Idiom Inventing Writing Theory FUP: Intoxication by Jean-Luc Nancy in DJV, DOC, MOBI
9780823267736 0823267733 From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are alsohaunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences.For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualities--reason and passion, mind and body,rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros. Taking its point of departure from Baudelaire's categorical imperative to understand modernity - "be drunk always" - Nancy's little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary "banquet" addresses a range of related themes, including therole of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred "spirits" involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciation - to the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute.Affecting both mind and body, Nancy's subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius - I am, I exist - drunk., From PlatoGs Symposium to HegelGs truth as a GBacchanalian revel,G from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophyGs sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualitiesGreason and passion, mind and body, rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros. Taking its point of departure from BaudelaireGs categorical imperative to understand modernityGGbe drunk alwaysGGNancyGs little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary GbanquetG addresses a range of related themes, including the role of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred GspiritsG involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciationGto the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute. Affecting both mind and body, NancyGs subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebriusGI am, I existGdrunk., From PlatoGÇÖs Symposium to HegelGÇÖs truth as a GÇ£Bacchanalian revel,GÇ¥ from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophyGÇÖs sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualitiesGÇöreason and passion, mind and body, rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros. Taking its point of departure from BaudelaireGÇÖs categorical imperative to understand modernityGÇöGÇ£be drunk alwaysGÇ¥GÇöNancyGÇÖs little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary GÇ£banquetGÇ¥ addresses a range of related themes, including the role of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred GÇ£spiritsGÇ¥ involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciationGÇöto the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute. Affecting both mind and body, NancyGÇÖs subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebriusGÇöI am, I existGÇödrunk., This charming essay, originally a talk given in a vineyard in France, is in the line of such books as Listening and The Fall of Sleep, in which Nancy develops a phenomenologically based account of ordinary experiences. His topic here is intoxication--though ivresse also means "exhilaration" in French.
9780823267736 0823267733 From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are alsohaunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences.For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualities--reason and passion, mind and body,rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros. Taking its point of departure from Baudelaire's categorical imperative to understand modernity - "be drunk always" - Nancy's little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary "banquet" addresses a range of related themes, including therole of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred "spirits" involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciation - to the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute.Affecting both mind and body, Nancy's subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius - I am, I exist - drunk., From PlatoGs Symposium to HegelGs truth as a GBacchanalian revel,G from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophyGs sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualitiesGreason and passion, mind and body, rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros. Taking its point of departure from BaudelaireGs categorical imperative to understand modernityGGbe drunk alwaysGGNancyGs little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary GbanquetG addresses a range of related themes, including the role of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred GspiritsG involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciationGto the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute. Affecting both mind and body, NancyGs subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebriusGI am, I existGdrunk., From PlatoGÇÖs Symposium to HegelGÇÖs truth as a GÇ£Bacchanalian revel,GÇ¥ from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophyGÇÖs sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualitiesGÇöreason and passion, mind and body, rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros. Taking its point of departure from BaudelaireGÇÖs categorical imperative to understand modernityGÇöGÇ£be drunk alwaysGÇ¥GÇöNancyGÇÖs little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary GÇ£banquetGÇ¥ addresses a range of related themes, including the role of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred GÇ£spiritsGÇ¥ involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciationGÇöto the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute. Affecting both mind and body, NancyGÇÖs subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebriusGÇöI am, I existGÇödrunk., This charming essay, originally a talk given in a vineyard in France, is in the line of such books as Listening and The Fall of Sleep, in which Nancy develops a phenomenologically based account of ordinary experiences. His topic here is intoxication--though ivresse also means "exhilaration" in French.