Richard M. Carp
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195335989
- eISBN:
- 9780199868940
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335989.003.0014
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The emerging field of the anthropology of the senses critiques not only the academy's verbocentrism but also its (scopotropism (hypervisuality)) at the same time that it argues for a reintegration of ...
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The emerging field of the anthropology of the senses critiques not only the academy's verbocentrism but also its (scopotropism (hypervisuality)) at the same time that it argues for a reintegration of all other senses into the practice of ethnography. This does not mean we should not use films in our religious studies classes, but it does mean that both students and (especially) teachers should have some sophistication in thinking about the medium. As an example, the films of Jean Rouch have been held up as the filmic equivalent of Artaud's “theatre of cruelty,” including films on religious phenomena such as African spirit possession. This chapter articulates a particular theoretical perspective on film and religion (anthropology of the senses) and presents a discussion of teaching this approach in the classroom.Less
The emerging field of the anthropology of the senses critiques not only the academy's verbocentrism but also its (scopotropism (hypervisuality)) at the same time that it argues for a reintegration of all other senses into the practice of ethnography. This does not mean we should not use films in our religious studies classes, but it does mean that both students and (especially) teachers should have some sophistication in thinking about the medium. As an example, the films of Jean Rouch have been held up as the filmic equivalent of Artaud's “theatre of cruelty,” including films on religious phenomena such as African spirit possession. This chapter articulates a particular theoretical perspective on film and religion (anthropology of the senses) and presents a discussion of teaching this approach in the classroom.
Cecilia Sjöholm
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231173087
- eISBN:
- 9780231539906
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231173087.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
Relying on Kantian notions of judgement, Sjöholm explores its relevance and applications in Arendt’s aesthetics. Arendt argues that taste alone cannot be the requisite of judgement. Historically, ...
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Relying on Kantian notions of judgement, Sjöholm explores its relevance and applications in Arendt’s aesthetics. Arendt argues that taste alone cannot be the requisite of judgement. Historically, racism and xenophobia can corrupt taste a pure category, such as the corrupt ideology of the Third Reich. Arendt critiques Kant by arguing that, both, aesthetics operates at the level of appearances and appearances can be corrupted by totalitarian regimes and thought. Perception – which is offered as sedimentation of appearances - informs aesthetics. Narratives solidify a sense of the real community and can similarly pervert perception through ideology. As always, Arendt is historically considering The Third Reich in the background of all theorizing, and Sjöholm is directly engaging with Arendt’s political commitment. Arendt locates the ‘sensus communis’ away from the transcendental logic of Kant, and towards the plurality of the public sphere. Arendt’s ‘sensus communis’ is the solidification of a collective, plural and political body towards a new reality; the integration of plurality of senses through the production of a communityLess
Relying on Kantian notions of judgement, Sjöholm explores its relevance and applications in Arendt’s aesthetics. Arendt argues that taste alone cannot be the requisite of judgement. Historically, racism and xenophobia can corrupt taste a pure category, such as the corrupt ideology of the Third Reich. Arendt critiques Kant by arguing that, both, aesthetics operates at the level of appearances and appearances can be corrupted by totalitarian regimes and thought. Perception – which is offered as sedimentation of appearances - informs aesthetics. Narratives solidify a sense of the real community and can similarly pervert perception through ideology. As always, Arendt is historically considering The Third Reich in the background of all theorizing, and Sjöholm is directly engaging with Arendt’s political commitment. Arendt locates the ‘sensus communis’ away from the transcendental logic of Kant, and towards the plurality of the public sphere. Arendt’s ‘sensus communis’ is the solidification of a collective, plural and political body towards a new reality; the integration of plurality of senses through the production of a community
Michael Potter
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199252619
- eISBN:
- 9780191712647
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252619.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics
The problem of reconciling the necessity of arithmetic with its applicability illustrates of the more general problem of explaining the applicability of the propositions of pure reason to experience. ...
