Fabrizio Arosio, Flavia Adani, and Maria Teresa Guasti
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199553266
- eISBN:
- 9780191720833
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553266.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Theoretical Linguistics
This chapter addresses the question of how children exploit different grammatical devices in comprehending relative clauses. It shows that comprehension of relative clauses follows different ...
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This chapter addresses the question of how children exploit different grammatical devices in comprehending relative clauses. It shows that comprehension of relative clauses follows different developmental patterns defined by the kind of device that cue a subject or an object relative clause interpretation.Less
This chapter addresses the question of how children exploit different grammatical devices in comprehending relative clauses. It shows that comprehension of relative clauses follows different developmental patterns defined by the kind of device that cue a subject or an object relative clause interpretation.
Dan Xu
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199297566
- eISBN:
- 9780191711299
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297566.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a ‘mixed’ language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this ...
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This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a ‘mixed’ language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. This book demonstrates that Old Chinese was not the analytic language it has usually been assumed to be, and that it employed morphological and lexical devices as well as syntactic means. The book describes the typological changes that have taken place since the Han period and shows how Chinese evolved into a more analytic language, supporting this exposition with abundant examples. The book draws where possible on archaeological findings in order to distinguish between versions of texts transmitted and sometimes modified through the hands of generations of copyists. The book focuses on syntactic issues, including word order, verbs, causative structures, resultative compounds, and negation, but also pays close attention to what the book demonstrates are closely related changes in phonology and the writing system.Less
This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a ‘mixed’ language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. This book demonstrates that Old Chinese was not the analytic language it has usually been assumed to be, and that it employed morphological and lexical devices as well as syntactic means. The book describes the typological changes that have taken place since the Han period and shows how Chinese evolved into a more analytic language, supporting this exposition with abundant examples. The book draws where possible on archaeological findings in order to distinguish between versions of texts transmitted and sometimes modified through the hands of generations of copyists. The book focuses on syntactic issues, including word order, verbs, causative structures, resultative compounds, and negation, but also pays close attention to what the book demonstrates are closely related changes in phonology and the writing system.
Itziar Laka
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199590339
- eISBN:
- 9780191745041
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590339.003.0009
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
This chapter discusses how certain aspects of linguistic form specific to a language belonging to an understudied type of languages (ergative languages) yield processing results and acquisition ...
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This chapter discusses how certain aspects of linguistic form specific to a language belonging to an understudied type of languages (ergative languages) yield processing results and acquisition patterns that have hitherto rarely been reported from studies of a well-studied type of languages (nominative languages). Specifically, it discusses recent results from studies on relative-clause processing in Basque that are incompatible with the widely held assumption that subject-object language processing asymmetries are universal, and that they tap into deep aspects of linguistic structure involving the core grammatical functions ‘subject-of’ and ‘object-of’. It is argued that the processing results obtained in Basque do not entail that the structural location of subjects and objects in ergative and nominative languages is different; rather they entail that morphological differences and input-initial choices have nontrivial consequences for processing.Less
This chapter discusses how certain aspects of linguistic form specific to a language belonging to an understudied type of languages (ergative languages) yield processing results and acquisition patterns that have hitherto rarely been reported from studies of a well-studied type of languages (nominative languages). Specifically, it discusses recent results from studies on relative-clause processing in Basque that are incompatible with the widely held assumption that subject-object language processing asymmetries are universal, and that they tap into deep aspects of linguistic structure involving the core grammatical functions ‘subject-of’ and ‘object-of’. It is argued that the processing results obtained in Basque do not entail that the structural location of subjects and objects in ergative and nominative languages is different; rather they entail that morphological differences and input-initial choices have nontrivial consequences for processing.
Stephen Wechsler
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199279883
- eISBN:
- 9780191757563
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279883.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
This chapter surveys the argument-taking properties of verbs and other predicators. It begins with argument selection (the question of which participants are expressed as subject, object, and other ...
