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- Fareld, Victoria, 1973
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Charles Taylor's Identity Holism: Romantic Expressivism as Epigenetic Self-Realization
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In: Telos. - 0090-6514. ; :141
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the expressivist core of Charles Taylor’s conception of identity, and argues that his recognition politics cannot be fully understood and properly criticized without an account of the historical roots of the expressivism underpinning it. By seeing Taylor’s conception of identity in the light of the eighteenth-century theory of epigenesis, according to which evolution is an unpredictable and successive self-generation, which became vital elements in German Idealism and crucial components in the idea of Bildung, I show why Taylor’s idea of identity formation is resistant to much of contemporary critique of essentialism, which tends to see essence as a preformed inner unit that is to be given an outer expression. I suggest that a more productive way of criticizing Taylor’s conception of identity is to focus on what I call his identity holism, which I locate in the heart of his expressivist philosophy. By making recognition into a restoring movement, aiming at intersubjectively unifying the self with itself, I argue that Taylor’s identity holism ends up reproducing the very notion of individual autonomy it purports to undermine, and that it moreover transforms the Hegelian double movement of mutual recognition into a commodity logic of equal exchange, a liberal equality formula, according to which individuals are recognized by having their identities rightly affirmed.
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- Fareld, Victoria, 1973
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Contexts in Flux: Textual Concerns for the Historian of Ideas
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In: Ideas in History: The Nordic Society for the History of Ideas. - 1890-1832. ; 3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article deals with the methodological question of contextualization in the field of history of ideas. By discussing the notion of beginning, and by arguing for an understanding of beginning as a construction made in retrospect – as that which only in the end of a process appears as the beginning – the author questions the conventional view on historical contextualization as primarily a method of arranging a chronological narrative. It is suggested that the notion of backward reading could account for a broader practice of contextualization, as it opens up a range of possible contextual arrangements in the writing of history of ideas. By stressing the two meanings of the word history (the past, that which is forever gone, and the incessantly changing narrative representations of the past, that which in a certain sense always remains to come), as inseparably intertwined in a dialectics of presence and absence, recalling and forgetting, it is argued for the importance of adopting a double perspective: There is no present independent of the past. But there is no past independent of the present. The historian of ideas, therefore, the author claims, has a role to play just as urgent when it comes to reflect upon the past from today’s horizon, as to analyze the present through an examination of the past. The novel Vivre me tue (Life kills me) written by the French author Paul Smaïl, serves to illustrate the difficulty in deciding the contextual beginning and ending of a text, and the need, therefore, of exploring a methodological concept of temporality where past, present and future are constitutively interrelated – where the beginning can appear in the end, just as the end can appear as a new beginning.
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- Fareld, Victoria
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Entangled Memories of Violence : Jean Améry and Frantz Fanon
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In: Memory Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1750-6980 .- 1750-6999. ; 14:1, s. 58-67
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article I discuss the entangled memories of the Holocaust and the anticolonial struggles in Western Europe in the 1960s by relating the writings of Jean Améry and Frantz Fanon. My aim is to show how Améry’s retrospective narrative of his lived experience in the Nazi camp was formed by his reading of Fanon’s experiences of colonialism, and how Fanon’s narrative of the colonial trauma was transposed and translated into Améry’s public testimony as a Holocaust survivor. The article argues that Améry’s individual memories found a certain mediated cultural form and narrative frame in the contemporaneous situation of decolonisation. The multilayered weave of fascist and colonial violence constituting Améry’s testimony highlights questions of memory’s multidirectionality and casts new light on how cultural memorial forms are shaped and shared.
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- Fareld, Victoria, 1973-
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Framing the Polychronic Present
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In: Historical Understanding. - London : Bloomsbury Academic. - 9781350168619 ; , s. 25-34
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- Fareld, Victoria
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Hegel and Exposure
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In: Translating Hegel. - Huddinge : Södertörn University. - 9789186069568 ; , s. 131-145
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- An attempt to explore in which ways Hegel’s philosophy could be actualized as a key element in a political philosophy which takes its point of departure, not in reason, sociality or autonomy but in exposure, vulnerability, and dependence.
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- Fareld, Victoria, 1973
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History and Mourning
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In: Rethinking time: Essays on historical consciousness, memory, and representation. - Huddinge : Södertörns högskola. ; , s. 235-244
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