development of an understanding of organizations and organizing as processes in the making. This ...
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Perspectives on Process Organization Studies is a new book series dedicated to the development of an understanding of organizations and organizing as processes in the making. This opening chapter of the first volume introduces the foundations of and inspiration for process organization studies, exploring its connections to process rather than substance metaphysics, to process rather than variance theorizing, and to narrative rather than logico‐paradigmatic thinking. The chapter argues for the importance of a process perspective not only to enrich organizational theorizing, but also to contribute to organizational practice through a conception of individual and organizational action that fully recognizes context, flux, and temporality. Finally, the chapter discusses some of the choices and challenges underlying the adoption of a process perspective in empirical research, and situates the book series as a privileged outlet for rigorous scholarship that explicitly advances understanding of how the organizational world we experience is dynamically constituted, maintained, and changed.Less
Perspectives on Process Organization Studies is a new book series dedicated to the development of an understanding of organizations and organizing as processes in the making. This opening chapter of the first volume introduces the foundations of and inspiration for process organization studies, exploring its connections to process rather than substance metaphysics, to process rather than variance theorizing, and to narrative rather than logico‐paradigmatic thinking. The chapter argues for the importance of a process perspective not only to enrich organizational theorizing, but also to contribute to organizational practice through a conception of individual and organizational action that fully recognizes context, flux, and temporality. Finally, the chapter discusses some of the choices and challenges underlying the adoption of a process perspective in empirical research, and situates the book series as a privileged outlet for rigorous scholarship that explicitly advances understanding of how the organizational world we experience is dynamically constituted, maintained, and changed.
Jeffrey Bell and Claire Colebrook (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748636082
- eISBN:
- 9780748671748
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748636082.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Gilles Deleuze's work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of ...
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Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Gilles Deleuze's work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems. The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze's philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze's philosophy to historical method, Deleuze's own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche), and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work.Less
Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Gilles Deleuze's work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems. The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze's philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze's philosophy to historical method, Deleuze's own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche), and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work.
Sanford Schwartz
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195374728
- eISBN:
- 9780199871506
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195374728.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
This chapter focuses on Perelandra, the second volume of the Space Trilogy. Once again Lewis’s target is the modern evolutionary or “developmental” paradigm, but in this novel the emphasis shifts ...
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This chapter focuses on Perelandra, the second volume of the Space Trilogy. Once again Lewis’s target is the modern evolutionary or “developmental” paradigm, but in this novel the emphasis shifts from the materialist “struggle for existence” to Henri Bergson’s more affirmative vitalist philosophy of creative (or emergent) evolution. Just as Martian civilization represents a transfiguration of the Darwinian view of the evolutionary process, the ever developing and open-ended character of the creation on Venus suggests that this new Eden is a sublimated version of creative evolution itself. In this way Lewis searches out the common ground, as well as the defining differences, between Christian tradition and the momentous intellectual changes that inverted the traditional priority of Being over Becoming at the turn of the twentieth century. As in the first novel, Lewis is “raising” or “taking up” the same evolutionary view he is simultaneously putting down.Less
This chapter focuses on Perelandra, the second volume of the Space Trilogy. Once again Lewis’s target is the modern evolutionary or “developmental” paradigm, but in this novel the emphasis shifts from the materialist “struggle for existence” to Henri Bergson’s more affirmative vitalist philosophy of creative (or emergent) evolution. Just as Martian civilization represents a transfiguration of the Darwinian view of the evolutionary process, the ever developing and open-ended character of the creation on Venus suggests that this new Eden is a sublimated version of creative evolution itself. In this way Lewis searches out the common ground, as well as the defining differences, between Christian tradition and the momentous intellectual changes that inverted the traditional priority of Being over Becoming at the turn of the twentieth century. As in the first novel, Lewis is “raising” or “taking up” the same evolutionary view he is simultaneously putting down.
Joanna Bosse
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039010
- eISBN:
- 9780252096983
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039010.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This book explores the transformations undergone by the residents of a Midwestern town when they step out on the dance floor for the very first time. The book uses sensitive fieldwork as well as the ...
