Transcendence and Dissatisfaction in Jaspers’ Idea of the Self

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronny Miron
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
The Status ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Present Understanding

This paper deals with the idea of the search for self, mainly in the thinking of Karl Jaspers. The discussion will focus on the very nature of this search and the power that motivates it. For this purpose, it will employ a phenomenological viewpoint that will follow Jaspers’ course from its first point of departure, in which the self appeared. As an object of observation, up to the point where the self acquired the status of the subject, i.e., appeared as a personal and existential issue. The positively achieved insights about the self and the frustrations involved in this search will be clarified systematically. The author argues that Jaspers’ search was inspired by a constant experience of dissatisfaction, which directed the self to transcend every present understanding of the self and to look for an improved one. Lastly, the search for the self will appear as leading to another search, i.e. that for Being and transcendence.

scholarly journals 'Critique' as Technology of the Self

2005 ◽  
pp. 97-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
The Self ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
The Status ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Subject

This inquiry is situated at the intersection of two enigmas. The first is the enigma of the status of Kant's practice of critique, which has been the subject of heated debate since shortly after the publication of the first edition of The Critique of Pure Reason. The second enigma is that of Foucault's apparent later 'turn' to Kant, and the label of 'critique', to describe his own theoretical practice. I argue that Kant's practice of 'critique' should be read, after Foucault, as a distinctly modern practice in the care of the self, governed by Kant's famous rubric of the 'primacy of practical reason'. In this way, too, Foucault's later interest in Kant - one which in fact takes up a line present in his work from his complementary thesis on Kant's Anthropology - is cast into distinct relief. Against Habermas and others, I propose that this interest does not represent any 'break' or 'turn' in Foucault's work. In line with Foucault's repeated denials that he was interested after 1976 in a 'return to the ancients', I argue that Foucault's writings on critique represent instead both a deepening theoretical self-consciousness, and part of his project to forge an ethics adequate to the historical present.

scholarly journals Affective Aporetics: Complementary Contradictions in the Interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche

PhaenEx ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
NANDITA BISWAS MELLAMPHY
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
The Self ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Place Holder ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

In 1971, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter introduced his study of Nietzsche as an investigation into the history of modern nihilism in which “contradiction” forms the central thread of the argument. For Müller-Lauter, the interpretive task is not to demonstrate the overall coherence or incoherence of Nietzsche’s philosophy, but to examine Nietzsche’s “philosophy of contradiction.” Against those such as Karl Jaspers, Karl Löwith and Martin Heidegger, Müller-Lauter argued that contradiction is the foundation of Nietzsche’s thought, and not a problem to be corrected or cast aside for exegetical or political purposes. For Müller-Lauter, contradiction qua incompatibility (not just mere opposition) holds a key to Nietzsche’s affective vision of philosophy. Beginning with the relationship between will to power and eternal recurrence, in this paper I examine aspects of Müller-Lauter’s account of Nietzsche’s philosophy of contradiction specifically in relation to the counter-interpretations offered by two other German commentators of Nietzsche, Leo Strauss and Karl Löwith, in order to confirm Müller-Lauter’s suggestion that contradiction is indeed an operative engine of Nietzsche’s thought. Indeed contradiction is a key Nietzschean theme and an important dynamic of becoming which enables the subject to be revealed as a “multiplicity” (BGE §12) and as a “fiction” (KSA 12:9[91]). Following Müller-Lauter’s assertion that for Nietzsche the problem of nihilism is fundamentally synonymous with the struggle of contradiction experienced by will to power, this paper interprets Nietzsche’s philosophy of contradiction in terms of subjective, bodily life (rather than in terms of logical incoherences or ontological inconsistencies). Against the backdrop of nihilism, the “self” (and its related place holder the “subject”), I will argue, becomes the psycho-physiological battlespace for the struggle and articulation of “contradiction” in Nietzsche’s thought.  

scholarly journals Disciplinary Power and the Role of the Subject at a Nineteenth-Century Danish Asylum

PhaenEx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
BJØRN HAMRE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

