Negating Negation

Author : Timothy D Knepper
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780227902653

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Negating Negation by Timothy D Knepper Pdf

'Negating Negation' critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols; removal and negation; hierarchy and hierurgy; ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that the Dionysian corpus does not negate all things of an absolutely ineffable God; rather, it negates few things of a God that is effable in important ways. Dionysian divine names are not inadequate metaphors or impotent attributes but transcendent divine causes. Divine names are not therefore flatly negated of God but removed as ordinary properties to be revealed as divine causes. It is concluded that since the Dionysian corpus does not abandon all things to apophasis, it cannot be called to testify on behalf of (post)modern projects in religious pluralism and anti-ontotheology. Quite the contrary, the Dionysian corpus gives reason for suspicion of such projects, especially when they relativize or metaphorize religious belief and practice in the name of absolute ineffability.

Author : Roberto Esposito
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509539451

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Politics and Negation by Roberto Esposito Pdf

For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world stage – from terrorism and armed conflict to the threat of environmental catastrophe. At the same time, politics seems increasingly impotent in the face of these threats. In this book, the leading Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito reconstructs the genealogy of the reciprocal intertwining of politics and negation. He retraces the intensification of negation in the thought of various thinkers, from Schmitt and Freud to Heidegger, and examines the negative slant of some of our fundamental political categories, such as sovereignty, property and freedom. Against the centrality of negation, Esposito proposes an affirmative philosophy that does not negate or repress negation but radically rethinks it in the positive cipher of difference, determination and opposition. The result is a rigorous and original pathway which, in the tension between affirmation and negation, recognizes the disturbing traumas of our time, as well as the harbingers of what awaits at its limits. This highly original and timely book will be of great value to students and scholars in philosophy, cultural theory and the humanities more generally, and to anyone interested in contemporary European thought.

Author : Andrew W. Hass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857728494

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Hegel and the Art of Negation by Andrew W. Hass Pdf

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of history have seemed less compelling than they were for previous generations of philosophers, is study of Hegel again becoming important? Fashionable contemporary theorists like Francis Fukuyama and Slavoj Zizek, as well as radical theologians like Thomas Altizer, have all recently been influenced by Hegel, the philosopher whose philosophy now seems somehow perennial- or, to borrow an idea from Nietzsche-eternally returning. Exploring this revival via the notion of 'negation' in Hegelian thought, and relating such negativity to sophisticated ideas about art and artistic creation, Andrew W. Hass argues that the notion of Hegelian negation moves us into an expansive territory where art, religion and philosophy may all be radically conceived and broken open into new forms of philosophical expression. The implications of such a revived Hegelian philosophy are, the author argues, vast and current. Hegel thereby becomes the philosopher par excellence who can address vital issues in politics, economics, war and violence, leading to a new form of globalised ethics. Hass makes a bold and original contribution to religion, philosophy, art and the history of ideas.

Author : Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkoś,Piotr Cegłowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110754865

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Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric by Gréte Dalmi,Jacek Witkoś,Piotr Cegłowski Pdf

Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-linguistically. Strict Negative Concord differs both from the Negative Polarity Item strategy and the Asymmetric Negative Concord strategy in that the sentence becomes negative only if the sentence negator is overtly expressed in it, irrespective of how many negative expressions are used. The central aim of this book is to describe Strict Negative Concord in some Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. In particular, the volume gives an insight into the forms Strict Negative Concord manifests itself in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian (Slavic), Finnish, Hungarian, Mari (Finno-Ugric) and the closely related Selkup (Samoyedic) to a wide linguistic community. It aims to create a platform for comparison with similar phenomena in well-described European languages.

Author : Alison Scott-Baumann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780937717

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Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness by Alison Scott-Baumann Pdf

Ricœur lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation ('Do I understand something better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?') and never published his extensive writings on this subject. Ricœur concluded that there are multiple forms of negation; it can, for example, be the other person (Plato), the not knowable nature of our world (Kant), the included opposite (Hegel), apophatic spirituality (Plotinus on not being able to know God) and existential nothingness (Sartre). Ricœur, working on Kant, Hegel and Sartre, decided that all these forms of negation are incompatible and also fatally flawed because they fail to resolve false binaries of negative: positive. Alison Scott-Baumann demonstrates how Ricœur subsequently incorporated negation into his linguistic turn, using dialectics, metaphor, narrative, parable and translation in order to show how negation is in us, not outside us: language both creates and clarifies false binaries. He bestows upon negation a strong and central role in the human condition, and its inevitability is reflected in his writings, if we look carefully. Ricœur and the Negation of Happiness draws on Ricœur's published works, previously unavailable archival material and many other sources. Alison Scott-Baumann argues that thinking positively is necessary but not sufficient for aspiring to happiness - what is also required is affirmation of negative impulses: we know we are split by contradictions and still try to overcome them. She also demonstrates the urgency of analysing current socio-cultural debates about wellbeing, education and equality, which rest insecurely upon our loose use of the negative as a category mistake.

Author : Ljuba Veselinova,Arja Hamari
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783985540358

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The Negative Existential Cycle by Ljuba Veselinova,Arja Hamari Pdf

Author : Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192566270

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The Oxford Handbook of Negation by Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal Pdf

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

Author : Matti Miestamo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110185799

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Standard Negation by Matti Miestamo Pdf

Offers a cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on a systematic language sample. This book discusses methodological issues, especially sampling, and typologizes standard negation by paying attention to structural differences between affirmatives and negatives.

