tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post5734134943525701758..comments2024-03-22T00:20:38.510-07:00Comments on Adam Riggio writes: We Can Think Differently Without Putting Each Other Down, Composing, 13/08/2013Adam Riggiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-5386976632919174412013-08-13T19:43:39.970-07:002013-08-13T19:43:39.970-07:00"Ambiguity is... [implicit in] existence, and..."Ambiguity is... [implicit in] existence, and everything we live or think has always several meanings. [...] In becoming transformed into existence, [X] has taken upon itself a general significance [...], so loaded with the passage of time that it ['in-its-self'] is an impossible undertaking to seek"<br /><br />-????<br /><br />"...One step for life,one step for thought. Modes of life inspire ways of thinking; modes of thinking create modes of living. Life activates thought, and thought in turn affirms life. [In contemporary academic philosophy] we have only instances where thought bridles and mutilates life, making it sensible, and where life takes revenge and drives thought mad...The choice between mediocre lives and mad thinkers. Lives that are too docile for thinkers, and thoughts too mad for the living: Kant and Holderlin. ..Philosophy becomes noting more than the taking census of all the reasons [hu]man gives himself to obey...[static, rigid or adversarial philosophical discourse]...made life something that must be judged, measured, restricted...something exercised in the name of a higher value: the Divine, the True, the Beautiful, The Good, [or X]...With [adversarial attitudes] emerges the figure of a philosopher who is voluntarily and subtly submissive...dialectics itself perpetuates this prestigiditation. ..Did we kill God when we put [rigorous 'philosophy' and argumentation] in his place and kept the most important thing; the place?" Guy Sapienshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17573152381138943507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-74069550366659038842013-08-13T16:36:06.455-07:002013-08-13T16:36:06.455-07:00This is neither here nor there, but my own awarene...This is neither here nor there, but my own awareness of Kojeve emerged from a sudden, intense, but then suddenly absent interest in Georges Bataille. Your utopias project might benefit from a bit of Bataille, who was the ultimate anti-utopian -- obsessed with Hegel's synthesis and the negation that creates in what has not been synthesized, Bataille struggled for years to articulate a philosophical category for the absent, formless, abject etc. My interest was sparked by a fantastic collection by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, "L'Informe. Mode d'Emploi" (I think it was translated). He is also a significant figure in the intellectual milieu that seems to interest you and influenced people like Sartre (if only by dint of his rather abrasive personality).<br /><br />PS Jstor has another interesting article on the subject attributed to Bo Earle, "performance of negation, negation of performance..." in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2002), pp. 48-67.Tom Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942888225118081569noreply@blogger.com