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This chapter surveys the argument-taking properties of verbs and other predicators. It begins with argument selection (the question of which participants are expressed as subject, object, and other grammatical functions), including description and analysis of subject–object asymmetry and various types of object omission and demotion (object pro-drop, antipassive, and conative alternations). Next we survey causative, anti-causative, inchoative, and result state alternations, and other direct versus oblique alternations. A section on unaccusativity looks at properties of unaccusatives including auxiliary selection in European languages. The relation between unaccusativity and split ergativity is discussed. The typology of motion and manner lexicalization is reviewed, with discussion of the tendency toward manner–result complementarity. This is followed by a look at category conversions between verb and noun.Less
This chapter surveys the argument-taking properties of verbs and other predicators. It begins with argument selection (the question of which participants are expressed as subject, object, and other grammatical functions), including description and analysis of subject–object asymmetry and various types of object omission and demotion (object pro-drop, antipassive, and conative alternations). Next we survey causative, anti-causative, inchoative, and result state alternations, and other direct versus oblique alternations. A section on unaccusativity looks at properties of unaccusatives including auxiliary selection in European languages. The relation between unaccusativity and split ergativity is discussed. The typology of motion and manner lexicalization is reviewed, with discussion of the tendency toward manner–result complementarity. This is followed by a look at category conversions between verb and noun.
Anne Mette Nyvad, Ken Ramshøj Christensen, and Sten Vikner
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199945269
- eISBN:
- 9780199369805
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945269.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
Data from a study on the comprehension of short and long extractions by four Danish agrammatic patients reveal an interesting asymmetry between subject and object extraction that cannot be explained ...
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Data from a study on the comprehension of short and long extractions by four Danish agrammatic patients reveal an interesting asymmetry between subject and object extraction that cannot be explained with canonicity or with trace deletion. It is argued that three crucial linguistic distinctions are required: namely, A-movement (impaired) vs. A-bar-movement (not impaired); main clause CP vs. embedded clause CP (impaired); and subject vs. object. In simple clauses, object extraction is most impaired, whereas in embedded clauses the pattern is reversed. Together these distinctions provide an account of the inverse asymmetries resembling the *that-trace pattern.Less
Data from a study on the comprehension of short and long extractions by four Danish agrammatic patients reveal an interesting asymmetry between subject and object extraction that cannot be explained with canonicity or with trace deletion. It is argued that three crucial linguistic distinctions are required: namely, A-movement (impaired) vs. A-bar-movement (not impaired); main clause CP vs. embedded clause CP (impaired); and subject vs. object. In simple clauses, object extraction is most impaired, whereas in embedded clauses the pattern is reversed. Together these distinctions provide an account of the inverse asymmetries resembling the *that-trace pattern.
Kristina Musholt
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029209
- eISBN:
- 9780262329767
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029209.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter presents the traditional model of self-consciousness, according to which self-consciousness is a form of object cognition, and explains why this model is misguided. Based on this, it ...
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This chapter presents the traditional model of self-consciousness, according to which self-consciousness is a form of object cognition, and explains why this model is misguided. Based on this, it introduces the notion of prereflective self-consciousness and argues that it needs to be further analyzed. It then examines linguistic approaches to self-consciousness and shows that immunity to error through misidentification is an essential feature of paradigmatic forms of self-consciousness. Finally, it motivates the attempt to provide a theory of self-consciousness that appeals to the notion of nonconceptual content by demonstrating how linguistic approaches remain incomplete.Less
This chapter presents the traditional model of self-consciousness, according to which self-consciousness is a form of object cognition, and explains why this model is misguided. Based on this, it introduces the notion of prereflective self-consciousness and argues that it needs to be further analyzed. It then examines linguistic approaches to self-consciousness and shows that immunity to error through misidentification is an essential feature of paradigmatic forms of self-consciousness. Finally, it motivates the attempt to provide a theory of self-consciousness that appeals to the notion of nonconceptual content by demonstrating how linguistic approaches remain incomplete.
Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199950980
- eISBN:
- 9780199345991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199950980.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, World Literature
Briefly considers the legacy of the eighteenth-century “taste for China” in modern theories of taste, particularly Bourdieu’s theory of bourgeois taste. Late eighteenth-century literature’s ...
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Briefly considers the legacy of the eighteenth-century “taste for China” in modern theories of taste, particularly Bourdieu’s theory of bourgeois taste. Late eighteenth-century literature’s reorganization of English selfhood according to epistemological distinctions between, on the one hand, subject and object, and, on the other, England and orient, generates the interiority of modern subjectivity. The estrangement the modern self feels from earlier traditions of selfhood generates the uncanny effects of the modern desire for things.Less
Briefly considers the legacy of the eighteenth-century “taste for China” in modern theories of taste, particularly Bourdieu’s theory of bourgeois taste. Late eighteenth-century literature’s reorganization of English selfhood according to epistemological distinctions between, on the one hand, subject and object, and, on the other, England and orient, generates the interiority of modern subjectivity. The estrangement the modern self feels from earlier traditions of selfhood generates the uncanny effects of the modern desire for things.
Claudia Leeb
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190639891
- eISBN:
- 9780190639921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190639891.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory, Democratization
“The When of Sociopolitical Transformation: The Moment of the Limit” introduces the idea of the moment of the limit to engage with the first tension inherent in the idea of the political subject—the ...
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“The When of Sociopolitical Transformation: The Moment of the Limit” introduces the idea of the moment of the limit to engage with the first tension inherent in the idea of the political subject—the tension between the idea of a free and autonomous subject that is not impacted by power, and the idea of a subject as completely subjected to power. It acknowledges the ways in which subjects are subjected to power in capitalism, but avoids postulating the idea of a subjected subject through theorizing the moment of the limit, which it accomplishes through a reading of the real (Lacan) and the non-identical (Adorno). The moment of the limit is the moment when power fails to completely subject or subordinate individuals, and at this moment the political subject with the capacity to not only resist but to transform the status quo can emerge.Less
“The When of Sociopolitical Transformation: The Moment of the Limit” introduces the idea of the moment of the limit to engage with the first tension inherent in the idea of the political subject—the tension between the idea of a free and autonomous subject that is not impacted by power, and the idea of a subject as completely subjected to power. It acknowledges the ways in which subjects are subjected to power in capitalism, but avoids postulating the idea of a subjected subject through theorizing the moment of the limit, which it accomplishes through a reading of the real (Lacan) and the non-identical (Adorno). The moment of the limit is the moment when power fails to completely subject or subordinate individuals, and at this moment the political subject with the capacity to not only resist but to transform the status quo can emerge.
Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, and Tal Siloni
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199602513
- eISBN:
- 9780191739200
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602513.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Semantics and Pragmatics
The goal of this introduction is threefold. Firstly, it overviews the core issues and challenges at the lexicon-syntax interface, thus setting the stage for the appearance of the Theta system of ...
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The goal of this introduction is threefold. Firstly, it overviews the core issues and challenges at the lexicon-syntax interface, thus setting the stage for the appearance of the Theta system of Reinhart (1991, 1996, 2000, 2002 et seq.) Secondly, in broad strokes, it demonstrates how the system deals (away) with the thematic roles as primitives, addresses the issue of verbal alternations and the gaps that exist in the paradigm, and, as illustrated by some of the most notorious instances of mapping puzzles, tackles the linking of the semantic categories to syntax. Last but not least, it provides summaries of the contributions to this volume. The contributions themselves examine the underpinnings, explore the advantages, and suggest further developments and improvements of the Theta system.Less
The goal of this introduction is threefold. Firstly, it overviews the core issues and challenges at the lexicon-syntax interface, thus setting the stage for the appearance of the Theta system of Reinhart (1991, 1996, 2000, 2002 et seq.) Secondly, in broad strokes, it demonstrates how the system deals (away) with the thematic roles as primitives, addresses the issue of verbal alternations and the gaps that exist in the paradigm, and, as illustrated by some of the most notorious instances of mapping puzzles, tackles the linking of the semantic categories to syntax. Last but not least, it provides summaries of the contributions to this volume. The contributions themselves examine the underpinnings, explore the advantages, and suggest further developments and improvements of the Theta system.
