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The Dynamic State of Being in Love
Get PDFTo speak of the dynamic state of being in love with God pertains to the stage of meaning when the world of interiority has been made the explicit ground of the worlds of theory and of common sense
The Heuristic Notions of Space and Time
Get PDFFor a variety of reasons attention is now directed to the notions of space and time. Not only are these notions puzzling and so interesting, but they throw considerable light on the precise nature of abstraction, they provide a concrete and familiar context for the foregoing analyses of empirical science, and they form a natural bridge over which we may advance from our examination of science to an examination of common sense
The Notion of a Thing
Get PDFNow the notion of a thing is grounded in an insight that grasps, not relations between data, but a unity, identity, whole in data; and this unity is grasped, not by considering data from any abstractive viewpoint, but by taking them in their concrete individuality and in the totality of their aspects. For if the reader will turn his mind to any object he names a thing, he will find that object to be a unity to which belongs every aspect of every datum within the unity. Thus, the dog Fido is a unity, and to Fido is ascribed a totality of data whether of color or shape, sound or odor, feeling or movement. Moreover, from this grasp of unity in a concrete totality of data there follow the various characteristics of things
A Positioning
Get PDFRather than getting into the spread of components in my own positioning, I want to pick up on a point made by Phil McShane in a communication sent Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM to: ‘lonergan_l @skipperweb.org’—re : positioning in philosophy and economics.But before I pick up on it, I wish to relate McShane’s point both to this series of seminars and also to my own, ongoing work. Again, I would like to establish these relationships in such a way that they bring out: first, the legitimacy of the topic of dialectic being set forth in this fourth of our seminars; and secondly, how McShane’s point contributes to our common drive to understand the condensed invitation on page 250[235] of Method in Theology to participate aptly in the deeply novel method of dialectic collaboration
Review of Philip McShane, Interpretation from A to Z
Get PDFA subtitle for this book could have read “A Revolution Betrayed.” The author begins by criticizing conventional ways of reading and interpreting the works of Bernard Lonergan, ways that remain at the level of common-sense meanings. However, Lonergan’s purpose in Chapter 17, Section 3 of Insight and in Chapter 7 of Method in Theology was to start a revolution in ways of reading and interpreting. Why have his followers failed to make the radical changes he proposed? No doubt academic inertia has played a role. The changes are difficult to make, remote from inherited pre-scientific practices, and perhaps too futuristic for those settled into familiar scholarly routines
The Ontological Structure of the Hermeneutic Circle
Get PDFIn his recent review of a book by Fred Lawrence, Jeremy Wilkins remarked that the author left undeveloped his claim that Lonergan’s functional specialties “thematize the ontological structure of the hermeneutic circle.” Why, he asked, did the author offer no further commentary on his claim? This essay is our experiment in filling in some of what was left unstated. It is also another exercise in doing the three objectifications Lonergan included as final steps in the fourth functional specialty of dialectic
(Dis)orienting Hysteria: Reading Perception, Pain, and Techno Music as Mad Materialist Affect
No full textThis article engages a Mad methodology to identify hysteria as a critical site of Mad engagement and to attend to the potentialities and incomprehensibilities at the intersection of chronic vulvar pain and techno music. Beginning with an encounter between pain and sound, I explore the potential of inter-sensory experiences as a form of micropolitical resistance to perception as disciplined. By deploying a diffractive approach to reading affect theorizing, I merge literature related to madness, pain, sound, and the coloniality of knowledge production to develop a nuanced articulation of Mad materialist affect. In doing so, I perform a conceptual intervention that confronts the subversive effects of disciplinary boundaries and makes visible the relational histories and present encounters that discursively and materially constitute chronic vulvar pain and techno music. I offer an analytic that attends to hysteria as a colonial apparatus while simultaneously exploring the re- signification of hysteria as a generative state of (dis)orientation
Decolonial Futurities in Social Work Education: Epistemological, Relational, and Institutional Pathways
No full textThis editorial introduces the first part of the two-part special issue Reckoning and Reconciliation: Decolonizing Social Work Education