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The problem of reconciling the necessity of arithmetic with its applicability illustrates of the more general problem of explaining the applicability of the propositions of pure reason to experience. For Kant, it becomes urgent only in relation to propositions which, although in some sense the products of pure reason, nevertheless have a subject matter: the danger is that we conceive of this subject matter as consisting of objects existing in a realm wholly isolated from the world of experience, and it is then apt to seem puzzling how features of this abstract realm could possibly be relevant to reasoning about the empirical one. The key to the way out of this difficulty that Kant recommended is for us to contrive that those concepts and principles which we adopt a priori be used for viewing objects from two different points of view — on the one hand, in connection with experience, as objects of the senses and of the understanding, and on the other hand, using isolated reason that strives to transcend all limits of experience.Less
The problem of reconciling the necessity of arithmetic with its applicability illustrates of the more general problem of explaining the applicability of the propositions of pure reason to experience. For Kant, it becomes urgent only in relation to propositions which, although in some sense the products of pure reason, nevertheless have a subject matter: the danger is that we conceive of this subject matter as consisting of objects existing in a realm wholly isolated from the world of experience, and it is then apt to seem puzzling how features of this abstract realm could possibly be relevant to reasoning about the empirical one. The key to the way out of this difficulty that Kant recommended is for us to contrive that those concepts and principles which we adopt a priori be used for viewing objects from two different points of view — on the one hand, in connection with experience, as objects of the senses and of the understanding, and on the other hand, using isolated reason that strives to transcend all limits of experience.
Belden C. Lane
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199755080
- eISBN:
- 9780199894956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199755080.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
A Calvinist spirituality of desire, celebrating the beauty of God in creation, reached a new height in Jonathan Edwards in the eighteenth century. A theologian of beauty par excellence, he perceived ...
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A Calvinist spirituality of desire, celebrating the beauty of God in creation, reached a new height in Jonathan Edwards in the eighteenth century. A theologian of beauty par excellence, he perceived the shared desire of the Holy Trinity as continually overflowing in its effort to replicate its glory in the wonders of the world and the beauty of the human soul. Influenced by Lockian epistemology and the fervor of the revival, he emphasized a sensory knowledge of God. This was experienced in a new “spiritual sense” that allowed believers to relish the aesthetic grandeur of a world alive with beauty. For Edwards, aesthetics were inseparably related to ethics, as he went on to emphasize how “delighting” in beauty also necessitates the “bestowing” of beauty on others.Less
A Calvinist spirituality of desire, celebrating the beauty of God in creation, reached a new height in Jonathan Edwards in the eighteenth century. A theologian of beauty par excellence, he perceived the shared desire of the Holy Trinity as continually overflowing in its effort to replicate its glory in the wonders of the world and the beauty of the human soul. Influenced by Lockian epistemology and the fervor of the revival, he emphasized a sensory knowledge of God. This was experienced in a new “spiritual sense” that allowed believers to relish the aesthetic grandeur of a world alive with beauty. For Edwards, aesthetics were inseparably related to ethics, as he went on to emphasize how “delighting” in beauty also necessitates the “bestowing” of beauty on others.
Lindsay Hale
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195149180
- eISBN:
- 9780199835386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195149181.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The ritual aesthetics of Afrobrazilian religions such as Umbanda and Candomblé exhibit a great range of diversity. This chapter explores the possibility that the diverse aesthetics of Afrobrazilian ...
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The ritual aesthetics of Afrobrazilian religions such as Umbanda and Candomblé exhibit a great range of diversity. This chapter explores the possibility that the diverse aesthetics of Afrobrazilian religion reflect and express divergent stances toward contested issues of race and identity in Brazil, while constituting markedly different experiences of spirituality and the sacred. The chapter suggests that we approach Afrobrazilian religious aesthetics through a “politics of the senses.”Less
The ritual aesthetics of Afrobrazilian religions such as Umbanda and Candomblé exhibit a great range of diversity. This chapter explores the possibility that the diverse aesthetics of Afrobrazilian religion reflect and express divergent stances toward contested issues of race and identity in Brazil, while constituting markedly different experiences of spirituality and the sacred. The chapter suggests that we approach Afrobrazilian religious aesthetics through a “politics of the senses.”
Anderson Blanton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469623979
- eISBN:
- 9781469623993
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469623979.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern ...