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This book explores the transformations undergone by the residents of a Midwestern town when they step out on the dance floor for the very first time. The book uses sensitive fieldwork as well as the author's own immersion in ballroom culture to lead readers into a community that springs up around ballroom dance. It demonstrates how the contemporary performance of ballroom dance among amateurs generates feelings of positive personal transformation, of becoming beautiful. The book also discusses the dance hall as a social space where disparate groups come together to move in synchrony, along with the ways in which race, class, and gender converge in ballroom dancing. The result is a portrait of the real people who connect with others, change themselves, and join a world that foxtrots to its own rules, conventions, and rewards. The author's eye for revealing, humorous detail adds warmth and depth to discussions around critical perspectives on the experiences the dance hall provides, the nature of partnership and connection, and the notion of how dancing allows anyone to become beautiful. The book also considers the relationship between aesthetic values and becoming beautiful.Less
This book explores the transformations undergone by the residents of a Midwestern town when they step out on the dance floor for the very first time. The book uses sensitive fieldwork as well as the author's own immersion in ballroom culture to lead readers into a community that springs up around ballroom dance. It demonstrates how the contemporary performance of ballroom dance among amateurs generates feelings of positive personal transformation, of becoming beautiful. The book also discusses the dance hall as a social space where disparate groups come together to move in synchrony, along with the ways in which race, class, and gender converge in ballroom dancing. The result is a portrait of the real people who connect with others, change themselves, and join a world that foxtrots to its own rules, conventions, and rewards. The author's eye for revealing, humorous detail adds warmth and depth to discussions around critical perspectives on the experiences the dance hall provides, the nature of partnership and connection, and the notion of how dancing allows anyone to become beautiful. The book also considers the relationship between aesthetic values and becoming beautiful.
Laura Guillaume and Joe Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638642
- eISBN:
- 9780748652679
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638642.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book is a collection of chapters on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body. Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific, and philosophical lines of enquiry, ...
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This book is a collection of chapters on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body. Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific, and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement, and literature. The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins, and becoming in relation to power, creativity, and affect. The book brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body.Less
This book is a collection of chapters on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body. Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific, and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement, and literature. The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins, and becoming in relation to power, creativity, and affect. The book brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body.
Nick Mahony, Janet Newman, and Clive Barnett (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424167
- eISBN:
- 9781447303275
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424167.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Organizations
This book rethinks the public, public communication, and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It develops theoretical perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, focusing ...
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This book rethinks the public, public communication, and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It develops theoretical perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, focusing on four overlapping processes: claiming publics; personalising publics; mediating publics; and becoming public. Using case studies, the book offers a set of methodological resources on which other researchers can draw, and foregrounds the need to interrogate the boundaries between theory, research, and politics.Less
This book rethinks the public, public communication, and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It develops theoretical perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, focusing on four overlapping processes: claiming publics; personalising publics; mediating publics; and becoming public. Using case studies, the book offers a set of methodological resources on which other researchers can draw, and foregrounds the need to interrogate the boundaries between theory, research, and politics.
Philip Allott
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199244935
- eISBN:
- 9780191697418
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199244935.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter focuses on society as the social becoming of humanity. As a single species, humanity shares the species-characteristics, species-history, and the species-potentiality of human species. ...
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This chapter focuses on society as the social becoming of humanity. As a single species, humanity shares the species-characteristics, species-history, and the species-potentiality of human species. Each human being is unique. Each is of unique value to and purpose for itself. Between humanity and the human beings are uncountable intermediate societies. Each is its own becoming — self-fulfilling, becoming what it might be, becoming what it is.Less
This chapter focuses on society as the social becoming of humanity. As a single species, humanity shares the species-characteristics, species-history, and the species-potentiality of human species. Each human being is unique. Each is of unique value to and purpose for itself. Between humanity and the human beings are uncountable intermediate societies. Each is its own becoming — self-fulfilling, becoming what it might be, becoming what it is.
