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October 3, 2023
Georges van den Abbeele
This chapter explicates Nancy’s radical and foundational rereading of Descartes, first in the 1978 monograph, Ego sum, then over the course of the rest of Nancy’s work. Nancy reads Descartes’s cogito as singularly interrupted, or “iterative.” He urges us to grasp the foundational statement, ego sum, ego existo, as necessarily iterative, as having to be repeated in its singularity, “each time.”...
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June 7, 2022
Neal Deroo
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The book argues that expressivity is the key to understanding experience and phenomenology. Experience is the constant tying together of knowing, being, and doing in a way that is simultaneously transcendental and empirical, and expressivity names the process by which this tying happens, and so it functions as the logic—the ‘how’—of experience itself. This logic is inherently political, insofar...
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September 1, 2016
Holly Hillgardner
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Holly Hillgardner develops a relational notion of the desiring self by reading the thirteenth-century Christian beguine Hadewijch in light of the sixteenth-century Vaisnava poet-saint Mirabai. Christian mysticism has often been read as moments of blissful union interspersed with long periods of painful absence, with union celebrated as the goal of the spiritual life. Mirabai, however,...
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May 2, 2011
Richard Kearney, Kascha Semonovitch
This chapter deals with different kinds of experiences that pertain to corporeality. It distinguishes between “embodied experience” and “incarnate experience” where the latter includes visitations of the vertical or transcendent. This distinction between embodied and incarnate experience is not to advocate any kind of dualism; rather, it is an attempt to be attentive to modes of givenness that...
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November 15, 2006
Lothar Schäfer
This chapter examines Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's view on the emergence of consciousness in biological evolution and quantum reality. There are three aspects of physical reality that provide an important framework for the vision of Teilhard de Chardin, which had no basis in the outgoing mechanistic-materialistic worldview of the science of his time. These aspects of physical reality include...