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In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia. From the radios used to broadcast prayer to the curative faith cloths circulated through the postal system, material objects known as spirit-matter have become essential since the 1940s, Blanton argues, to the Pentecostal community's understanding and performances of faith. Hittin' the Prayer Bones draws on Blanton's extensive site visits with church congregations, radio preachers and their listeners inside and outside the broadcasting studios, and more than thirty years of recorded charismatic worship made available to him by a small Christian radio station. In documenting the transformation and consecration of everyday objects through performances of communal worship, healing prayer, and chanted preaching, Blanton frames his ethnographic research in the historiography of faith healing and prayer, as well as theoretical models of materiality and transcendence. At the same time, his work affectingly conveys the feelings of horror, healing, and humor that are unleashed in practitioners as they experience, in their own words, the sacred, healing presence of the Holy Ghost.Less
In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia. From the radios used to broadcast prayer to the curative faith cloths circulated through the postal system, material objects known as spirit-matter have become essential since the 1940s, Blanton argues, to the Pentecostal community's understanding and performances of faith. Hittin' the Prayer Bones draws on Blanton's extensive site visits with church congregations, radio preachers and their listeners inside and outside the broadcasting studios, and more than thirty years of recorded charismatic worship made available to him by a small Christian radio station. In documenting the transformation and consecration of everyday objects through performances of communal worship, healing prayer, and chanted preaching, Blanton frames his ethnographic research in the historiography of faith healing and prayer, as well as theoretical models of materiality and transcendence. At the same time, his work affectingly conveys the feelings of horror, healing, and humor that are unleashed in practitioners as they experience, in their own words, the sacred, healing presence of the Holy Ghost.
Paul Helm
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199590391
- eISBN:
- 9780191595516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590391.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter and the next are concerned with the idea of God as the timeless cause of the creation. In what sense is there a beginning of creation? God does not exist (temporally) the creation, but ...
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This chapter and the next are concerned with the idea of God as the timeless cause of the creation. In what sense is there a beginning of creation? God does not exist (temporally) the creation, but he exists before it in a hierarchical sense. The temporal universe could come about either within time or with time. So in creating, God is untouched by his creation, exempt from temporal changes. Such timelessness is durationless, and the first moment of creation is not to be identified with a physical event, such as the Big Bang. Richard Swinburne's critique of timelessness is considered. The sense in which God literally ‘causes’ his creation is discussed. It is denied that causation is an essentially temporal notion.Less
This chapter and the next are concerned with the idea of God as the timeless cause of the creation. In what sense is there a beginning of creation? God does not exist (temporally) the creation, but he exists before it in a hierarchical sense. The temporal universe could come about either within time or with time. So in creating, God is untouched by his creation, exempt from temporal changes. Such timelessness is durationless, and the first moment of creation is not to be identified with a physical event, such as the Big Bang. Richard Swinburne's critique of timelessness is considered. The sense in which God literally ‘causes’ his creation is discussed. It is denied that causation is an essentially temporal notion.
W. Underhill James
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638420
- eISBN:
- 9780748671809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638420.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics
This short chapter introduces Wilhelm von Humboldt's concept of worldview. It considers the way the terms Weltbegriff and Weltanschauung were used by Humboldt's predecessor, Kant, and the way those ...
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This short chapter introduces Wilhelm von Humboldt's concept of worldview. It considers the way the terms Weltbegriff and Weltanschauung were used by Humboldt's predecessor, Kant, and the way those concepts were harnessed and promoted by Hegel. It considers political worldviews such as the Nazi worldview studied by Klemperer. But the author shows the relevance of Jürgen Trabant's crucial distinction, between political, ideological or religious worldviews, on the one hand, and the concept of a language as a human conceptual construction of the world as a place in which each speaker takes his or her place. Ideologies can be discussed and argued over, but only language gives us the concepts, of man, history, destiny, nation, and morality, and so on, which allow us to debate the foundations and validity of ideologies and systems of thought.Less
This short chapter introduces Wilhelm von Humboldt's concept of worldview. It considers the way the terms Weltbegriff and Weltanschauung were used by Humboldt's predecessor, Kant, and the way those concepts were harnessed and promoted by Hegel. It considers political worldviews such as the Nazi worldview studied by Klemperer. But the author shows the relevance of Jürgen Trabant's crucial distinction, between political, ideological or religious worldviews, on the one hand, and the concept of a language as a human conceptual construction of the world as a place in which each speaker takes his or her place. Ideologies can be discussed and argued over, but only language gives us the concepts, of man, history, destiny, nation, and morality, and so on, which allow us to debate the foundations and validity of ideologies and systems of thought.