Claudia Leeb
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190639891
- eISBN:
- 9780190639921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190639891.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory, Democratization
“Who Changes the World: The Political Subject-in-Outline” introduces the idea of the political subject-in-outline to creatively engage with the tension between the exclusionary character of the ...
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“Who Changes the World: The Political Subject-in-Outline” introduces the idea of the political subject-in-outline to creatively engage with the tension between the exclusionary character of the political subject and its necessity for agency. It explains why giving up on the subject altogether or theorizing it as a constantly shifting entity is implicated in the project of capitalism, and acknowledges the necessity of defining a political subject to critique and transform capitalism. Yet its outline reminds people that any definition of the political subject must remain permanently open for contestation to avoid its exclusionary character. This chapter also explains that the subject-in-outline aims to establish a mediated relation between the universal and particular, as well as mind and body. Furthermore, it shows that the idea of a political subject-in-outline can help people avoid alienation, instrumental relations, and the coldness of love in capitalism.Less
“Who Changes the World: The Political Subject-in-Outline” introduces the idea of the political subject-in-outline to creatively engage with the tension between the exclusionary character of the political subject and its necessity for agency. It explains why giving up on the subject altogether or theorizing it as a constantly shifting entity is implicated in the project of capitalism, and acknowledges the necessity of defining a political subject to critique and transform capitalism. Yet its outline reminds people that any definition of the political subject must remain permanently open for contestation to avoid its exclusionary character. This chapter also explains that the subject-in-outline aims to establish a mediated relation between the universal and particular, as well as mind and body. Furthermore, it shows that the idea of a political subject-in-outline can help people avoid alienation, instrumental relations, and the coldness of love in capitalism.
Fleur Johns
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198798200
- eISBN:
- 9780191858642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198798200.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
So often reactive and responsive in its own self-understanding, the discipline of international law appears in this book as agentive, creative, and pivotal. Scholars and practitioners of ...
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So often reactive and responsive in its own self-understanding, the discipline of international law appears in this book as agentive, creative, and pivotal. Scholars and practitioners of international law turn out, in its pages, to be makers and purveyors of objects that the discipline can, in varying ways and degrees, call its own. The world and its objects have been, and might yet otherwise be, of international law’s making. This chapter reflects on what kind of making this might entail and what it might mean, in this context, to write of an object juridically. It tackles these questions by exploring six modes of making and doing ongoing in the book, including modes of grappling with object loss (drawing from Freud), and how these variably elucidate the role of objects, and subject–object relations, in sustaining international law as a discipline.Less
So often reactive and responsive in its own self-understanding, the discipline of international law appears in this book as agentive, creative, and pivotal. Scholars and practitioners of international law turn out, in its pages, to be makers and purveyors of objects that the discipline can, in varying ways and degrees, call its own. The world and its objects have been, and might yet otherwise be, of international law’s making. This chapter reflects on what kind of making this might entail and what it might mean, in this context, to write of an object juridically. It tackles these questions by exploring six modes of making and doing ongoing in the book, including modes of grappling with object loss (drawing from Freud), and how these variably elucidate the role of objects, and subject–object relations, in sustaining international law as a discipline.
John E. Hancock
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034553
- eISBN:
- 9780813039190
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034553.003.0010
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
The chapter gives rise to many points such as the fact that enlightenment-inspired science has given much promotion to subject–object dualism. This has also led to the promotion of the isolated ...