Huatong Sun
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744763
- eISBN:
- 9780199932993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744763.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Models and Architectures
This chapter traces the messaging use of American college student Emma for three years. It looks at meaning construction and identity work in cross-cultural design in a postmodern era and discusses ...
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This chapter traces the messaging use of American college student Emma for three years. It looks at meaning construction and identity work in cross-cultural design in a postmodern era and discusses how multiple identities were constructed in numerous layers of cultural contexts through a process of becoming, where the user was constantly looking for a technology to fit her lifestyle. It urges the design community to consider the role of subjectivity in design.Less
This chapter traces the messaging use of American college student Emma for three years. It looks at meaning construction and identity work in cross-cultural design in a postmodern era and discusses how multiple identities were constructed in numerous layers of cultural contexts through a process of becoming, where the user was constantly looking for a technology to fit her lifestyle. It urges the design community to consider the role of subjectivity in design.
Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199655373
- eISBN:
- 9780191742118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199655373.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, Poetry
The last chapter of this book follows Marvell out from lyric privacy into the various phases of his eventful public career. It tracks his service to the Lord Protector, to his parliamentary ...
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The last chapter of this book follows Marvell out from lyric privacy into the various phases of his eventful public career. It tracks his service to the Lord Protector, to his parliamentary constituency, to his various patrons, and it relates the puzzling inconsistency of his political stances to his fluctuating affective alignments. The chapter provides political meaning for his famous preoccupation with the orphan and endangered child.Less
The last chapter of this book follows Marvell out from lyric privacy into the various phases of his eventful public career. It tracks his service to the Lord Protector, to his parliamentary constituency, to his various patrons, and it relates the puzzling inconsistency of his political stances to his fluctuating affective alignments. The chapter provides political meaning for his famous preoccupation with the orphan and endangered child.
J. R. Lucas
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263464
- eISBN:
- 9780191734748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263464.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter argues for the position of temporal becoming across a wide variety of fields. The chapter's central sections address successively the metaphysics, physics and logic of time. It rebuts ...
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This chapter argues for the position of temporal becoming across a wide variety of fields. The chapter's central sections address successively the metaphysics, physics and logic of time. It rebuts McTaggart's argument that temporal becoming involves a contradiction. It admits that special relativity's frame — dependence of simultaneity is inimical to temporal becoming. However it also argues that temporal becoming is rehabilitated both by general relativity's allowance of cosmic time functions and, more fundamentally, by the collapse of the wave-packet in quantum theory. Finally, the discussion considers the logic of time, especially tense logic, and applies this to recent cosmological speculation about the Big Bang and more generally to the idea of the beginning of time.Less
This chapter argues for the position of temporal becoming across a wide variety of fields. The chapter's central sections address successively the metaphysics, physics and logic of time. It rebuts McTaggart's argument that temporal becoming involves a contradiction. It admits that special relativity's frame — dependence of simultaneity is inimical to temporal becoming. However it also argues that temporal becoming is rehabilitated both by general relativity's allowance of cosmic time functions and, more fundamentally, by the collapse of the wave-packet in quantum theory. Finally, the discussion considers the logic of time, especially tense logic, and applies this to recent cosmological speculation about the Big Bang and more generally to the idea of the beginning of time.
Michael Tooley
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263464
- eISBN:
- 9780191734748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263464.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter maintains that the two broad positions in the temporal becoming debate are too broad; that is, each is a conjunction of metaphysical theses, and these are in general logically ...
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This chapter maintains that the two broad positions in the temporal becoming debate are too broad; that is, each is a conjunction of metaphysical theses, and these are in general logically independent of each other. Furthermore, it notes that the truth ‘lies in the middle’. It argues for a temporal becoming in the sense that what facts are actual varies with time. And arguments relating to counterfactuals and to causation suggest that facts never cease to exist, so that actuality ‘grows’ by accretion of facts. On the other hand, the opponents of temporal becoming are right in some of their claims, such as that tensed properties are relational, not intrinsic, and that tensed concepts are not basic in conceptual analysis. The discussion favours analysing temporal priority as a causal relation between spacetime points.Less
This chapter maintains that the two broad positions in the temporal becoming debate are too broad; that is, each is a conjunction of metaphysical theses, and these are in general logically independent of each other. Furthermore, it notes that the truth ‘lies in the middle’. It argues for a temporal becoming in the sense that what facts are actual varies with time. And arguments relating to counterfactuals and to causation suggest that facts never cease to exist, so that actuality ‘grows’ by accretion of facts. On the other hand, the opponents of temporal becoming are right in some of their claims, such as that tensed properties are relational, not intrinsic, and that tensed concepts are not basic in conceptual analysis. The discussion favours analysing temporal priority as a causal relation between spacetime points.