This article reports on the ways in which psychiatric practice and power were constituted in a Danish asylum at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The point of departure will be a complaint by a former patient questioning the practice at the asylum in 1829. In an analysis of this narrative the study draws upon Foucauldian concepts like disciplinary power, confession, pastoral power and subjectivation. I will argue that the critique of the patient provides us with an example of the way that disciplinary power works in the case of an informal indictment of the methods and practice at an asylum. A key issue is whether the critique is not itself a part of the self-legitimation of disciplinary power.

scholarly journals The Black Heroine in the Mirror: crossing the threshold of the specular image, the esoteric journey and the encounter with the annihilating I in Jordan Peele’s Us

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gitanjali Kapila
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Hero's Journey ◽  
The Self ◽  
Joseph Campbell ◽  
Mirror Stage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Specular Image ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Ideal

Using the conceptual framework of the mirror-stage established by Lacan to describe the initial anchoring of the subject, this paper seeks to interrogate the mirror as the locus of a secondary elaboration of the hero’s journey which follows its traditional articulation adumbrated by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. If the goal of the classic hero as Campbell suggests is to exit the nursery which represents the subject’s entrapment in Oedipal triangulation, this study posits that the successful selfrelease of the hero from the nursery simply sees him entering another nursery where the hero’s world is conceived of as a series of infinitely nested nurseries without exit. The mirror and its binding capture become the exemplary point of departure for the secondary elaboration of the journey for which, it turns out, the black heroine is the ideal adventurer. It is no wonder then that Jordan Peele’s Us is replete with mirrors functioning as cinematic signifiers for the portals effecting the subject’s displacement not towards an outer world of aggressive fathers and unobtainable ideal mothers; but, rather into a proximate encounter with the self, one precipitated by the mirror where the goal of the journey –the one that can only be revealed by the black heroine– is the apprehension of the “cipher of [her] moral destiny” and the unfathomable cartography of her true exit.

scholarly journals The “conventional” view of redshifts

1977 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. O. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Instability ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quasar Absorption Lines ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
The Status ◽  
Expansion Of The Universe ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Universe

Exposé du point de vue “conventionnel” sur les décalages vers le rouge.In Peebles’ well-known textbook, one chapter is entitled “a child’s garden of cosmological models”. Maybe a “jungle” would better describe the lush diversity of theories expounded at this exceptionally interesting conference. If there is a dominant orthodoxy in cosmology, the proceedings here have successfully obscured it – a participant without prior exposure to the subject would not have gleaned from this week’s discussions what views were “conventional” and what were not. Anyway, I presume that my brief is to assess the status of the cosmological views that would commend themselves to Peebles and his like: that is to say, the package of ideas in which there was a “hot big bang”, galaxies and clusters condensed via gravitational instability, the quasar phenomenon is related to galactic nuclei, and all large redshifts (except perhaps quasar absorption lines) are due to the expansion of the universe. This, at least, is the framework within which we “conventional” people attempt to interpret the data – or (in the view of some “radicals”) the self-imposed blinkers by which our vision is confined.

scholarly journals The Romantic subject as an absolutely autonomous individual

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Miljana Cunta
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Treat All

This essay deals with the Romantic subject as a philosophical and literary category. Recog­ nizing the diversity and complexity of literary production in the Romantic period, this study does not attempt to treat all the many aspects of this subject, but it instead focuses upan a few: the role of nature, the status of imagination, and the subject's relation to the transcendental reality. In its rela­ tion to these issues, the Romantic subject appears as an absolutely autonomous individual, one who finds no satisfaction in claims to transcendental certainty made by any source outside the self, but relies on his immanent powers to achieve the self-awareness that is the only sure access to truth. Special attention is given to the Romantic mystical experience, whereby the subject eames into relation with the transcendental reality. Here what are termed mystical feelings are contrasted with religious feelings proper so as to stress the peculiarities of the Romantic religious experience. In providing a theoretical framewok for the religious experience, we have recourse to Rudolf Otto's definition of the "numinous," which denotes the feeling response of the subject to the divine aspect of reality. In comparison with the true religious experience, the Romantic type is seen as pseudo­- religious, thus confirming the proposed definition of the Romantic subject as a truly autonomous individual. The essay's second part contains an interpretation of selected poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with a view of extrapolating from them some aspects of the Romantic subject.

