Pub Date : 2023-07-29DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2238957
Arun A. Iyer
ABSTRACT Arguing that the seafarers in Hölderlin’s late hymn “Remembrance” are ambiguous, as they keep slipping between the figure of the merchant and the refugee, this paper juxtaposes how the ambiguous seafarers in Hölderlin’s poem and the protagonists in Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus, who are all refugees, relate to the sea. This juxtaposition allows us to arrive at a philosophical distillation of the existence of the refugee, who, caught between the competing injunctions to forget and to remember, represents the entire gamut of human existence. Coetzee’s novel complements Hölderlin’s poem by showing us that the refugee, in facing existential dilemmas that pertain to the very ground of all morality, is not to be seen as a victim or an eternal object of pity, but as a figure exhibiting a sovereignty of incomparable magnitude.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2235769
R. Llorente
ABSTRACT One influential explanation for the apparent shortcomings of Latin American philosophy is the “culture of domination” thesis, defended by Augusto Salazar Bondy (1926–1974). According to Salazar Bondy, the ultimate source of the problems besetting Latin American philosophy was to be found in the “culture of domination” that characterized Latin America countries and decisively shaped the philosophical activity of the thinkers working in those countries. In defending his thesis, Salazar Bondy introduced a number of ideas that remain useful for understanding various aspects of Latin American philosophy. However, his commitment to a rather excessive determinism and his endorsement of a certain kind of essentialism ultimately undermine the plausibility of both the “culture of domination” thesis and his proposals for the regeneration of Latin American philosophy.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2234700
Dennis Stromback
ABSTRACT This review essay discusses, summarizes, and evaluates Bradley Kaye’s latest book, Marx After the Kyoto School, in which he imagines a hypothetical roundtable where Nishida and the Kyoto School philosophers and Marx and the Marxists debate the nature of reality, with the goal of facilitating new creative interpretations and potential hermeneutical engagements. While Kaye’s vision is quite convincing in the end, there are some limits as to how far this imaginary conversation can go. This essay examines the strengths and weaknesses of Kaye’s ambitious project.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2234701
Shuchen Xiang
ABSTRACT The theoretical and moral bedrock of Western colonialism has been its claim to “universalism.” Central to this universalism is a Cartesian dualism in which only the disembodied mind has access to the universal, and the body, as a mere particular, does not. This paper (Part 1) and the following paper (Part 2) propose an alternative model of “universalism” as the totality of interactions between embodied particulars. This model of “universalism” is based on the relationship between the classical Chinese philosophical concepts of “feeling” (qing, 情), interaction (gan, 感), and the unimpeded free-flow (tong, 通) that results. This Chinese model of universalism is ultimately based on the organicist metaphysics of life that understands meaning and order to be the result of organic interaction between bodies. this paper will show how the dominant Chinese tradition understood the universal as a result of the sympathetic interaction between embodied particulars.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2234699
Amanda Parris
ABSTRACT A review of Patrick O’Connor’s Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned. O’Connor argues that McCarthy is a literary philosopher of tragic ontology. While acknowledging that tragic ontology is a powerful lens for analyzing McCarthy, whose characters are unwitting heirs of generations of human and a-human forces, the review also points to the problems with reading McCarthy as a philosopher of mitigated salvation or redemption, proposing that he is better understood as a pessimist who reveals the lie of progress.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2234698
Michael J. Ardoline
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2217590
Christopher C. Huck
ABSTRACT The sublime has been a baffling concept since its introduction by Longinus nearly two thousand years ago. What do we mean when we say something is sublime? This paper will attempt to answer that question by proposing a radical new theory of the sublime, examining the aesthetic experience called the sublime through the lens of the Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical view of emptiness (Skt. śūnyatā). Drawing on Guy Sircello’s work (1993), I critique traditional Western accounts of the sublime, with their explicit or implicit—but always problematic—commitments to epistemological and ontological transcendence. A brief summary of the Madhyamaka Buddhist view of emptiness, as elucidated in the Prajñāpāramitā literature, Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, and elsewhere, provides a context for examining the dialectic of the sublime and emptiness. I make the argument that the sublime experience is, in fact, an experience of emptiness. I conclude by surveying five years of the early work of visual artist Robert Rauschenberg, which express the open, clear, vivid, and unselfconscious space of emptiness in his approach to, and process of, artistic expression.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2234702
Shuchen Xiang
ABSTRACTABSTRACTCartesianism is deified as the mythical beginning of Modern Western Philosophy. This paper draws on evaluations of the epistemology and colonial context of Cartesianism from Latin American philosophers to show how the Cartesian project of universalism has been detrimental to non-Western cultures. In contrast to this exclusionist universalism, this paper provides an alternative model of universalism that is premised on the interaction between embodied particulars. It stresses how, in this Chinese conception of universalism as resulting from feeling (gan, 感) and response (ying, 应), the agent is expected to subdue her own ego and its desire to impose itself onto particulars. This imposition would be an obstruction that impedes the free flow of interactions between particulars and so acts as an impediment to participating in the “universal.” This reconstructed Chinese conception of universalism resonates with Enrique Dussel’s self-reflexive understanding of Modernity and Aimé Césaire’s conception of the universal.KEYWORDS: Qing (情)universalismEnrique DusselCartesianismEdward Saiddecolonial AcknowledgementsMy thanks to Jacob Bender for reading previous drafts of this paper and for his always invaluable input. My thanks also to the editors of this journal David Jones and Jennifer Liu for their help throughout the publication process. My thanks also to the copyeditor for her very insightful edits.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsShuchen XiangShuchen Xiang is Mount Hua Professor of Philosophy in the department of philosophy at Xidian University, China. She is author of A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer (SUNY Press, 2021), Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea (Princeton University Press, 2023).
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Pub Date : 2023-03-19DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2183371
S. Gusman
{"title":"The Phenomenology of AdventureSimmel, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Jankélévitch","authors":"S. Gusman","doi":"10.1080/17570638.2023.2183371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2023.2183371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10599,"journal":{"name":"Comparative and Continental Philosophy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49510727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/17570638.2023.2183372
James Bahoh
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