Language in Ernst Bloch'sspeculative materialism.Nathaniel J. P. Barron -2023 - Boston: Brill.detailsNathaniel J.P. Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Bloch's contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Bloch's ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Bloch's utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinov's insights into language through Bloch's categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov by offering an understanding of the social materiality of language which is more (...) useful for challenging fascist forms of utterance. (shrink)
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Educational Marketisation and the Head’s Psychological Well–Being: ASpeculative Conceptualisation.Izhar Oplatka,Nick Foskett &Jane Hemsley–Brown -2002 -British Journal of Educational Studies 50 (4):419 - 441.detailsOne of the most important changes in the environment of schooling during the last decade has been the establishment of educational markets and inter-institutional competition which, in turn, has led to the development of a new management culture in schools. In the light of these developments, this paper draws together the research on heads' responses to marketisation and suggests theoretical hypotheses on the impact of its underlying features on their psychological well-being. Our argument is that the major features of educational (...) marketisation may promote the emergence of both the determinants of professional growth and self-renewal and of occupational stress and job burnout among headteachers. These determinants, in turn, lead to the appearance of two types of well-being among school heads. To support our hypothesis we refer to the work of others and empirical findings from various fields of study. (shrink)
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(1 other version)The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay onSpeculative Thought in the Ancient Near East.Henri Frankfort -1946 - Chicago,: The University of Chicago press. Edited by H. A. Groenewegen-Frankfort, John Albert Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen & William Andrew Irwin.detailsIntroduction: Myth and reality, by H. and H. A. Frankfort.--Egypt: The nature of the universe. The function of the state. The values of life. By J. A. Wilson.--Mesopotamia: The cosmos as a state. The function of the state. The good life. By Thorkild Jacobsen.--The Hebrews: God. Man. Man in the world. Nation, society, and politics. By W. A. Irwin. Conclusion: The emancipation of thought from myth, by H. and H. A. Frankfort.
The syntax of time: the phenomenology of time in Greek physics andspeculative logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander.Peter Manchester -2005 - Boston: Brill.detailsBridging from Husserl to Iamblichus, this book contributes phenomenological readings of Plotinus, Aristotle, Parmenides, and Heraclitus, in which prevalent misconceptions about the very identity of time in the phenomena of motion are corrected, and time's role in Greek philosophy recovered.
Knowledge Beyond Human Knowledge?: A Critique of Meillassoux’sSpeculative Materialism. 주재형 -2024 -Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosoph 100:1-38.details메이야수는 현대 철학의 주목받는 흐름인 실재론 운동에서 중심적이고도 독특한 자리를 차지한다. 그는 ‘상관주의’라는 명칭을 고안함으로써 다양한 실재론들을 반-상관주의로 아우를 수 있는 이론적 기초를 마련했다. 그러나 메이야수가 주장하는 사변적 유물론은 상관주의 내부에서 상관주의를 벗어나고자 한다는 점에서 다른 실재론들과 명확히 구별된다. 우리는 이 연구에서 메이야수가 자신의 주저 『유한성 이후』에서 전개한 사변적 유물론의 중심 논변이 과연 상관주의를 실제로 논박할 수 있는지를 비판적으로 검토할 것이다. 메이야수는 자신의 사변적 유물론이 상관주의가 성립하기 위한 필수적인 암묵적 전제라고 주장한다. 그러나 우리는 상관주의가 그러한 전제를 수용하지 않고서도 일관된 입장일 (...) 수 있음을 보여줄 것이다. 또한, 그의 논증을 있는 그대로 받아들일 경우 그의 입장은 수행적 모순을 범하지 않을 수 없다. 다음으로 우리는 메이야수가 상관주의의 난점을 보여주기 위해 고안한 원화석의 문제는 사실상 상관주의에게 심각한 위협이 되지 못한다는 점을 보여줄 것이다. 상관주의가 말하는 상관성은 선조적 진술을 문제 없이 수용할 수 있는 개방성으로 이해되어야 하기 때문이다. 마지막으로, 메이야수의 초-카오스 개념에 대한 검토를 통해서 우리는 그의 사변적 유물론이 사실상 절대적 무지의 존재론적 투사에 불과하다는 결론에 이를 것이다. (shrink)
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Deleuze and Whitehead: Transcendental empiricism andspeculative empiricism – event, prehension, contemplation, contraction, satisfaction. 이문교 -2019 -Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosoph 81:95-131.details본 논문은 형이상학의 구축이라는 관점에서 들뢰즈와 화이트헤드의 관계를 다룬다. 이들 두 철학자들 사이의 관계는 역사적이고 사실적인 관점에서 볼 때 들뢰즈가 『차이와 반복』이래로 화이트헤드를 참조하고 있으며 특히 『주름』에서 화이트헤드가 매우 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있다는 사실에서 확인된다. 무엇보다 두 형이상학자들 사이의 관계를 해명하는 것은 들뢰즈의 존재론 체계가 완성된 『차이와 반복』과 원숙한 시기의 화이트헤드의 형이상학적 체계가 잘 나타나 있는『과정과 실재』의 비교작업이 될 것이다. 이러한 비교연구를 위하여 우리는 특히 사건의 철학과 관련하여 들뢰즈의 화이트헤드 독해가 갖는 적합성과 한계를 살펴본 후, 화이트헤드의 파악 개념과 들뢰즈의 수동적 (...) 종합개념(첫 번째 수동적 종합: 응시, 수축, 만족)사이의 유사점과 차이점을 고찰하고 평가할 것이다. 만일 이 두 철학자들의 형이상학(존재론)에 어떤 심층의 연대가 존재한다고 한다면, 그들 모두 칸트의 초월론적 관념론을 넘어서고자 하는 그들의 방식에 있어서 공통적으로 지니는 유사한 철학적 지향점이 있다는 점일 것이며, 이는 경험론과 분리되지 않는 형이상학을 창조함으로써 수행된다고 할 수 있다. 그것들은 각각 초월론적 경험론과 사변적 경험론이다. (shrink)
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Defying the Facts: Justice and Being inSpeculative Materialism.Christopher Davies -2016 -Journal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (4):468-485.detailsABSTRACT Quentin Meillassoux claims that physical resurrection of the dead is necessary and sufficient for justice to be realized in the world. This article presents two arguments against Meillassoux's claim: the permanence argument, which suggests that events of injustice cannot be erased by what happens later, and the priority argument, which suggests that death is not the chief injustice. The article also investigates the consequences of rejecting Meillassoux's view, asking whether a commitment to justice is still viable if it cannot (...) be fully realized in the world. (shrink)
