- Tytuł:
- “A Certain Way of Thinking”: Derrida, Weil and the Philippi Hymn
- Autorzy:
- Jesson, Stuart
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1930467.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2021-12-31
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
- Tematy:
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Derrida
Weil
metanoia
aporia
kenosis
God - Opis:
- Toward the beginning of one of her notebooks, Simone Weil interrupts a dense series of reflections on war, force and prestige to write, in parentheses: “(To think on God, to love God, is nothing else than a certain way of thinking on the world.)” In some respects, this one sentence is a crystallization of everything Weil wrote about God. The thought of God is somehow inseparable from a new mode of attention to and valuation of things “here below”; that is, from “a certain way of thinking.” In the discussion that follows I reflect on how this “certain way of thinking” might be understood, in dialogue with a few exemplary moments from Derrida’s late work, Martin Hägglund’s reading of Derrida, as well as some biblical scholarship on Philippians 2: 5-11, and a number of richly suggestive comments from Weil’s notebooks. I show that the conceptual aporias that, on Derrida’s account, reliably emerge from ethical reflection are inchoately affirmed by Weil and (a certain reading of) the Philippi hymn. More than this, I will suggest that when read in this way, the latter allows for a new interrogation of the role that the experience of conceptual aporia may play in metanoia, the changing of mind.
- Źródło:
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture; 2021, 5, 3; 7-22
2544-302X - Pojawia się w:
- Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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