Suchergebnisse

This book challenges the standard view that modern hermeneutics begins with Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher, arguing instead that it is the dialectic of reflective and teleological reason in Kants Critique of Judgment that provides the actual proto-hermeneutic foundation. It is revolutionary in doing so by replacing interpretive truth claims by the more appropriate claim of rendering opaque contexts intelligible. Taking Gadamers comprehensive analysis of hermeneutics in Truth and Method (1960) as its point of departure, the book turns to Kants Critiques, reviewing his major concepts as a coherent system in relation to his sensus communis. At the heart of the book is the interaction between reflective, bottom-up search and teleological, top-down interpretative projection as provided in Part II of the third Critique. This text contends that Kants broad definition of nature invites the liberation of the reflective-teleological judgment from its biological exemplifications and so permits us to establish its generalised status as a path-breaking, methodological tool. Kants dialectic of reflective search and meaning bestowing, stipulated teleology is asserted to anticipate a series of motifs commonly associated with hermeneutics. Figures covered include Dilthey, Husserl, Ingarden, Heidegger, Gadamer, Apel, Habermas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze, Vattimo, Nancy and Caputo. Their collective contributions to interpretation allow for a review of the evolution of hermeneutics from the perspective of the Kantian critique of the limitations of human cognition. The book is written for the informed, general reader, but will likewise appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

Introduction: Gadamer – Benchmark of Hermeneutics -- The Chiastic Structure of Kant's Critical Concepts -- Kant's Proto-Hermeneutics -- Kant's Conception of Natural Language -- Ast, Schleiermacher, Dilthey: Hermeneutics as Inductive Reconstruction -- Husserl and Ingarden: Hermeneutic Intentionality -- Heidegger: Being and the Hermeneutics of Pro-jection -- Ricoeur: Hermeneutics as Self-Recognition -- Apel and Habermas: Emancipatory Hermeneutics -- Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard: Decentred Hermeneutics -- Vattimo, Nancy, Caputo: Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Nihilism -- Conclusion: Hermeneutics of the Absolute.

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Part I: Two Husserlian Points of Departure -- 1. Introduction : Language as Intersubjective Intentionality -- 2. Husserl's Philosophy of Language and Its Revisions -- 3. Language as Eidetic Reduction : The Fuzzy Eidos -- Part II: Intersubjective Intentionality in Language -- 4. Introjective Reciprocity : Meaning as Communal Cognitive Event -- 5. From Husserl's Tone to Implicit Deixis -- 6. From Meaning Sufficiency to Communal Control -- 7. A Phenomenological Re-definition of Linguistic Meaning -- Part III: Implications for the Theorization of Language -- 8. Why Language Is Not Simply a Symbolic System -- 9. Displacement, Mental Time Travel, and Protosyntax -- 10. Conclusion : The Social Mode of Being of Language -- Index.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The corporeal turn -- The corporeal turn -- Chapter 2: There is no meaning in language -- Chapter 3: Meaning as quasi-perceptual -- The other of language -- The body and quasi-perceptual grasp -- Mental images in cognitive science -- Perceptual readings -- The as-structure of meaning -- Chapter 4: The body in deixis and reference -- Implicit deixis -- Reference -- Reference and the body -- Chapter 5: Sign rapport: meaning as intersemiotic -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Sign conflict: meaning as heterosemiotic -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The disembodiment of the signifier -- Chapter 8: The corporeality of the signified -- Chapter 9: Social traces in abstract expressions -- Chapter 10: The role of the community -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Sufficient semiosis -- Chapter 12: Semantic assumptions -- Chapter 13: Meaning, metaphysics and representation -- Afterword: Corporeal semantics and the obsolete body -- Bibliography -- Index.

This essay asks how we can explain why, in contrast with Western responses, a large number of Chinese citizens from all walks of life appear to have little sympathy with the spate of recent cases of dissidents having fallen foul of government regulations pertaining to public political criticism. The answer proposed in the essay is that there are cultural obstacles to the emergence of political dialogue in China beyond the well-canvassed official strictures on political critique. The essay addresses two of these obstacles under the headings of the Confucian meta-rule of obedience and normative nominalism, argued to be characteristic of traditional Chinese conceptions of language. The reasons why these two cultural features are able to contribute so effectively to the retardation of political dialogicity in China, this essay claims, are to be sought in their deep roots in Chinese thought and the political unconscious of China to this day.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Marxism and Dualism in Deleuze -- The Memory of Resistance -- Deleuze and Materialism: One or Several Matters? -- Art and Territory -- Deleuze and Cultural Studies -- Immanence and Transcendence in the Genesis of Form -- Comment peut-on etre deleuzien? Pursuing a Two-Fold Thought -- Marx and Poststructuralist Philosophies of Difference -- Straining to Hear (Deleuze) -- Deleuze and the Body: Eluding Kafka's "Little Death Sentence" -- Deleuze and the Three Powers of Literature and Philosophy: To Demystify, to Experiment, to Create -- Overdetermined Oedipus: Mommy, Daddy, and Me as Desiring-Machine -- Deleuze's Philosophy of the Concrete -- From Multiplicities to Folds: On Style and Form in Deleuze -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Deleuze and New Technology -- CONTROL -- Chapter 1 Deleuze and Machines: A Politics of Technology? -- Chapter 2 Of Rhizomes, Smooth Space, War Machines and New Media -- Chapter 3 Deleuze's Objectile: From Discipline to Modulation -- Chapter 4 How to Surf: Technologies at Work in the Societies of Control -- Chapter 5 Chemical-Control™®: From the Cane to the Pill -- Chapter 6 Politics in the Age of Control -- BECOMING -- Chapter 7 Smash the Strata! A Programme for Techno-Political ®evolution -- Chapter 8 Deleuze and the Internet -- Chapter 9 Swarming: Number versus Animal? -- Chapter 10 The Body Without Organs and Internet Gaming Addiction -- Chapter 11 Deleuze's Concept in the Information- Control Continuum -- Chapter 12 Illusionary Perception and Cinema: Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience -- Chapter 13 Surface Folds: The Archival Events of New Medialised Art -- Afterword -- Notes on Contributors -- Index