In my experience, conversation on the list waxes and wanes. Perhaps things
have been relatively inactive lately, so in that sense only the list is
"inactive."
But thanks for the bit about Kant.
-Nate
At 02:52 PM 6/17/2005, you wrote:
Have you seen the <http://www.lcurve.org/>L-Curve?
But thanks for the bit about Kant.
-Nate
At 02:52 PM 6/17/2005, you wrote:
Richard Bailey wrote:
Is this list still active?
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EXPLAINING SILENCE
As we know Foucault translated Kant?s Anthropology.
Somewhere (AK VII, 281), Kant discusses what could be the rules
on an informal conversation, which are more or less these:
1) the conversation subject should concern everyone;
2) silence should not prevail, only short pauses are admitted;
3) so, it?s strongly recommended not to change abruptly from subject;
4) no one should intend to have the last word about the subject in discussion,
leaving in someway his assertions inconclusive;
5) and in the unavoyable case that the talk turns to a more serious subject,
one shoult control his own emotions and keep respect towards the others.
These rules aim a steady and pleasant conversation:
pleasant and not quarrelsome;
and steady so to avoid the terrible uneasiness of silence.
Kant refers here to a social and informal talk around
a table between people who share a meal (banquet).
But in our case: silence is not less uneasy.
Even if we are not exactly as few as we should
to be assembled in a "Tischgesellschaft" where,
as Foucault says in his "Introduction à l?Anthroplogie de Kant",
language is transparent.
SILENCE shows where language is coloured.
Leon Farhi Neto
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