Akiba J. Lerner
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823267910
- eISBN:
- 9780823272433
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823267910.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Chapter 3 explores the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theordor Adorno, Jürgen Moltmann, Walter Capps, Paul Ricoeur, Eric Fromm, and Emil Fackenheim, all of whom contributed to the project of ...
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Chapter 3 explores the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theordor Adorno, Jürgen Moltmann, Walter Capps, Paul Ricoeur, Eric Fromm, and Emil Fackenheim, all of whom contributed to the project of reviving redemptive hope narratives as an answer to the failure of both religious and philosophical traditions to adequately address the modern breakdown of humanistic values and the catastrophes of mass extermination. The thinkers covered in this chapter all shared the concern that redemptive narratives remain indispensible for motivating social solidarity but are also no longer believable in the same way in a post-Holocaust era. The Jewish and Christian thinkers in this chapter provide an interesting historical antecedent and contrast to Rorty’s late-twentieth-century proposal for a postmetaphysical form of social hope.Less
Chapter 3 explores the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theordor Adorno, Jürgen Moltmann, Walter Capps, Paul Ricoeur, Eric Fromm, and Emil Fackenheim, all of whom contributed to the project of reviving redemptive hope narratives as an answer to the failure of both religious and philosophical traditions to adequately address the modern breakdown of humanistic values and the catastrophes of mass extermination. The thinkers covered in this chapter all shared the concern that redemptive narratives remain indispensible for motivating social solidarity but are also no longer believable in the same way in a post-Holocaust era. The Jewish and Christian thinkers in this chapter provide an interesting historical antecedent and contrast to Rorty’s late-twentieth-century proposal for a postmetaphysical form of social hope.
Daniel W. Graham
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198243151
- eISBN:
- 9780191680649
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198243151.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter presents theories that were peripheral to S1 and states that they were transformed under the pressure of new principles to become key components of a new system. Since the important ...
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This chapter presents theories that were peripheral to S1 and states that they were transformed under the pressure of new principles to become key components of a new system. Since the important stages in the development of Aristotle's two theories correlates with the changeover to S2, this provides confirmation for a developmental hypothesis. Recognizing the hylomorphic turn in Aristotle's early physical speculation explains variations in Aristotelian theories in a systematic way. Aristotle's progress from S1 to S2 allowed him to achieve a greater integration of his theories while expanding the range and explanatory power of his philosophy. Discussions in this chapter include: the development of the concept of actuality such as the need for a new concept, from energy levels to the curve of becoming, and degrees of reality; and the potentiality in Metaphysics ix.Less
This chapter presents theories that were peripheral to S1 and states that they were transformed under the pressure of new principles to become key components of a new system. Since the important stages in the development of Aristotle's two theories correlates with the changeover to S2, this provides confirmation for a developmental hypothesis. Recognizing the hylomorphic turn in Aristotle's early physical speculation explains variations in Aristotelian theories in a systematic way. Aristotle's progress from S1 to S2 allowed him to achieve a greater integration of his theories while expanding the range and explanatory power of his philosophy. Discussions in this chapter include: the development of the concept of actuality such as the need for a new concept, from energy levels to the curve of becoming, and degrees of reality; and the potentiality in Metaphysics ix.
John Richardson
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195098464
- eISBN:
- 9780199833597
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195098463.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
My overall project is to show that Nietzsche's ideas do cohere into a philosophical system comparable to his predecessors’ – despite his own strong attacks on the system, and on these predecessors. ...