Play-like behaviour: An essay inspeculative ethology.K. Kortmulder -1983 -Acta Biotheoretica 32 (3):145-166.detailsIt is claimed that certain processes of individual behaviour and of interaction between individuals run parallel. Such parallels are seen along three axes: antagonism-coordination, constriction-expansion and neutral-play-like.Characteristics of ritualized behaviour and play are analysed and the two categories of behaviour are compared in detail. They are shown to differ largely in degree of expansion. They also differ along the antagonism-coordination axis. Both are play-like.
Speculating God:Speculative Realism and Meillassoux’s Divine Inexistence.Leon Niemoczynski -2014 - In Clayton Crockett, Keith Putt & Jeffrey Robbins,The future of continental philosophy of religion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 92-108.details“Speculating God:Speculative Realism and Meillassoux’s Divine Inexistence.” In The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion. Edited by Clayton Crockett, Keith Putt, and Jeffrey Robbins. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
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FromSpeculative Nanoethics to Explorative Philosophy of Nanotechnology.Armin Grunwald -2010 -NanoEthics 4 (2):91-101.detailsIn the wake of the emergence and rapid development of nanoethics there swiftly followed fundamental criticism: nanoethics was said to have become much too involved withspeculative developments and was concerning itself too little with actually pending questions of nanotechnology design and applications. If this diagnosis is true, then large parts of nanoethics are misguided. Such fundamental criticism must surely either result in a radical reorientation of nanoethics or be refuted for good reasons. In this paper, I will examine (...) the critics’ central arguments and, building on this scrutiny, formulate an answer to these alternatives. The results lead to conclusions which allow explaining and unfolding the thesis of this paper that instead ofspeculative nanoethics we should better speak of and develop explorative philosophy of nanotechnology. (shrink)
The Concept of Practice, Enlightenment Rationality and Education: Aspeculative reading of Michel de Certeau’s TheWriting of History.Graham Giles -2014 -Educational Philosophy and Theory 46 (3):1-14.detailsThis article proposes a reading of Michel de Certeau’s TheWriting of History which derives an understanding of the concept of practice as authoritative to the establishment and development of Enlightenment rationality. It is seen as a new form of legitimation established in the redeployment of religious ‘formalities’ in early modernity, supportive of the ostensible deliverance of the projects of reason.Subversive of its moral and ideological operations and geneses, this is an understanding of practice whose subject is the state. Practice, as (...) de Certeau advances it, led to the development of a concept of education productive of a regulatory ambit of social utility, and the student as both a figure of the utile and its moral postulate.This article thematizes the authoritative formality of the concept of practice in its hegemonic origins from early modernity to the thought of Karl Marx. It provides a needed supplement to Marx’s still provocative contribution to a persistent counternarrative, one which elides,and thus reinforces, significant prior,and no less persistent, functions of the concept of practice as here elaborated from de Certeau’s TheWriting of History. (shrink)
(1 other version)ASpeculative Poetics of Tammuz: Myth, Sentiment, and Modernism in Twentieth Century Arabic Poetry.Hamad Al-Rayes -2020 -Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 22 (2):156-176.detailsIn this paper, I attempt to read the poetic principle behind the Tammuzi movement of modern Arabic poetry through the lens ofspeculative poetics. Whilespeculative-poetic accounts of modern poetry, such as those provided by Allen Grossman, blazed new paths connecting poetry to personhood in modernity, their application to the development of modern poetry outside of Europe remains limited by their self-avowed focus on European history. This paper will outline a critical corrective tospeculative poetics which, I (...) argue, can be of value in extending its domain of application to Arabic projects of poetic modernity, particularly the two tendencies of "free verse" and "commitment" poetry that emerged out of the Tammuzi movement. (shrink)
Reason and the restlessness of thespeculative: Jean-Luc Nancy's reading of Hegel.Simon Lumsden -2005 -Critical Horizons 6 (1):205-224.detailsThis paper examines Jean-Luc Nancy's interpretation of Hegel, focusing in particular on The Restlessness of the Negative. It is argued that Nancy's reading represents a significant break with other post-structuralist readings of Hegel by taking his thought to be non-metaphysical. The paper focuses in particular on the role Nancy gives to the negative in Hegel's thought. Ultimately Nancy's reading is limited as an interpretation of Hegel, since he gives no sustained explanation of the self-correcting function of reason.
