[MD] continental and analytic philosophy

[MarshaV]

Here is what Derrida said in the documentary (3 minutes):  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya46wfeWqJk  






On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:42 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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