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The chapter gives rise to many points such as the fact that enlightenment-inspired science has given much promotion to subject–object dualism. This has also led to the promotion of the isolated scientist's views of evaluating the world of objects free from preexisting understandings. To understand the Hopewell earthworks we need to treat them as communicative media of Hopewell lifeworld. The chapter stresses the role of architecture and art as a communicative sign for articulating the totality of the lifeworld. Architectural aspects are considered to be the most outstanding modes of extrinsic communicative media.Less
The chapter gives rise to many points such as the fact that enlightenment-inspired science has given much promotion to subject–object dualism. This has also led to the promotion of the isolated scientist's views of evaluating the world of objects free from preexisting understandings. To understand the Hopewell earthworks we need to treat them as communicative media of Hopewell lifeworld. The chapter stresses the role of architecture and art as a communicative sign for articulating the totality of the lifeworld. Architectural aspects are considered to be the most outstanding modes of extrinsic communicative media.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0018
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
The essay announces a crisis in the way we conceptualize knowledge, and so in the ways we go about expanding it. The gesture of “research” has long been modeled as a “digging” for causes, for deep ...
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The essay announces a crisis in the way we conceptualize knowledge, and so in the ways we go about expanding it. The gesture of “research” has long been modeled as a “digging” for causes, for deep understanding; it is now giving way to a broad reaching for possibilities.Less
The essay announces a crisis in the way we conceptualize knowledge, and so in the ways we go about expanding it. The gesture of “research” has long been modeled as a “digging” for causes, for deep understanding; it is now giving way to a broad reaching for possibilities.
Paul S. Fiddes
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199644100
- eISBN:
- 9780191760211
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644100.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion
Taking up the perception of ancient Hebrew wisdom about the complexity of the world in its inexhaustible and ummeasurable extent, this chapter begins with late-modern scientific awareness of the ...
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Taking up the perception of ancient Hebrew wisdom about the complexity of the world in its inexhaustible and ummeasurable extent, this chapter begins with late-modern scientific awareness of the limits of human knowledge. Complexity in this perspective arises from initial conditions of chaos, uncertainty, interaction, and a range of possibilities. As in ancient wisdom, complexity is a situation in which talk of God comes alive, as long as God is envisaged as complex rather than simple being, or in other words as Trinity. The same conclusion may be reached from considering the world as a complex network of signs. God's creative activity in the world can then be understood as influencing a world which participates in a perichoretic event of three interweaving relationships, rather than as the work of three transcendent subjects, thus evoking a divine wisdom which overcomes the gap between subject and object, self and world.Less
Taking up the perception of ancient Hebrew wisdom about the complexity of the world in its inexhaustible and ummeasurable extent, this chapter begins with late-modern scientific awareness of the limits of human knowledge. Complexity in this perspective arises from initial conditions of chaos, uncertainty, interaction, and a range of possibilities. As in ancient wisdom, complexity is a situation in which talk of God comes alive, as long as God is envisaged as complex rather than simple being, or in other words as Trinity. The same conclusion may be reached from considering the world as a complex network of signs. God's creative activity in the world can then be understood as influencing a world which participates in a perichoretic event of three interweaving relationships, rather than as the work of three transcendent subjects, thus evoking a divine wisdom which overcomes the gap between subject and object, self and world.
John Kinsella
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719075582
- eISBN:
- 9781781701034
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719075582.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
In this chapter, the author talks about spatial lyricism and linguistic disobedience. The lyric is the basis of all his poetry, but its signature is blurred and reconstituted. The difficulty for the ...