Jesse J. Prinz
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195314595
- eISBN:
- 9780199979059
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314595.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
There is ample evidence that perception is hierarchically organized. This raises the question, where in perceptual hierarchies does consciousness arise? Long ago, Ray Jackendoff proposed an answer: ...
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There is ample evidence that perception is hierarchically organized. This raises the question, where in perceptual hierarchies does consciousness arise? Long ago, Ray Jackendoff proposed an answer: consciousness arises only at an intermediate-level, which lies between piecemeal sensory inputs and the more abstract representations used in object recognition. The intermediate level is perspectival; it presents a world of objects from a particular point of view. The chapter surveys evidence from neuroscience in support of the hypothesis is restricted to this level of representation. The evidence mostly concerns vision, but is extended to other sensory modalities, to language, and to emotions. Nine objections are addressed, including evidence that purports to show evidence for consciousness at low or high levels of perceptual hierarchies.Less
There is ample evidence that perception is hierarchically organized. This raises the question, where in perceptual hierarchies does consciousness arise? Long ago, Ray Jackendoff proposed an answer: consciousness arises only at an intermediate-level, which lies between piecemeal sensory inputs and the more abstract representations used in object recognition. The intermediate level is perspectival; it presents a world of objects from a particular point of view. The chapter surveys evidence from neuroscience in support of the hypothesis is restricted to this level of representation. The evidence mostly concerns vision, but is extended to other sensory modalities, to language, and to emotions. Nine objections are addressed, including evidence that purports to show evidence for consciousness at low or high levels of perceptual hierarchies.
Sean Bowden
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748643592
- eISBN:
- 9780748652624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643592.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze's relation to psychoanalysis in his The Logic of Sense. It suggests that this relation is focused on the problem concerning how the surface, with its constitutive ...
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This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze's relation to psychoanalysis in his The Logic of Sense. It suggests that this relation is focused on the problem concerning how the surface, with its constitutive series of things and propositions, can be understood as an event which is itself determined on the surface. It explains that Deleuze turned to psychoanalysis because it is capable of thinking the genesis of structure in a structural way and because psychoanalysis develops a structural account of the event of the symbolic order for the child, which is the symbolic being for the metaphysical surface, problem or structure of sense.Less
This chapter explores Gilles Deleuze's relation to psychoanalysis in his The Logic of Sense. It suggests that this relation is focused on the problem concerning how the surface, with its constitutive series of things and propositions, can be understood as an event which is itself determined on the surface. It explains that Deleuze turned to psychoanalysis because it is capable of thinking the genesis of structure in a structural way and because psychoanalysis develops a structural account of the event of the symbolic order for the child, which is the symbolic being for the metaphysical surface, problem or structure of sense.
Peter S. Fosl
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474451123
- eISBN:
- 9781474476928
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451123.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Chapter Seven undertakes to articulate Hume’s scepticism with regard to the third dimension of the Pyrrhonian Fourfold—technê. More particularly, the chapter examines the instruments he deploys ...
