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Notes pour une phénoménologie de la naissance: En dialogue avec Claude Romano
Get PDFCet article cherche à discuter certaines implications de la phénoménologie événémentiale de Romano afin d\u27en mésurer la fécondité pour la question - largement négligée par notre tradition philosophique - de la naissance. A travers la critique de la notion de "conscience interne du temps" proposée par Husserl dans les Leçons de 1905 et les Manuscrits de Bernau de 1918-19, Romano met au point sa conception de l\u27événement en tant que origine intemporelle de toute temporalité mondaine. La dernière partie de cet article cherche justement à interpréter la naissance comme phénomène événementiel d\u27ouverture originaire de toute possibilité future pour l\u27advenant.Cet article cherche à discuter certaines implications de la phénoménologie événémentiale de Romano afin d\u27en mésurer la fécondité pour la question - largement négligée par notre tradition philosophique - de la naissance. A travers la critique de la notion de "conscience interne du temps" proposée par Husserl dans les Leçons de 1905 et les Manuscrits de Bernau de 1918-19, Romano met au point sa conception de l\u27événement en tant que origine intemporelle de toute temporalité mondaine. La dernière partie de cet article cherche justement à interpréter la naissance comme phénomène événementiel d\u27ouverture originaire de toute possibilité future pour l\u27advenant
Hume\u27s Correlationism: On Meillassoux, Necessity and Belief
Get PDFThe article argues that Meillassoux\u27s \u27After Finitude\u27 underestimates the nature and profundity of Hume\u27s sceptical challenge; it neglects the fact that Hume\u27s scepticism concerns final causes (and agrees fundamentally with Bacon and Descartes in this respect), and that in Hume even the operations of reason do not furnish entirely a priori knowledge. We contend that Hume himself institutes a form of correlationism (which in part showed Kant the way to counter the sceptical challenge via transcendental idealism), and sought not merely to abolish the \u27principle of sufficient reason\u27 but to salvage it in a weak form, in turning his attention to the grounds for our beliefs in necessity. We argue further that the \u27mathematizability\u27 of properties is not a sufficient criterion to yield realist, non-correlational knowledge, or to demonstrate the \u27irremediable realism\u27 of the \u27ancestral\u27 statement. Finally, we contend that Meillassoux himself relies on a certain \u27Kantian moment\u27 which exempts the reasoning subject from otherwise \u27omnipotent\u27 chaos, and that ultimately the \u27speculative materialist\u27 position remains exposed to the original Humean sceptical challenge.
Book Review: Tamsin Jones, A Genealogy of Marion\u27s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness
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Julia Kristeva\u27s Voyage in the Thérèsian Continent: The Malady of Love and the Enigma of an Incarnated, Shareable, Smiling Imaginary
Get PDFDrawing on Julia Kristeva\u27s amorous dialogue with Therese in Therese, mon amour, her third volume on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis (La haine et le pardon), and Cet incroyable besoin de croire, my aim in this essay is to unpack Kristeva\u27s theory of sublimation which, I suggest, Therese helps her elaborate, enrich and complicate. In particular, I focus on Kristeva\u27s foregrounding of the mediating role of language in the sublimatory process and her rethinking of the experience and stakes of sublimation in light of what has been discussed as the central problematic of the baroque: namely, the blurring of the distinction between appearance and reality and the uninhibited celebration of illusion. As I demonstrate, this problematic and Therese\u27s unique response to it are most important for Kristeva since they enable her to raise questions which carry her beyond her previous treatments of sublimation. These questions relate to the amorous source of the imaginary; the dynamic established between idealization and sublimation; the dangers of an unbridled imaginary; the uncomfortable residue of matter and the body; the dialectic between finitude and infinity, unity and multiplicity
Kenosis, Economy, Inscription
Get PDFPart of a roundtable on Julia Kristeva\u27s The Severed Head: Chapters Five and Six of Julia Kristeva’s The Severed Hea
On Kristeva\u27s Fiction
Get PDFAn essay about the reception of Kristeva\u27s fiction so far in the popular press and in academic journals, as well as an inquiry into its use and value as a psychoanalytic antidote
Julia Kristeva’s The Severed Head
Get PDFThis paper was presented as part of a roundtable on Kristeva’s The Severed Head at the inaugural meeting of the Kristeva Circle on October 13, 2012
Keeping it Intimate: A Meditation on the Power of Horror
Get PDFThe paper is a reading of Julia Kristeva, The Severed Head. It first interprets a dual historical element in Kristeva\u27s text on "capital visions," her selection of exemplars of the artistic representation of severed heads. On the one hand, there are the aesthetic trajectories themselves, from skull art to artistic modernism. On the other hand, there is an implicit history of "horror" in psychoanalysis in this text, going from Freud through Lacan to Kristeva. The paper then indicates the tone of possibility and invitation that inhabits Kristeva’s treatment of horror in capital visions, which suggests that she does not divide aesthetics off from ethics. Finally, I underline the note of humor that enters into the psychoanalytic and aesthetic treatment of horror, once Kristeva has linked it to the feminine
Review Essay: Daniel Morgan, Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema
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Narrative Ethics and Vulnerability: Kristeva and Ricoeur on Interdependence
Get PDFThe character and extent of disabilities, especially cognitive disability, have posed significance problems for existing moral theories. Certain philosophers have even questioned the moral personhood of people with disabilities and have argued that people with profound cognitive impairments should not be granted the same moral status as those who are cognitively able-bodied. This paper proposes an alternative understanding of moral personhood as relational rather than individuated. This relational moral personhood finds its foundation in the clinical practice and psychoanalysis of Julia Kristeva and the hermeneutic narrative identity of Paul Ricoeur. One consequence of this relational personhood is a new understanding of moral status through narrative co-authorship rather than intellectual or social capacity. Another consequence is a refiguration of narrative identity as narrative interdependence.