Ethics, speculation, and values.Rebecca Roache -2008 -NanoEthics 2 (3):317-327.detailsSome writers claim that ethicists involved in assessing future technologies like nanotechnology and human enhancement devote too much time to debating issues that may or may not arise, at the expense of addressing more urgent, current issues. This practice has been claimed to squander the scarce and valuable resource of ethical concern. I assess this view, and consider some alternatives to ‘speculative ethics’ that have been put forward. I argue that attempting to restrict ethical debate so as to avoid (...) considering unacceptablyspeculative scenarios would not only leave scientific progress devoid of ethical guidance, but would also rule out some of our most important ethical projects. I conclude that the issue of speculation is a red herring: what is most important is not that ethicists concentrate on current issues or those that are most likely to arise; but that ethicists, scientists, and others focus on maximising what is most valuable. (shrink)
Speculation: politics, ideology, event.Glyn Daly -2019 - Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.detailsSpeculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel's radical perspective ofspeculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities. Engaging with such figures as Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Zizek, and Fredric Jameson, Glyn Daly articulates the distinctness ofspeculative philosophy and draws its implications for new debates in areas of science, politics, capitalism, ideology, ethics, and the event." -- Publisher's description.
Speculative Societies – Towards a new Research Agenda.Manuel Reinhard -2021 -Revue de Philosophie Économique 21 (2):51-81.detailsEn ces temps d’avenir perdu, les sociétés sont des sociétés spéculatives, qu’elles le veuillent ou non. Alors que la crise financière de 2007–2008 s’est transformée en une myriade de crises politiques dans les années qui ont suivies. En effet, l’esprit d’un âge néo-biedermeierien et les programmes politiques axés sur la stabilité sont devenus le modus operandi de l’Occident dans les contextes économiques et bien au-delà. Le désenchantement du néolibéralisme et son eschatologie politique dans un large éventail de domaines socioculturels perdurent (...) des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, tout autant que l’aporie des sociétés qui tentent de sauver le statu quo même si celui-ci avait perdu son chemin. En conséquence, les sociétés actuelles seraient, même sans le désirer, des sociétés spéculatives. Des éclaircissements sur la notion même de spéculation apparaissent alors nécessaires. Cet article vise à offrir ces éclaircissements. Pour cela, cet article s’appuie sur le cadre réglementaire d’après-crise de Bâle III. Cette analyse philosophique est d’autant plus éclairante si le « désarmement de la politique » (Habermas 2018, ma traduction) au nom de politiques prétendument inévitables, à vocation sécuritaire et stable, peut constituer l’objet de critique. Cet article est, par conséquent, une esquisse philosophique. Ce qui suit est une série de réflexions sur le concept de spéculation au-delà des frontières de la compréhension financière ou économique actuelle et, enfin, de minuscules manifestes sur la façon dont les études philosophiques et autres pourraient mobiliser et affiner ce concept. Tout d’abord cet article offre une histoire conceptuelle de la notion de spéculation (section deux). Dans un deuxième temps, les effets instables de l’aporie de stabilité concernant des régularisations financières sont analysés (section trois). Enfin, les bases pour un renouveau du concept de spéculation, utile pour la philosophie et qui maîtrise les apories des sociétés spéculatives, sont développées (section quatre). Si la philosophie ne peut prévenir la pensée d’être parfois large et incertaine, la philosophie peut sans doute être appréhendée comme un « hybride onto-épistémique-éthique », en recourant à la notion de spéculation. C’est ce que cet article suggère : offrir un langage qui pourrait permettre de penser la « spécularisation » des mondes sociaux en ce début du xxi e siècle. C’est à dire, le passage de la politique des classes à la politique identitaire (représentant les cultures plutôt que les classes), du capitalisme industriel à la politique culturelle (vendre des valeurs au détriment des fonctions) et des acteurs rationalisés au conservateur (choisir entre des identités à la place des préférences). (shrink)
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