Karl: Explain, if you can, how you suspect Hegel's and Wittgenstein's
definiton of identity are similar. This way we may be able to probe
to establish what your views. What is written below is waffle.
> Someone posted to this list this week that he was writing about or
> wrestling with or had some relationship to or interest in W.
> Unfortunately I neglected to save that message, so I'm just going
> to send this enquiry to the group although its relationship to Foucault
> is thin as in non-existent...
> I'm intersted in knowing what W's "sceptical paradox" is.
> I'm reading Zizek about Lacan, but he is discussing Hegel's deduction of
> monarchy from his philosophy of right (as he describes it). He says
>
> "This coincidence of pure Culture (the empty signifier)
> with the left over of Nature in the person of the king entails the paradox
> of the king's relationship toward's law...In this sense, monarch functions
> as a personification of Wittgenstein's 'sceptical paradox...'"
>
> Later Zizek talks about the "Wittgensteinian definition of identity,"
> and I'd like to know more about that, also. I suspect that it is
> quite similar to Hegel's just by the way Zizek writes about it.
>
> Like Tina Chanter writing on Irigaray, Zizek spends more time
> discussing Hegel's ideas than he does the ostensible subject of the book...
>
> Thanks to the rest of you for your tolerance (Hegel says it is already
> decided that you will grant even before I asked. Or was that God who
> said that: I get confused.)
>
> Darlene Sybert
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> ...feelings too
> Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps
> As have no slight or trivial influence
> On that best portion of a good man's life,
> His little, nameless, unremembered acts
> Of kindness and of love... -Wm Wordsworth
> "LINES Composed A Few Miles Above Tinturn Abbey,
> On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye [River]
> During a Tour, July 11, 1798"
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>
>
>
>
Yours etc.,
Karl
definiton of identity are similar. This way we may be able to probe
to establish what your views. What is written below is waffle.
> Someone posted to this list this week that he was writing about or
> wrestling with or had some relationship to or interest in W.
> Unfortunately I neglected to save that message, so I'm just going
> to send this enquiry to the group although its relationship to Foucault
> is thin as in non-existent...
> I'm intersted in knowing what W's "sceptical paradox" is.
> I'm reading Zizek about Lacan, but he is discussing Hegel's deduction of
> monarchy from his philosophy of right (as he describes it). He says
>
> "This coincidence of pure Culture (the empty signifier)
> with the left over of Nature in the person of the king entails the paradox
> of the king's relationship toward's law...In this sense, monarch functions
> as a personification of Wittgenstein's 'sceptical paradox...'"
>
> Later Zizek talks about the "Wittgensteinian definition of identity,"
> and I'd like to know more about that, also. I suspect that it is
> quite similar to Hegel's just by the way Zizek writes about it.
>
> Like Tina Chanter writing on Irigaray, Zizek spends more time
> discussing Hegel's ideas than he does the ostensible subject of the book...
>
> Thanks to the rest of you for your tolerance (Hegel says it is already
> decided that you will grant even before I asked. Or was that God who
> said that: I get confused.)
>
> Darlene Sybert
> *****************************************************************************
> ...feelings too
> Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps
> As have no slight or trivial influence
> On that best portion of a good man's life,
> His little, nameless, unremembered acts
> Of kindness and of love... -Wm Wordsworth
> "LINES Composed A Few Miles Above Tinturn Abbey,
> On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye [River]
> During a Tour, July 11, 1798"
> ******************************************************************************
>
>
>
>
>
Yours etc.,
Karl