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From: "Jesse bloom" <essej-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: PLC: Literature and Space
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 19:14:39 PDT




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>I've become interested in how to think 'literature' and 'space' 
together.  I'm aware that there have been some people
>trying to conjoin the mathematical field of topology to literature 
(what I've read is not very inspiring), but I'm
>reading an essay by WJT Mitchell, called "Space, Ideology, and Literary 
Representation" where he writes: "How many times
>have we repeated Lessing's protonarrative of the Enlightenment as a 
dangerous invasion of spatial and pictorial values
>into the proper territories of literary temporality?  The fact remains 
that these values can be inverted, transforming
>space in the image of utopian desire, does not alter the dominant sense 
of space as the Other, the negative realm which
>must be colonized under the banner of Time."
>	He refers to an almost canonical view here, articulated by Lessing.  
Can someone tell me more about this view?  And how
>is the Englightenment associated with spatiality?  Philosophically 
speaking, for Kant (for example), space is the form
>of outer intuition, and time the form of inner intuition, and it is the 
latter that clearly is the more fundamental for
>Kant.  So I don't quite see how the Enlightenment is preponderately 
spatial in orientation.  Indeed, Hegel, a child of
>the Englightenment, makes time almost everything.
>
>Ciao,
>Reg
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>


hegel was a child of the Enlightenment? i think invasion of "space" is 
the impossibility to get out of predicates,"thing-in-itselfs" unless the 
basic conceptual grid of nature is considered to be irrational . 
freewill is space simulated by a lack, its definete causality transcends 
even time , thats the weakness of enlightenment philosphoy. hegel was 
more of a romantic i think . 

jesse

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