What to do with Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory? An Interview with Jacques Ranciere Conducted by Andrea Allerkamp, Katia Genel, and Mariem Hazoume Translated by Owen Glyn-Williams This interview was originally published in French as “Que faire de la theorie esthetique d’Adorno ?” in Ou en sommes-nous avec la Theorie esthetique d'Adorno ? (Pontcerq, 2018).
如何看待阿多诺的美学理论?采访雅克·朗西埃(Andrea Allerkamp, Katia Genel, and Mariem Hazoume)本次采访最初以法语发表为“Que faire de la theorie esthetique d'Adorno ?”(Pontcerq, 2018)。
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Although Jacques Ranciere and Jurgen Habermas share several important commitments, they interpret various core concepts differently, viewing politics, democracy, communication, and disagreement in conflicting ways. Ranciere articulates his democratic vision in opposition to important elements of Habermas’s approach. Critics contend that Habermas cannot account for the dynamics of command, exclusion, resistance, and aesthetic transformation involved in Ranciere’s understanding of politics. In particular, the prominent roles Habermas affords to communicative rationality and consensus have led people to think that he cannot grasp the radical forms of political disagreement Ranciere describes. While some have viewed Ranciere as offering a trenchant challenge to Habermas, I will contend that Ranciere’s critique is less compelling than some have thought. Habermasian understandings of third personal speech and aesthetic expression are nuanced and adaptable enough to evade Ranciere’s criticisms. I conclude by suggesting that Habermasian theorists have also developed crucial forms of social and political critique that Ranciere’s theory systematically excludes.
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Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Ranciere treat speech as the medium for politics and, likewise, both diagnose the pathologies that follow from blockages on civic speech. That said, these broad commonalities give rise to significant divides regarding the social ontology of language, the forms of power that attend linguistic exchange, and how speech informs democratic agency. Ultimately, the essay will argue that Ranciere highlights the political deficits within deliberative commitments to democratic values. In doing so, his challenge yields broader insights for a democratic politics of speech and the linguistic resources that facilitate such a politics.
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Overview of the special issue on Jacques Ranciere and Critical Theory, along with some additional thoughts.
关于雅克·朗西埃和批判理论的特刊概述,以及一些附加的想法。
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Because Europeans have shaped scholarly discourse about Southeast Asia and Buddhism, movement away from understanding “pure” Theravada Buddhism through religious and philosophical doctrine was a technique to decenter Western readings and shows how practitioners shaped their own beliefs. Stanley Tambiah called for academics to pay more attention to common beliefs of laypeople and everyday practices of monks. This, in turn, placed anthropologists at the center of collecting knowledge about Theravada Buddhism. Yet French philosophers continued, through their theories, to influence the structure of anthropological analysis of Theravada cultures, particular through gift exchanges. In this paper, I will explore ways Derrida’s theories of gifts and ghosts can add to anthropological studies of Southeast Asian communities while also helping to recover philosophical and ethical components of Theravada practices.
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Derrida always stressed the importance of his engagement with Heidegger and often returned throughout his life to different aspects of Heidegger’s thought. With the recent publication of his 1964-65 course, Heidegger: The Question of Being and History greater insight is now possible into the exact terms of Derrida’s early engagement with Heidegger and the significance he would accord it in the major works of 1967 and beyond. With the reception of this text just beginning, many lines of interpretation are being unfolded. However, one aspect not yet addressed in this early reception which will be crucial for approaching and orienting this work is the theme of auto-affection. The concept of auto-affection is important for assessing Derrida’s Heidegger course for two reasons. Firstly, Derrida understands auto-affection to be Heidegger’s most radical figuration of temporality in the period of Being and Time. Secondly, tracing Derrida’s early focus on auto-affection in Heidegger can provide an important context for understanding the initial development of what would become a prominent theme in Derrida’s own work. My argument in this paper is structured in three sections. In the first, I give a brief introduction to Derrida’s course. I then present the theme of auto-affection in this course and demonstrate its central importance. In conclusion, I show how Derrida’s treatment of this theme in the context of his early Heidegger engagement can be seen to look forward to his employment of auto-affection in Speech and Phenomena.
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Cet article propose une reflexion sur la protection des capacites au travail a partir de Martha Nussbaum. Sa visee est de penser les conditions institutionnelles de l’acces aux capacites, dans le cadre du travail, en mettant en evidence les points de tension entre l’approche des capacites et d’autres approches liberales, contractualiste ou utilitariste, qui structurent l’organisation du travail dans la societe de marche. Liberale d’un point de vue politique dans la lignee d’Emmanuel Kant, tout en s’interessant comme Aristote et a Karl Marx a la question des seuils et des libertes substantielles (et pas seulement formelles), Nussbaum permet de souligner dans le meme temps les tensions qui traversent le travail contemporain et les conditions d’un developpement humain au travail a partir d’une liste de capacites centrales et d’un seuil d’acces aux ressources necessaires pour les mettre en œuvre. L’article s’appuie sur cette approche des capacites et la theorie de la justice de Nussbaum pour analyser les limites du droit, souligner les logiques institutionnelles qui conditionnent l’acces aux capacites au travail, et de distinguer les responsabilites collectives vis-a-vis du developpement humain au travail.
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Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object has been framed primarily as a contribution to object oriented metaphysics. In this article, I shall explicate and defend four claims that bring it closer to the modern critical tradition: 1) that Garcia’s Form and Object can be read, profitably, within the tradition of reflection upon the nature of possessions, self-possession and possessiveness; 2) that to read the book in this way is to see Garcia as the French heir to C. B. McPherson although it will be argued that what this amounts to is that while McPherson was the anti-Locke, so to speak, Garcia is the anti-Rousseau; 3) that this framing has significant consequences for our reception of Form and Object in that it can be understood as a book that not only marks a moment in debates surrounding speculative realism and object oriented ontology but that it also, and primarily, marks an important moment in debates about the encroachment of things and the culture of possession that, in part, defines modernity; 4) that there is a novel ontological position within Form and Object, one that is neither relational nor individualist, that presents a challenging account of ‘the chance and the price’ of living after possession and how to overcome the deleterious effects of contemporary consumer societies.
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A review of Drew Dalton, The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute (London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), pp. 154.
Drew Dalton评论,《抵抗的伦理:绝对的暴政》(The Ethics of Resistance:Tyranny of The Absolute)(英国伦敦:Bloomsbury Academic,2018),第154页。
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A translation of a dialogue between Evelyne Grossman and Jacob Rogozinski on Artaud, Deleuze, and the status of the ego.
伊芙琳·格罗斯曼与雅各布·罗戈津斯基关于阿尔托、德勒兹和自我地位的对话翻译。
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