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My overall project is to show that Nietzsche's ideas do cohere into a philosophical system comparable to his predecessors’ – despite his own strong attacks on the system, and on these predecessors. This system centers around his view of the world as will to power. I work to make this notion conceptually precise, and to show how it extends into his wealth of other thoughts, including his analysis of the basic types of persons and societies, his insistence that the world is “not being but becoming,” his values of individuality and self‐creating, his attacks on morality, and his critique and affirmation of truth. The claim that Nietzsche promotes such a systematic view seems inconsistent with his well‐known “perspectivism”; I argue that the latter issues from his conception of these wills to power as perspectives, and that this source shows us both the forces and limits of that doctrine.Less
My overall project is to show that Nietzsche's ideas do cohere into a philosophical system comparable to his predecessors’ – despite his own strong attacks on the system, and on these predecessors. This system centers around his view of the world as will to power. I work to make this notion conceptually precise, and to show how it extends into his wealth of other thoughts, including his analysis of the basic types of persons and societies, his insistence that the world is “not being but becoming,” his values of individuality and self‐creating, his attacks on morality, and his critique and affirmation of truth. The claim that Nietzsche promotes such a systematic view seems inconsistent with his well‐known “perspectivism”; I argue that the latter issues from his conception of these wills to power as perspectives, and that this source shows us both the forces and limits of that doctrine.
Colin Gardner and Patricia MacCormack (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474422734
- eISBN:
- 9781474434959
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422734.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Human-animal studies and the age of the anthropocene are prevalent across many disciplines at this time and this book is among the first to explore the usefulness of Deleuze for extensions and ...
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Human-animal studies and the age of the anthropocene are prevalent across many disciplines at this time and this book is among the first to explore the usefulness of Deleuze for extensions and debates in these fields which only Deleuzian understandings of human subjectivity can provide. While Deleuzian studies has always been critical of the structure and status of human subjectivity, utilizing Deleuze in discussions of the contentious and unstable concept of the animal underlines the utility of his work for altering both theories and practices from art to philosophy to everyday activism. This book collects essays by established scholars in the field of Deleuze studies, and new scholars, to show not only the diversity of Deleuze’s applicability to human-animal studies but to call into question what we mean by the seemingly simple idea of ‘the animal’. Through 16 chapters Deleuze’s entire oeuvre is used in analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal as a discrete, easily understood concept and thereby simultaneously places the human as animal and critiques the centrality of the human. The book aims to create new questions in reference to what the age of the anthropocene means by ‘animal’ as much as to analyse and explore examples of the unclear boundaries between human and animal.Less
Human-animal studies and the age of the anthropocene are prevalent across many disciplines at this time and this book is among the first to explore the usefulness of Deleuze for extensions and debates in these fields which only Deleuzian understandings of human subjectivity can provide. While Deleuzian studies has always been critical of the structure and status of human subjectivity, utilizing Deleuze in discussions of the contentious and unstable concept of the animal underlines the utility of his work for altering both theories and practices from art to philosophy to everyday activism. This book collects essays by established scholars in the field of Deleuze studies, and new scholars, to show not only the diversity of Deleuze’s applicability to human-animal studies but to call into question what we mean by the seemingly simple idea of ‘the animal’. Through 16 chapters Deleuze’s entire oeuvre is used in analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal as a discrete, easily understood concept and thereby simultaneously places the human as animal and critiques the centrality of the human. The book aims to create new questions in reference to what the age of the anthropocene means by ‘animal’ as much as to analyse and explore examples of the unclear boundaries between human and animal.
Stephen Mulhall
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199661787
- eISBN:
- 9780191748301
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661787.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind
This book presents a series of multiply interrelated chapters which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). It explores a variety of articulations (in ...
