scholarly journals Idea of Quasi-transcendental in Philosophy of Deconstruction

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 84-100
Author(s):  
Anna Ilyina
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Empirical Relation ◽  
Transcendental Philosophy ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
First Case ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Paper deals with investigation of deconstructive concept of quasi-transcendental in the context of general thematization of transcendental philosophy framework of which deconstruction is thought as a representational version. It was established that quasi-transcendental thinking amounts to such a re-interpretation of theoretical foundation of transcendental discourse in the frame of which moments of critique and hyperbolizing are united.Author brings to light and explores main topics of transcendental thought primarily and foremost subjected to the quasi-transcendental reflection: namely, the problem of relationship between transcendental and empirical and the problem of conditions of possibility. In the first case, an ambivalence of “transcendental-empirical” relation, inherent to transcendental discourse turns out to be sharpened. This relation combines in itself characteristics of opposition and juxtaposition, up to reciprocal conditioning. Transcendental becomes such only with regard to empirical and vise versa. In the second case, questioning on conditions of possibility is reshaped in discourse on conditions of impossibility, which proves to be both critical restriction and hyperbolic extension of the former. Paper shows that development of idea of quasi-transcendental in deconstructive philosophy is an outcome of mutual work of Derrida himself and his eminent commentators. The function and basic senses of concept “quasi”, which it obtains within the scope of deconstructive version of transcendentalism, are determined. In particular, an affinity of Derridian “quasi” with Kantian als ob is ascertained, as well as its connection with both critical attitude and discursive realm of fiction. A peculiarity of concept of ultra-transcendental as variation of notion “quasi-transcendental” is found out.Author explores the relation of quasi-transcendental discourse to empirism and gives reasons for priority of transcendental realm over empirical in Derridian thought. Paper lays bare the relationship of quasi-transcendental thinking with discourse of other, as a fundamental theme of deconstructive philosophy.In sum author claims that (1) importance of the theme of (quasi)transcendental in deconstructive discourse and (2) personal Derrida’s self-identification as quasi-transcendental philosopher serve as crucial reasons for investigation of deconstructive philosophy as a prominent version of transcendental thinking.

scholarly journals Contemporary Misticism: Recovering Sensible Aesthetics in an Age of Digital Production

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Randall Van Schepen
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Development ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Digital Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Print Era ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Materialist accounts of artistic development emphasize the ongoing revolution of media in the progress of history. Amongst the most popular accounts of modernity are Walter Benjamin’s essays on the relationship of photography to traditional art. His account of the loss of aura has been subject to countless reinterpretations since its publication. The present essay addresses the contemporary production of a number of architects and artists whose work provides an interesting challenge to the Benjaminian account of the secularization of artistic ritual. The artists Adam Fuss, Vera Lutter, Alison Rossiter, Sally Mann, and others have recently been exploring photographic methods that contradict the Benjaminian account of the history of photography. They continue to explore techniques that Benjamin placed in the auratic pre-paper-print era, such as Daguerreotypes and photograms, as well as employing other more material/chemically based effects. Such artistic choices are often considered nothing more than a nostalgic reverie trying to stem the tide of materialist history, a flawed search for a lost aura of presence. However, when these works are set against the backdrop of contemporary digitized production and of the Dusseldorf School as well as most other contemporary photographers, these “retro” works stand as a critical counterpoint to our present seamless digital imperium. The soft and hazy effects of these works, what I am calling their misticism, occludes the particularity of digital bits of information in a search to connect to the material and the sensual, something denied by information-saturated technologies. Even within a materialist approach to history, there is room to view these architectural and artistic effects as critically productive rather than merely retrograde. The present essay argues for the timely relevance of contemporary retro-photographic techniques in fostering both a critical attitude and as evidence of attempts to recover a sense of spiritual presence.