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In this chapter, the author talks about spatial lyricism and linguistic disobedience. The lyric is the basis of all his poetry, but its signature is blurred and reconstituted. The difficulty for the lyric in conveying ‘emotional’ content is that it cannot be effective if the material is not carefully controlled. The looser this control, the less we can accept the genuineness of the emotions. Regardless of time and place, at the core of the poem is the object–subject relation. The author's politics and ethics and poetry are inseparable: his vegan anarchist pacifist beliefs inform everything he writes, and he uses language to unsettle a world in which centralisation has denied rights. Is violent language violence? Is this where context comes into its own? The lyric intent softens the aggression. Rhythm is not unique to poetry – and a piece of writing with rhythm is not necessarily poetry or even poetic – but the consistent and regulated control and deployment of rhythm is accepted as one of the foundation blocks of the ‘poem’.Less
In this chapter, the author talks about spatial lyricism and linguistic disobedience. The lyric is the basis of all his poetry, but its signature is blurred and reconstituted. The difficulty for the lyric in conveying ‘emotional’ content is that it cannot be effective if the material is not carefully controlled. The looser this control, the less we can accept the genuineness of the emotions. Regardless of time and place, at the core of the poem is the object–subject relation. The author's politics and ethics and poetry are inseparable: his vegan anarchist pacifist beliefs inform everything he writes, and he uses language to unsettle a world in which centralisation has denied rights. Is violent language violence? Is this where context comes into its own? The lyric intent softens the aggression. Rhythm is not unique to poetry – and a piece of writing with rhythm is not necessarily poetry or even poetic – but the consistent and regulated control and deployment of rhythm is accepted as one of the foundation blocks of the ‘poem’.
Emma Simone
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474421676
- eISBN:
- 9781474434638
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421676.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents ...
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Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.Less
Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.
Becky Peterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816675784
- eISBN:
- 9781452946337
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816675784.003.0008
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
American poet Laura Riding collapses the entire poetic subject-object structure by depicting herself as both subject and object, poet and muse. Her position on subject-object relations extends from a ...
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American poet Laura Riding collapses the entire poetic subject-object structure by depicting herself as both subject and object, poet and muse. Her position on subject-object relations extends from a revision of Petrarchan poetics toward a radical view of feminism and a highly individualized expression of her position as a woman artist. Throughout her career, Riding made significant use of literal and figurative “precious objects.” This chapter focuses on two types of precious objects: the elusive female muse (the inspiring, objectified figure in Western poetic tradition), and the presence of jewelry in Riding’s art and life, as represented in her poetry and in a gold tiara she owned and wore.Less
American poet Laura Riding collapses the entire poetic subject-object structure by depicting herself as both subject and object, poet and muse. Her position on subject-object relations extends from a revision of Petrarchan poetics toward a radical view of feminism and a highly individualized expression of her position as a woman artist. Throughout her career, Riding made significant use of literal and figurative “precious objects.” This chapter focuses on two types of precious objects: the elusive female muse (the inspiring, objectified figure in Western poetic tradition), and the presence of jewelry in Riding’s art and life, as represented in her poetry and in a gold tiara she owned and wore.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
“Making” here becomes the movement of two hands coming together, approaching a sameness that they can never fully achieve. The two forces are metaphorically associated with “practice” and “theory”.
“Making” here becomes the movement of two hands coming together, approaching a sameness that they can never fully achieve. The two forces are metaphorically associated with “practice” and “theory”.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Skin is the boundary that separates a person from his environment, and a person shaving himself is simultaneously a subject acting and an object being acted upon. The gesture, or its absence, becomes ...
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Skin is the boundary that separates a person from his environment, and a person shaving himself is simultaneously a subject acting and an object being acted upon. The gesture, or its absence, becomes an expression of the way a given person orients himself with respect to others.Less
Skin is the boundary that separates a person from his environment, and a person shaving himself is simultaneously a subject acting and an object being acted upon. The gesture, or its absence, becomes an expression of the way a given person orients himself with respect to others.
Vilém Flusser
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816691272
- eISBN:
- 9781452949222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691272.003.0017
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Video is here sharply distinguished from film, notably in its potential for immediate playback, allowing those behind the camera to change places with those before the camera, and opening ...
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Video is here sharply distinguished from film, notably in its potential for immediate playback, allowing those behind the camera to change places with those before the camera, and opening opportunities for visual dialogue.Less
Video is here sharply distinguished from film, notably in its potential for immediate playback, allowing those behind the camera to change places with those before the camera, and opening opportunities for visual dialogue.