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This book presents a series of multiply interrelated chapters which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). It explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea that selfhood is best conceived as a matter of non-self-identity — for example, as becoming or self-overcoming, or as being what one is not and not being what one is, or as being doubled or divided. Philosophically, a sustained reading of the work of Nietzsche and Sartre is central to this project, although Wittgenstein is also fundamental to its concerns; the book therefore draws extensively on texts usually associated with ‘Continental’ philosophical traditions, primarily in order to test the feasibility of a non-elitist form of moral perfectionism. Within the arts, several chapters examine various films whose themes intersect with those of the philosophers under study (including Hollywood melodramas, recent spy movies such as the Bourne trilogy and the latest incarnation of James Bond, and David Fincher's Benjamin Button); Wagner's Ring cycle is a recurrent concern; and the novels of Kingsley Amis, J. M. Coetzee, and David Foster Wallace are also prominent.Less
This book presents a series of multiply interrelated chapters which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). It explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea that selfhood is best conceived as a matter of non-self-identity — for example, as becoming or self-overcoming, or as being what one is not and not being what one is, or as being doubled or divided. Philosophically, a sustained reading of the work of Nietzsche and Sartre is central to this project, although Wittgenstein is also fundamental to its concerns; the book therefore draws extensively on texts usually associated with ‘Continental’ philosophical traditions, primarily in order to test the feasibility of a non-elitist form of moral perfectionism. Within the arts, several chapters examine various films whose themes intersect with those of the philosophers under study (including Hollywood melodramas, recent spy movies such as the Bourne trilogy and the latest incarnation of James Bond, and David Fincher's Benjamin Button); Wagner's Ring cycle is a recurrent concern; and the novels of Kingsley Amis, J. M. Coetzee, and David Foster Wallace are also prominent.
Charles Conti
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198263388
- eISBN:
- 9780191682513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263388.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter considers the question of why‘becoming’-concepts are metaphysically preferable to a ‘theology of being’. It shows how Farrer revitalized ‘being’-talk on ordinary language premises while ...
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This chapter considers the question of why‘becoming’-concepts are metaphysically preferable to a ‘theology of being’. It shows how Farrer revitalized ‘being’-talk on ordinary language premises while looking up further research into Farrer's ‘linguistic theology’. ‘Becoming’-categories turn away from abstract ‘mentalism’ which etherealizes its conception of God. Instead, the chapter suggests an active or operational identity for God. Farrer also emphasized the logic of grace: ‘two agents sharing a single act’. It concludes that Farrer's metaphysical personalism was well suited to faith and speculation.Less
This chapter considers the question of why‘becoming’-concepts are metaphysically preferable to a ‘theology of being’. It shows how Farrer revitalized ‘being’-talk on ordinary language premises while looking up further research into Farrer's ‘linguistic theology’. ‘Becoming’-categories turn away from abstract ‘mentalism’ which etherealizes its conception of God. Instead, the chapter suggests an active or operational identity for God. Farrer also emphasized the logic of grace: ‘two agents sharing a single act’. It concludes that Farrer's metaphysical personalism was well suited to faith and speculation.
Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195160147
- eISBN:
- 9780199835065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195160142.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Is Nietzsche an existentialist? He is often included in existentialism courses and collections. But Nietzsche’s views on freedom are by no means so clear (as, say, those of Kierkegaard and Sartre), ...
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Is Nietzsche an existentialist? He is often included in existentialism courses and collections. But Nietzsche’s views on freedom are by no means so clear (as, say, those of Kierkegaard and Sartre), and his celebration of fatalism (amor fati) seems to go against the existentialist celebration of freedom. In this chapter, I examine Nietzsche’s views on freedom and fatalism, and I argue that Nietzsche’s classic slogan, “Become Who You Are,” suggests a strong stance on responsibility as well as an intelligible acceptance of fatalism, largely based on the ancient philosopher Heraclitus.Less
Is Nietzsche an existentialist? He is often included in existentialism courses and collections. But Nietzsche’s views on freedom are by no means so clear (as, say, those of Kierkegaard and Sartre), and his celebration of fatalism (amor fati) seems to go against the existentialist celebration of freedom. In this chapter, I examine Nietzsche’s views on freedom and fatalism, and I argue that Nietzsche’s classic slogan, “Become Who You Are,” suggests a strong stance on responsibility as well as an intelligible acceptance of fatalism, largely based on the ancient philosopher Heraclitus.
