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- Cederberg, Carl, 1973-
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Resaying the Human : Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this reading a notion of the human is developed through an engagement with the work of French philosopher Emanuel Levinas. The argument is that, with the help of Levinas, it is possible for the idea of the human to be understood anew, for the notion to be ‘resaid’. This resaying of the human is performed in a critical appropriation of the philosophical tradition: Levinas’s work is shown not to be a new variation of the complacent ideology of humanism; the idea of the human is instead interpreted to be the bearer of the very movement of critique. This movement is articulated in terms of a transcendence of a discursive ‘economy of violence’. Critique does not establish a permanent position outside of violence, but is a movement that must constantly be renewed.Here Levinas is offered as a modern thinker of particular relevance for contemporary discussions surrounding the nature both of the political and of Human Rights. In addition one finds a systematic analysis of the major works of Levinas, unraveling how a notion of the human develops from within his philosophy.Levinas’s thought is placed alongside philosophical figures of his time, such as Heidegger, Sartre, Bataille, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault and Derrida, as well as more recent political thinkers, for example, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière.
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- Lane, Tora, 1976-
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Rendering the Sublime : A Reading of Marina Tsvetaeva's Fairy-Tale Poem The Swain
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present study is a reading of the folkloric fairy-tale poem The Swain (Mólodets) (1924) by the Russian Modernist poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941).The poem represents a high point in Tsvetaeva’s experiments with Russian folk art, and it is thoroughly folkloric in its theme, forms of writing and poetic language. At the same time, the poem can be linked to the attraction to folk art as a locus of the Sublime in literary tradition, which originates in German Romanticism, and finds its echoes in Russian Modernism. This study seeks to show that Tsvetaeva’s exploration of folk art in the poem was inspired by a quandary linked to the Sublime; namely the paradoxical question how to present in art what is too great to be represented.The poem is read as an image and an illustration of the poet’s understanding of the means of presenting the unrepresentable. Tsvetaeva renders the tale as an uncanny story about a horrifying elemental force. She seeks to avoid representation by bringing out the story in a poetic performance, which has the character of a lyrical drama, where the voices of the characters speak and sing in a direct manner. Within the canvas of the folkloric performance, the poet explores poetic language to render the Sublime. She experiments with secondary meanings in order to bring out a language, which at the same time is “secret” and “literal”, and where the element can be made present in its sublimity.
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- Larsson, Andreas Hiroui, et al.
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Lethe : On Forgetfulness as a Guiding Principle in Artistic Processes
- 2024
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the artistic research project Lethe, musicians and researchers Andreas Hiroui Larsson [percussion], Johan Jutterström [saxophone], and Anna Lindal [violin], investigated forgetfulness as a method and guiding principle for an artistic process, by using the ancient Greek mythological river Lethe as their point of departure. The Lethe was considered to possess the property of forgetfulness, and the research group met—metaphorically—over the course of three years, at its riverbanks. The name Lethe means concealment, and is related to the Greek word for truth: alētheia (that contains the word lēthē), which literally means un-concealment. As such, forgetfulness may both cause concealment and be part of constructing un-concealment. From their campsite at the riverbank of the Lethe, the research group intended to research forgetfulness in relation to their respective personal artistic practices, within the field of western art and improvised music. They also attempted at constructing coherent theoretical standpoints, to help them, and possibly others, navigate the river’s currents and—in the end—present an example of what their research could lead to artistically and discursively. The Roman poet Virgil wrote in his epic poem Aeneid that it is only after we have had our memory erased by the Lethe that we can become reborn. What are we willing to forget when we meet at the riverbanks of the Lethe, and gaze at the waters that can wash away our previous musical lives?
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- Nancy, Jean-Luc, et al.
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History, improvised : A short dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
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Ingår i: Philosophy today (Celina). - : Philosophy Documentation Center. - 0031-8256 .- 2329-8596. ; 60:4, s. 827-838
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this text, a dialogue about the difficult task of seizing the sense of history today is presented. The point of departure is the difficulty of the times to begin and the necessity to rethink the difference between historiography and historicity, and further between events, the event and the advent. The dialogue proposes to revisit the meaning of beginning from out of the experience of improvisation and to reflect upon the possibility of developing improvisation as a sense of history.
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Phenomenology of Eros
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Eros manifests itself in multiple ways: as tragic eros and philosophical eros, as love, sexuality, seduction, care, desire, and friendship. Eros both defines us as beings and dislocates our existence. It breaks down our certitudes about selfhood and otherness, familiarity and strangeness. This volume gathers together contributions toward a phenomenological understanding of eros. The first part examines eros in relation to ancient philosophy and religion, the second part examines eros in relation to modern phenomenology. The analyses presented show how the question of eros brings us to the core of philosophy. Questions of time, desire, embodiment, intersubjectivity, and perception are all implicated in the phenomenology of eros.
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- Rat, Ramona
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Un-common Sociality : Thinking Sociality with Levinas
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present investigation develops the notion of sociality based on Emmanuel Levinas’s thought, and proposes an understanding of sociality that resists becoming a common foundation: an un-common sociality which interrupts the reciprocal shared common, and thereby, paradoxically, makes it possible. By engaging in the larger debate on community, this work gives voice to Levinas on the question of community without a common ground, a topic and a debate where he has previously been underestimated. In this way, the aim is to reveal new directions opened up by Levinas’s philosophy in order to think an un-common sociality.
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