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Chapter Seven undertakes to articulate Hume’s scepticism with regard to the third dimension of the Pyrrhonian Fourfold—technê. More particularly, the chapter examines the instruments he deploys against dogmatism, that is his technologies of doubt. The chapter devotes special attention to Hume’s sceptical arguments regarding the epistemic capacities of reason and the senses, especially in regard to the primary/secondary quality distinction and what Hume calls ‘false philosophy.’ The text argues that Hume is an entirely radical sceptic who refuses all epistemic and metaphysical claims, including those related to personal identity, the immateriality of the soul, hidden substances, energies, and powers, including the causal power. The chapter explains what exactly counts for Hume as dogmatism and what is not consistent with scepticism. The chapter explores the import to empiricism of Hume’s Copy Principle.Less
Chapter Seven undertakes to articulate Hume’s scepticism with regard to the third dimension of the Pyrrhonian Fourfold—technê. More particularly, the chapter examines the instruments he deploys against dogmatism, that is his technologies of doubt. The chapter devotes special attention to Hume’s sceptical arguments regarding the epistemic capacities of reason and the senses, especially in regard to the primary/secondary quality distinction and what Hume calls ‘false philosophy.’ The text argues that Hume is an entirely radical sceptic who refuses all epistemic and metaphysical claims, including those related to personal identity, the immateriality of the soul, hidden substances, energies, and powers, including the causal power. The chapter explains what exactly counts for Hume as dogmatism and what is not consistent with scepticism. The chapter explores the import to empiricism of Hume’s Copy Principle.
J. Hillis Miller
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823225378
- eISBN:
- 9780823235391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823225378.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
This chapter analyzes Henry James's The Sense of the Past using the speech act theory. It explores the possible reasons why James failed to finish this book and suggests that ...
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This chapter analyzes Henry James's The Sense of the Past using the speech act theory. It explores the possible reasons why James failed to finish this book and suggests that it may have had something to do with his intention to have the novel end happily with the marriage of the hero to the woman he loved and left behind in New York. It also provides an account of philosopher Jacques Derrida as a critic of English literature.Less
This chapter analyzes Henry James's The Sense of the Past using the speech act theory. It explores the possible reasons why James failed to finish this book and suggests that it may have had something to do with his intention to have the novel end happily with the marriage of the hero to the woman he loved and left behind in New York. It also provides an account of philosopher Jacques Derrida as a critic of English literature.
Sean Bowden
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748643592
- eISBN:
- 9780748652624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643592.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter examines Gilles Deleuze's concept of structure in his The Logic of Sense, its identity with the concept of the problem, and how it guided Deleuze's thinking about language. It analyses ...
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This chapter examines Gilles Deleuze's concept of structure in his The Logic of Sense, its identity with the concept of the problem, and how it guided Deleuze's thinking about language. It analyses how some of the issues related to the influence of the Stoics and Gottfried Leibniz on Gilles philosophy of event can be re-described in structuralist terms. It shows how syntheses of singularities-events are most effectively described in structuralist terms and in terms of problems and solutions.Less
This chapter examines Gilles Deleuze's concept of structure in his The Logic of Sense, its identity with the concept of the problem, and how it guided Deleuze's thinking about language. It analyses how some of the issues related to the influence of the Stoics and Gottfried Leibniz on Gilles philosophy of event can be re-described in structuralist terms. It shows how syntheses of singularities-events are most effectively described in structuralist terms and in terms of problems and solutions.
Guillaume Collett
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474409025
- eISBN:
- 9781474426978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409025.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
There are many ways to view the genesis of sense in The Logic of Sense. One way that has been emphasised in the secondary literature is as the emergence of consciousness from the body’s affects.1 ...
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There are many ways to view the genesis of sense in The Logic of Sense. One way that has been emphasised in the secondary literature is as the emergence of consciousness from the body’s affects.1 There is, however, a more interesting and important genesis at stake beneath this one. If the first genesis takes us from the verb to the logical proposition and empirical consciousness, the second off-piste route goes from the verb to the univocity of being. As Deleuze writes, playing on the literal meaning of the scholastic term univocity2 – one voice (voce) – ‘The univocity of Being signifies that Being is Voice, that it is said.’3Less
There are many ways to view the genesis of sense in The Logic of Sense. One way that has been emphasised in the secondary literature is as the emergence of consciousness from the body’s affects.1 There is, however, a more interesting and important genesis at stake beneath this one. If the first genesis takes us from the verb to the logical proposition and empirical consciousness, the second off-piste route goes from the verb to the univocity of being. As Deleuze writes, playing on the literal meaning of the scholastic term univocity2 – one voice (voce) – ‘The univocity of Being signifies that Being is Voice, that it is said.’3
Jeffrey A. Bell and Claire Colebrook (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748636082
- eISBN:
- 9780748671748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748636082.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter explores how to read Gilles Deleuze's texts in relation to one another and in relation to the problems and concepts they appear to share. The Logic of Sense presents one of the most ...
