tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72667285159361997602012-02-16T08:31:30.377-08:00vaguely philosophical half thoughts from long bus journeys ...Tychonoreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266728515936199760.post-9461839489853944132008-11-02T11:45:00.000-08:002008-11-02T11:57:45.532-08:00

For Hegel the immediate nature of experience, which was still to be categorized if we follow the Kantian system, was something already mediated. “He criticizes immediacy in principle and not merely as being atomistic and mechanical; immediacy itself always already contains something other than itself – subjectivity – without which it would not be 'given' at all, and by that token it is already

Tychonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266728515936199760.post-50746077682279281302008-08-11T13:15:00.000-07:002008-08-11T13:26:47.111-07:00

Sartre's position would hold that meaning-giving is dependant on the subject, that the freedom of the relevant human is what deems a boulder or cliff too hard to climb. Merleau-Ponty's position is that there are spontaneous evaluations created by our relationship to the world around us; that we are pyschological/physical entities means that our relationship to the world is one of

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Currently sick and blown away by trailer for watchmen film, so instead of posting what I want I'm using this blog to share link to some files which may be of interest.no.1;http://www.mediafire.com/?z7zzy9w0sjzno.2;http://www.mediafire.com/?dmdwedtjjurno.3;http://www.mediafire.com/?lmk1zdxd1dz more to follow in comments.

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So what is this blog about?Well it is mainly a way to guilt myself into continuing work on some of the ideas which I have had over the past 4 years while I venture, financially not geographically, outside the university. The main thing I want to expose are 'imagined bodies'. The idea being worked towards then is a concept which understand the body within the dialectical shift of absence and

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Sartre's discussion of Desire is situated within his attempt to explicate the modes of being of a subject. “It is as body-in-situation that I apprehend the Other's transcendence transcended, and it is as body-in-situation that I experience myself in my alienation for the Other's benefit” The argument is based on the previous conclusions reached about freedom and consciousness and it can be seen

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The Song of Songs opens with the lines “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.” A line which instantly brings into question the idea of 'absence' and 'presence'. Whose mouth could Solomon kiss with if not his own? On one interpretation we can claim that the phrasing draws us immediately to an invocation of the divine, the kiss that is more than a kiss, the song that is more than a song,

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