Author : Ambjörn Sjörs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348554

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Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic by Ambjörn Sjörs Pdf

In Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic Ambjörn Sjörs describes the grammar of verbal negation in a wide selection of Semitic languages with an emphasis on the historical change of negative expressions.

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520906471

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Thoughts on Death and Immortality by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Never translated before, 'Thoughts on Death and Immortality' was the first published work of Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872). The scandal created by portrayal of Christianity as an egoistic and inhumane religion cost the young Hegelian his job and, to some extent, his career. Joining philosophical argument to epigram, lyric, and satire, the work has three central arguments: first, a straightforward denial of the Christian belief in personal immortality; second, a plea for recognition of the inexhaustible quality of the only life we have; and third, a derisive assault on the posturings and hypocrisies of the professional theologians of nineteenth-century Germany.

Author : Daniel Jugrin
Publisher : Scholars' Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9786202302043

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Negation and Knowledge of God: Neoplatonism and Christianity by Daniel Jugrin Pdf

It is not soul, not intellect, not imagination, opinion, reason and not understanding, not logos, not intellection, not spoken, not thought, not number, not order, not greatness, not smallness, not equality, not inequality, not likeness, not unlikeness, not having stood, not moved, not at rest, not powerful, not intepowerful, not light, not living, not life, not eternity, not time, not intellectual contact with it, not knowledge, not truth, not kingship, not wisdom, not one, not unity, not divinity, not goodness, not spirit , not sonhood, not fatherhood, ..., not something among what is not, not something among what is, not known as it is by beings, not a knower of beings as they are. There is neither logos, name, or knowledge of it. It is neither dark nor light, not error, and not truth. There is universally neither postulation nor abstraction of it. While there are produced postulations and abstractions of those after it, we neither postulate nor abstract it. Since beyond all postulation is the all-complete and single Cause of all; beyond all abstraction: the preeminence of that absolutely free of all and beyond the whole. (Dionysius the Areopagite, De mystica theologia V).

Author : Jean Buridan,Gyula Klima
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300084250

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Summulae de Dialectica by Jean Buridan,Gyula Klima Pdf

This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the entire text of the Summulae de dialectica, by the Parisian master of arts John Buridan (1300-1358). One of the most influential works in the history of late medieval philosophy, the Summulae is Buridan's systematic exposition of his nominalist philosophy of logic. Buridan's doctrine spread rapidly and for some two hundred years was dominant at many European universities. His work is of increasing interest today not only to historians of medieval philosophy but also to modern philosophers, several of whom find in Buridan's ideas important clues to problems of contemporary philosophy. Gyula Klima provides a substantial introduction to Buridan's life and work and discusses his place in the history of logic. Through extensive notes Klima assists philosopher and medievalist alike to read Buridan with understanding and insight. Those with a philosophical interest in the relations among the structures of language, thought, and reality will find much to ponder in the Summulae.

Author : Folko Zander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004679436

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“Contradiction Resolves Itself” – An Analysis of the Arguments in the Chapter “The Essentialities or the Determinations of Reflection” in Hegel’s Doctrine of Essence by Folko Zander Pdf

It is well known that Hegel departs from tradition in his treatment of contradiction in a way that is scandalous to some. This book explores the question of what Hegel means by contradiction and how it can be made useful for philosophy. For this purpose, the context of Hegel's analysis of contradiction is subjected to a close analysis - the essentialities, namely identity, difference, diversity, and opposition. The contradiction that arises in the analysis of contradiction is resolved, thus opening up a groundbreaking method for a philosophy that proceeds systematically. Bekannt ist, dass Hegel in seiner Behandlung des Widerspruchs in einer für manche skandalösen Art von der Tradition abweicht. Vorliegendes Buch geht der Frage nach, was Hegel unter einem Widerspruch überhaupt versteht und auf welche Weise er für die Philosophie dienstbar gemacht werden kann. Dafür wird der Kontext von Hegels Analyse des Widerspruchs einer genauen Analyse unterzogen - die Wesenheiten, namentlich Identität, Unterschied, Verschiedenheit und Gegensatz. Der bei der Analyse des Gegensatzes auftretende Widerspruch löst sich auf und eröffnet so eine bahnbrechende Methode für eine systematisch verfahrende Philosophie.

Author : Eugene Gogol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004232815

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Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization by Eugene Gogol Pdf

Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization is an exploration of Hegel’s dialectic and its radical re-creation in Marx’s thought within the context of revolutions and revolutionary organizations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Does a dialectic in philosophy itself bring forth a dialectic in revolutionary organization? This question is explored via organizational practices in the Paris Commune, the 2nd International, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Spanish Revolution of 1936-37 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, as well as the theoretical-organizational concepts of such thinkers as Lassalle, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky and Pannekoek. “What Philosophic-Organizational Vantage Point Is Needed for Revolutionary Transformation Today?” is examined by engaging the theoretical arguments of a number of thinkers. Among them: Adorno, Dunayevskaya, Hardt and Negri, Holloway, Lebowitz, Lukcás, Mészáros and Postone.

Author : André Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015050162166

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The Work of the Negative by André Green Pdf

Andre Green draw attention to the work of the negative in Freud, examining aspects which are not normally associated with it: dream work, the work of mourning, identification etc.