From: "Jesse bloom" <essej-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: PLC: Literature and Space Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 19:14:39 PDT >From owner-phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Tue Jul 7 12:56:12 1998 >Received: (from domo-AT-localhost) by lists.village.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.6.6) id PAA34032 for phillitcrit-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:44:27 -0400 >X-Authentication-Warning: lists.village.Virginia.EDU: domo set sender to owner-phillitcrit-AT-localhost using -f >Received: from scott (scott.skidmore.edu [141.222.1.4]) by lists.village.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA82923 for <phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:44:21 -0400 >Received: from skidmore.edu by scott (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) > id PAA23278; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:43:47 -0400 >Message-ID: <35A27A3A.FDFC6299-AT-skidmore.edu> >Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 15:42:50 -0400 >From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu> >Organization: Skidmore College >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: PhilLitCrit <phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> >Subject: PLC: Literature and Space >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Sender: owner-phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU > >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 > > 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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