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This chapter explores how to read Gilles Deleuze's texts in relation to one another and in relation to the problems and concepts they appear to share. The Logic of Sense presents one of the most detailed accounts of the incorporeal realm of becoming and the pure event to be found anywhere in Deleuze. In Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense and What is Philosophy?, Deleuze cites the same passage from Charles Péguy's Clio. In the first two texts, the passage is used to support the idea that there are two levels or dimensions of time. What is Philosophy? refers to the same passage in support of a different thesis. Deleuze and Félix Guattari's conception of history depends on the outline according to which virtual movements find expression in actual historical processes. They developed concepts that express the virtual dynamics of historical and other kinds of event.Less
This chapter explores how to read Gilles Deleuze's texts in relation to one another and in relation to the problems and concepts they appear to share. The Logic of Sense presents one of the most detailed accounts of the incorporeal realm of becoming and the pure event to be found anywhere in Deleuze. In Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense and What is Philosophy?, Deleuze cites the same passage from Charles Péguy's Clio. In the first two texts, the passage is used to support the idea that there are two levels or dimensions of time. What is Philosophy? refers to the same passage in support of a different thesis. Deleuze and Félix Guattari's conception of history depends on the outline according to which virtual movements find expression in actual historical processes. They developed concepts that express the virtual dynamics of historical and other kinds of event.
Sean Bowden
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748643592
- eISBN:
- 9780748652624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643592.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on how Gilles Deleuze asserted the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work The Logic of Sense. It explains that ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on how Gilles Deleuze asserted the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work The Logic of Sense. It explains that Deleuze extracted from the work of several thinkers, including Gottfried Leibniz, the Stoics, and Gilbert Simondon, a number of event-related problems and a hybrid family of event-related concepts which can be said to resolve the ‘event’. The chapter also reviews the various stages of the way in which Deleuze constructed his concept of the event, spelling out how the event is to be understood if everything is ultimately to be thought of as ontologically dependent on events.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on how Gilles Deleuze asserted the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work The Logic of Sense. It explains that Deleuze extracted from the work of several thinkers, including Gottfried Leibniz, the Stoics, and Gilbert Simondon, a number of event-related problems and a hybrid family of event-related concepts which can be said to resolve the ‘event’. The chapter also reviews the various stages of the way in which Deleuze constructed his concept of the event, spelling out how the event is to be understood if everything is ultimately to be thought of as ontologically dependent on events.
Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199791606
- eISBN:
- 9780199932290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199791606.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Edwards's exclusively exegetical works fill nearly five volumes in the Yale edition. As an eighteenth-century exegete, his approach may be distinguished from the Enlightenment thinkers, Roman ...
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Edwards's exclusively exegetical works fill nearly five volumes in the Yale edition. As an eighteenth-century exegete, his approach may be distinguished from the Enlightenment thinkers, Roman Catholics, and radical evangelicals. Central to Edwards's approach to Biblical interpretation was the “sense of the heart.” The same divine illumination that caused the saint to perceive the beauty of God amid the wonders of the natural world also caused the saint to see both the surface level and the deeper meanings contained in holy writ. Without abandoning the foundational role of the literal sense, he showed a tilt toward the spiritual sense. Identifying the spiritual sense of scripture ultimately allows the interpreter to place all the pieces of the Old and New Testaments into a coherent whole.Less
Edwards's exclusively exegetical works fill nearly five volumes in the Yale edition. As an eighteenth-century exegete, his approach may be distinguished from the Enlightenment thinkers, Roman Catholics, and radical evangelicals. Central to Edwards's approach to Biblical interpretation was the “sense of the heart.” The same divine illumination that caused the saint to perceive the beauty of God amid the wonders of the natural world also caused the saint to see both the surface level and the deeper meanings contained in holy writ. Without abandoning the foundational role of the literal sense, he showed a tilt toward the spiritual sense. Identifying the spiritual sense of scripture ultimately allows the interpreter to place all the pieces of the Old and New Testaments into a coherent whole.
