Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2021.1913833
Celia Cabrera, V. Kretschel
ABSTRACT In spite of the supposed lack of attention paid to it by Husserl in his early works on time, the future is an important topic for phenomenology that gains increasing relevance in his late works. Regarding the experience of the future, phenomenology can approach the subjective possibility of anticipating what is not yet given, both actively and passively. A new perspective on the subject’s relation to the future arises thanks to the consideration of practical phenomena. What is at stake here is the possibility of doing something with what is not yet given. In this sense, our principal concern is to contextualize Husserĺs reference to the relationship between willing and future in the framework of his more general analysis of the future; at the same time, we seek to answer a question that arises in the analysis of time: the problem of novelty, and the possibility of creativity.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2021.1898726
Matías Soich
ABSTRACT Argentina has a rich history of social movements, of which the transgender is one of the most notorious and resilient. In this work, I present South American Transvestite Theory, its latest theoretical development, in the light of Deleuzian thought. Although Deleuze is not an actual source for this current, both can be productively connected as sharing several themes and concerns, such as the tight relation between creative thought and political practice, the ontological and practical consequences of the concepts of identity and becoming, and the rejection of binary models as an underlying structure of hierarchical thought and social oppression. The potentiality of the encounter between Deleuze and South American Transvestite Theory will be explored via four heuristic questions, reminiscent of the Aristotelian causes, which respectively ask about their concrete intersections, their formal connections, the effects they could trigger and the reasons to read them together.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2021.1910373
Sandra V. Palermo, N. Lerussi
ABSTRACT In this paper, we show that Kant’s complex concept of an “intuitive understanding” (or in a broader sense “superior understanding”), which operates in his work as a tool for defining the peculiar character of our (human) understanding, is critically absorbed by Hegel’s concept of “objective thought.” By means of this concept, Hegel first rejects the representational (and classificatory) conception of thought that is implied by the Kantian concept of an intuitive understanding and, second, he proposes a way of comprehending thought that allows a new conception of the relationship between the subject and reality.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2020.1852863
D. Pollard
This book is about a great deal more than its title suggests. Wirth has always been interested in the overlap between philosophy and other disciplines, as he so well attested in a previous book, Co...
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2020.1842701
Jussi Backman
ABSTRACT This paper compares two influential but conflicting contemporary models of politics as an activity: those of Hannah Arendt and Alain Badiou. It discovers the fundamental difference between their approaches to politics in their opposing evaluations of the contemporary political significance of the legacy of Plato, Platonism, and the Platonic Idea. Karl Popper’s and Arendt’s analyses of the inherently ideological nature of totalitarianism are contrasted with Badiou’s vindication of an ideological “politics of the Idea.” Arendt and Badiou are shown to share an understanding of politics as a realm for the human deployment of novelty and world-transformation. Their key disagreement concerns the form of activity that accomplishes this deployment. For Arendt, political activity has the basic form of noninstrumental and nonteleological action (praxis), devalued by the Platonic tradition of political philosophy. Badiou, by contrast, follows Plato in regarding politics essentially as a process of production (poiēsis) oriented to an ideal end.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2020.1843304
John Sallis
ABSTRACT This essay explores the ways in which frames allow what lies within them to shine forth with exceptional brilliance. It deals, first of all, with the frames of paintings but then is devoted primarily to the kinds of frames that can enclose discourse. Detailed attention is given to the framing constituted by multiple, telescoping reports of a conversation or event. Such framing as it occurs in several Platonic dialogues is investigated in detail. All translations are by the author, though standard translations have been consulted.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2020.1852862
Gerard Kuperus
It almost seems as if David Jones anticipated the current pandemic in bringing out this wonderful collection of essays about solitude. Covid-19 has meant loneliness for many, but it has also left o...
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2020.1864866
Adam Loughnane
ABSTRACT This study places Nāgārjuna and Plato in dialogue regarding how both seek to orient philosophy in the face of indeterminacy observed at the elemental level of existence, specifically, the indeterminacy of fire’s light. Looking to the elemental within Chōra and Śūnyatā, a directive becomes discernible for calibrating philosophy to this indeterminacy, and crucial limitations are disclosed, which expand philosophy by enabling a productive relation to the non-philosophical. What emerges are directives for language, which serve to modify philosophy’s violence towards the world by striking a middle way between the binaries of reification and nihilism, speech and silence.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2020.1837600
Cristina Basili
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on Leo Strauss’s reading of the Republic. I argue that Strauss’s ironic interpretation of the dialogue must be understood in the context of a broader intellectual project which aims to criticize modern and contemporary political philosophy. Strauss’s understanding of Plato is strongly influenced by the hermeneutical principles he draws from his studies of medieval Jewish and Arab philosophy. Reading Plato through Alfarabi, Strauss pursues the idea of the conflict between philosophy and politics, which sheds light, also, on the problem of persecution. Accordingly, he stresses the importance of a peculiar art of reading between the lines. In Strauss’s view, this art is the starting point for recovering the esoteric meaning of the Republic. I will argue that Strauss’s interpretation contradicts several dialogical elements because it does not take into account the broader historical framework of the text. Nevertheless, even with these limitations, Plato scholars should consider Straussian insights, because these offer an untraditional and a non-doctrinal reading of the dialogue.
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