Factors Contributing to Intra-Individual Variation of Serum Constituents: 5. Short-Term Day-to-Day and Within-Hour Variation of Serum Constituents in Healthy Subjects

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1520-1527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Winkel ◽  
Bernard E Statland ◽  
Henning Bokelund
Keyword(s):  
Total Lipids ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Interaction Terms ◽  
Anova Model ◽  
First Case ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Analytical Variation

Abstract We evaluated the variations in some serum constituents in a group of healthy young men for two selected time intervals: short-term day-to-day changes and within-hour changes. In the first case, we used a two-way ANOVA model to compute the main-day effect and the subject-day interaction terms, which were combined to yield the total day-to-day variation. A main-day effect was seen to be statistically significant only for acid phosphatase, while all of the 18 serum constituents except for sodium, calcium, and albumin demonstrated a statistically significant subject-day interaction. For the within-hour biologic variation, a three-way ANOVA model was used to analyze results of duplicate serum samples drawn at 1100 h and 1130 h on two different days. Although a significant main effect of hour was found only for total lipids and alkaline phosphatase, pooling the main effect of hour, subject-hour interaction, and subject-day-hour interaction terms resulted in a chemically significant variation for potassium, total protein, albumin, iron, total lipids, cholesterol, and bilirubin. The relationship of these biological fluctuations is compared to the expected analytical variation in all cases.

scholarly journals Historical Critique or Transcendental Critique in Foucault: Two Kantian Lineages

2010 ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Koopman
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Critical Philosophy ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Phenomenology ◽  
Critical Project

A growing body of interpretive literature concerning the work of Michel Foucault asserts that Foucault’s critical project is best interpreted in light of various strands of philosophical phenomenology. In this article I dispute this interpretation on both textual and philosophical grounds. It is shown that a core theme of ‘the phenomenological Foucault’ having to do with transcendental inquiry cannot be sustained by a careful reading of Foucault’s texts nor by a careful interpretation of Foucault’s philosophical commitments. It is then shown that this debate in Foucault scholarship has wider ramifications for understanding ‘the critical Foucault’ and the relationship of Foucault’s projects to Kantian critical philosophy. It is argued that Foucault’s work is Kantian at its core insofar as it institutes a critical inquiry into conditions of possibility. But whereas critique for Kant was transcendental in orientation, in Foucault critique becomes historical, and is much the better for it.

scholarly journals Nature at the Limits of Science and Phenomenology

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-133
Author(s):  
David Suarez
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Transcendental Philosophy ◽  
General Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Ontological Ground ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractKant and Heidegger argue that our subjectivity escapes scientific explanation, while also providing the conditions that enable it. This understanding of the relationship between subjectivity and science places limits on the explanatory scope of the sciences. But what makes transcendental reflection on the structure of subjectivity possible in the first place? Fink argues that transcendental philosophy encounters its own limits in attempting to characterize its own conditions of possibility. I argue that the limits of science and transcendental philosophy entail that nature cannot be conceived as a specific object, or as a totality of objects in the world, but only as the ontological ground of phenomenal manifestation in general. Nature is not identical with anything discoverable in either science or phenomenology; it is, rather, the origin from which discovery of phenomena proceeds.

Discussions on Several Key Problems of the Control and Planning of Total Amount of Marine Pollutant

2014 ◽  
Vol 535 ◽  
pp. 320-327
Author(s):  
Juan Juan Dai ◽  
Jin Keng Wang ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Cui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scale ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Technology Roadmap ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study focuses on several key problems of the control and planning of total amount of marine pollutant. In this study, the definition of the concept and tasks of the control and planning of total amount of marine pollutant, as well as the time and spatial scale of the planning, is put forward. It also discusses the relationship of the planning with other related plans. The key points of the control and planning of total amount of marine pollutant are established, such as the purpose, guiding thoughts and principles. The technology roadmap of the planning is developed. These above discussions lay a theoretical foundation for the compilation of the control and planning of total amount of marine pollutant.