Akira Mizuta Lippit
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099845
- eISBN:
- 9789882206731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099845.003.0010
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines Japanese films with themes focusing on the specificity of places—cities, states, worlds, and spaces—and on the relation between particular places and the larger world that ...
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This chapter examines Japanese films with themes focusing on the specificity of places—cities, states, worlds, and spaces—and on the relation between particular places and the larger world that surrounds it, to a “sense of the world.” One example is Yukisada Isao's 2004 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World, which navigates a complex geography of disparate elements in space, time, history, and memory, developing a mode of transit that takes characters to and from specific times and places in a phantom passage between this world and that other world. As the title suggests, the film invokes a sense of the world, a center of the world, in the form of a sense or affect (love and loss) and a mode of expression, crying, or more accurately, shouting.Less
This chapter examines Japanese films with themes focusing on the specificity of places—cities, states, worlds, and spaces—and on the relation between particular places and the larger world that surrounds it, to a “sense of the world.” One example is Yukisada Isao's 2004 Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World, which navigates a complex geography of disparate elements in space, time, history, and memory, developing a mode of transit that takes characters to and from specific times and places in a phantom passage between this world and that other world. As the title suggests, the film invokes a sense of the world, a center of the world, in the form of a sense or affect (love and loss) and a mode of expression, crying, or more accurately, shouting.
Sean Bowden
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748643592
- eISBN:
- 9780748652624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643592.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This volume aims to examine and clarify the complex way in which Gilles Deleuze asserts the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work The Logic of Sense. It examines the way in ...
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This volume aims to examine and clarify the complex way in which Gilles Deleuze asserts the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work The Logic of Sense. It examines the way in which Deleuze grounds this assertion by establishing a relation, the precise nature of which is shown in this chapter, between the works representative of several philosophers and intellectual movements, including the Stoics, Gottfried Leibniz, Albert Lautman, Gilbert Simondon, structuralism and psychoanalysis. It shows that The Logic of Sense's paradoxical element is nothing other than the problem of the event, or the problem of affirming the ontological priority of events over substances all the way down.Less
This volume aims to examine and clarify the complex way in which Gilles Deleuze asserts the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work The Logic of Sense. It examines the way in which Deleuze grounds this assertion by establishing a relation, the precise nature of which is shown in this chapter, between the works representative of several philosophers and intellectual movements, including the Stoics, Gottfried Leibniz, Albert Lautman, Gilbert Simondon, structuralism and psychoanalysis. It shows that The Logic of Sense's paradoxical element is nothing other than the problem of the event, or the problem of affirming the ontological priority of events over substances all the way down.
Guillaume Collett
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474409025
- eISBN:
- 9781474426978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409025.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Firstly, this marriage of language and the unconscious – or this paradoxical unity of sense and nonsense – appears to allude to the work of the Lacanian school, which he later adds has ‘completely ...
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Firstly, this marriage of language and the unconscious – or this paradoxical unity of sense and nonsense – appears to allude to the work of the Lacanian school, which he later adds has ‘completely renewed the general problem of the relations between language and sexuality’.2 Secondly, to contribute something original, in light of Lacan’s work – but also, it is implied, because Lacan’s work has not yet reached its own ground (as conceived by Deleuze) – Deleuze is saying here that we need to turn to the work of Carroll, so as to examine ‘what else’ language and the unconscious are connected with. This third term, it is implied, is more fundamental than either language or the unconscious taken separately, underlying them both and accounting for the importance of their relation.Less
Firstly, this marriage of language and the unconscious – or this paradoxical unity of sense and nonsense – appears to allude to the work of the Lacanian school, which he later adds has ‘completely renewed the general problem of the relations between language and sexuality’.2 Secondly, to contribute something original, in light of Lacan’s work – but also, it is implied, because Lacan’s work has not yet reached its own ground (as conceived by Deleuze) – Deleuze is saying here that we need to turn to the work of Carroll, so as to examine ‘what else’ language and the unconscious are connected with. This third term, it is implied, is more fundamental than either language or the unconscious taken separately, underlying them both and accounting for the importance of their relation.
