[MD] continental and analytic philosophy

[MarshaV]

Hi Matt.

Speaking of Derrida, I watched a documentary about him with interviews.  He 
mentioned the story of Narcissus and Echo.  It was a fascinating explanation, 
but all too short for the camera.  Do you know if he includes a fuller explanation 
of his views of the self as related to the Narcissus and Echo myth in any of his books?  


Marsha



On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Matt Kundert wrote:

> 
> Hey gav,
> 
> The only downside with some of the rhetoric produced by some (usually French) Continental philosophers is the misleading connotations produced by the march of meanings of words.  For instance, "fiction"--while it punches up the antithesis to realist/Platonic talk about an immutable "found" world (talk Foucault and Derrida were apt to use, too), I think at a certain point it loses its currency: I didn't "make up" the tiger that's eating me.
> 
> But, going back to the Greek term poiesis, making, does punch up something right about the kind of consciousness peculiar to homo sapien, reflected in Nietzsche's slogan that truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms.
> 
> Matt
> 
>> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 02:28:16 -0800
>> From: gav_gc at yahoo.com.au
>> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>> Subject: [MD] continental and analytic philosophy
>> 
>> been thinking about the differing approaches to philosophy that these traditions use...seems v relevant to what's going on here - think the disputes arising here illuminate an epistemological divide along these lines.
>> 
>> been reading about deleuze and getting a lot out of him:
>> 
>> '[deleuze] argue that the human subject and its stable outside world was a fiction produced within the flow of experience - "the world (continuity and distinction) is an outright fiction of the imagination"'
>> 
>> 
>> perfect correlation...
>> 
>> the word 'fiction' here is key
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