scholarly journals «Private Self» in the situation of the «disappearance» of the Other: the paradox of redundancy

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
О. В. Ходус
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Status ◽  
Clear Result ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Natural Result ◽  
The One ◽  
Self Objectification

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of organizing the private life, which is formed and changed in the complex interaction of the Self with the Other. It is claimed that in the present mode of production of subjectivity there has been a significant performance related to the extension of the “private self”. It is emphasized that the problem of our time is not in itself privacy or even the ease with which digital technologies facilitate access to the intimate, hidden aspects of our lives, but the loss of the individual’s ability to live in private as such, loss of privacy, autonomy, fear of remaining Alone with you, reducing the need to hide something. The consequence of this is the desire for a life «alone with everybody», which is a clear result of particular conflicts of individual and collective subjectivity. It is determined that the «scattering» of private semantics throughout the «social body» was a natural result of a specific ontology of the present time, which is denoted by the (re)configuration of the intersubjective connection of the Self - the Other, namely, the redefinition of the status of the Other (Great Other and various «real» others - authorities from the environment of the subject) against the background of «over-sufficiency» of the Self. The post-social, simulation, hyper-real order of constructing the I-Other relationship is emphasized. Such its properties condition a situation of potential (in)attention to the Other, (in)certainty of the Other, radical «liquidation of the Other». It is stated that in the situation of «missing Other», «statistical Other», «artificial / mediated Other», the limits and limits of one’s Self are questioned, that is, the sense of «secret life» disappears. It is said that private life is organized today in the format of a «publicly organized event» (in terminology by L. Theveno). It is determined that as the subject becomes involved in the most public mode of interaction, his attitude towards himself will find manifestation in the mode of expressive desire for self-expression, which can often acquire quite bold and frank forms of self-objectification. It is justified that in any case such a construction of privacy is marked by obvious redundancy. On the one hand, it turns out to be a kind of spectacle made up of various visually designed elements – personal stories, cases from private everyday life, personal emotional and physical representations aimed at creating an «impression». On the other hand, excess privacy, being the epiphenomenon of modern techno-capitalism of the neoliberal sense, emerges as an effective resource for utilitarian (self)exploitation and potential commercialization of self.

Concerning the abuse of power by an official

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Ihor Oheruk
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Code ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Government Functions ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Logical Semantic

Purpose. The purpose of the work is to analyze the application of the second and third parts of Article 3692 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine to officials in the context, that defines them by the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the note to Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Methodology. The methodology includes a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the available scientific and theoretical material and the formulation of relevant conclusions and recommendations. In the course of the study, the following methods of scientific knowledge were used: terminological, logical-semantic, system-structural, logical-normative. Results: in the course of research the cause of criminalization of such act as "abuse of power" is considered, the subject of the specified criminal act which has the features of "an official" in the context, that defines it by the note to Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is analyzed and the main ways of committing criminal acts, that are provided for in this article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine are identified. Originality. The study found, that one of the key conditions for the opportunity to influence officials, that are authorized to perform government or local self-government functions, is the position held by the official and the related opportunities. Therefore, taking into account the opinion of the scientists, that the subject of crimes, that are provided for by the second and third parts of Article 3692 is special, the peculiarities of which is the cumulative feature, that denotes, that such person is not endowed with the status of an official, well-founded need to specify the criminal legislation of Ukraine in terms of the application the second and third parts of Article 3692 of the Criminal code of Ukraine concerning officials in the context, that defines them by the criminal legislation of Ukraine in the note to Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Practical significance. The research results can be used in lawmaking in the improvement of anti-corruption legislation.

The Status of the Subject in Mahler's Ninth Symphony

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Symphony ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject
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