Movement and Deformation Rules of Gauss Coordinates Based on Ellipsoid Expanded Modal

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 2211-2215
Author(s):  
Li Xin Jin ◽  
Lian Jun Wang ◽  
Song Lin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Geodetic Coordinates ◽  
Geodetic Height ◽  
Longitudinal Coordinate ◽  
Movement And Deformation ◽  
Major Radius ◽  
Straight Lines ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Derivatives Of

This paper studies on deducing the analytic formulae on Gauss coordinates displacement before or after the increase of major radius of ellipsoid expanded modals, which is based on the partial derivatives of geodetic coordinates in Gauss coordinates deducing from direct solution formulae of the Gauss projection coordinates in conjunction with differential coefficient formulae and variable of geodetic coordinates. On this theoretical foundation, analyzing the relationships between Gauss coordinates displacement and other mathematical parameter . The relationship of graphics between point displacement components of latitudinal coordinate dy and longitudes is similar to the straight lines. The relationship of graphics between point displacement components of longitudinal coordinate dx and latitudinal coordinate dy, and the geodetic height is similar to the straight lines.

scholarly journals Sarcoidosis Developing During Secukinumab Therapy: Case Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Timothy Nyckowski ◽  
Roger Ceilley ◽  
Joshua Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Psoriatic Arthritis ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Pulmonary Involvement ◽  
Unknown Etiology ◽  
Systemic Involvement ◽  
First Case ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous inflammatory disease with an unknown etiology and complex pathogenesis. Existing literature supports the relationship of new-onset sarcoidosis with the use of a several biologic agents. Since the skin is the second most commonly involved organ in sarcoidosis and often precedes systemic involvement, dermatologists must be able to recognize its non-specific clinical presentation.Case Report: We present a 45 year old female with psoriatic arthritis who developed biopsy proven cutaneous sarcoidal granulomas with pulmonary involvement shortly after initiating secukinumab for treatment of psoriatic arthritis. Despite discontinuation of secukinumab, the sarcoidosis has persisted.Discussion: This is the first case report of secukinumab, or any IL-17 inhibitor related sarcoidosis that we are aware of in the literature. Dermatologists should be aware of this as a possible side effect of secukinumab use. As the research on the role of IL-17 in the pathogenesis of sarcoidosis continues to develop, the implications of this side effect of IL-17 inhibition may have important future implications.

scholarly journals Restorative justice and the relationship of perpetrator and victim of crime

Temida ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Bulatovic
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Social Reaction ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Traditional Understanding

Restorative justice as the theoretical foundation of social reaction to crime is one of the key themes of contemporary criminological discourse. The idea of crime as a conflict between perpetrator and victim of crime is included in the core ideas related to the concept of restorative justice, which differs from traditional understanding of crime as a relationship between the state and the individual. This change in perspective on crime points towards social reaction to crime that differs from traditional criminal justice system. As the restoration process of relationship damaged by crime is directly related to possibilities of participation in the very process, institutionalisation of that participation sets the scope of restorative process. In this article, the author points towards the traditional criminal justice and restorative justice processes, focusing the relationship of perpetrator and victim of crime and the process of conflict resolution. The aim of the article is to highlight the conflict perspective as a defining element of the relationship between offender and victim, and to underline the effectiveness of restorative justice as social reaction to crime, which contributes to optimisation of the relationship between the offender and the community.

scholarly journals Identity, Equality, Nameability and Completeness

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Manzano ◽  
Manuel Crescencio Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Binary Relation ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Higher Order Logic ◽  
First Case ◽  
General Semantics ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article is an extended promenade strolling along the winding roads of identity, equality, nameability and completeness, looking for places where they converge. We have distinguished between identity and equality; the first is a binary relation between objects while the second is a symbolic relation between terms. Owing to the central role the notion of identity plays in logic, you can be interested either in how to define it using other logical concepts or in the opposite scheme. In the first case, one investigates what kind of logic is required. In the second case, one is interested in the definition of the other logical concepts (connectives and quantifiers) in terms of the identity relation, using also abstraction. The present paper investigates whether identity can be introduced by definition arriving to the conclusion that only in full higher-order logic a reliable definition of identity is possible. However, the definition needs the standard semantics and we know that with this semantics completeness is lost. We have also studied the relationship of equality with comprehension and extensionality and pointed out the relevant role played by these two axioms in Henkin’s completeness method. We finish our paper with a section devoted to general semantics, where the role played by the nameable hierarchy of types is the key in Henkin’s completeness method.

Two Cases of Epithelioid Angiosarcoma Involving the Thyroid and a Brief Review of Non-Alpine Epithelioid Angiosarcoma of the Thyroid

2003 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. e70-e73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seng Geok Nicholas Goh ◽  
Khoon Leong Chuah ◽  
Hood Keng Christopher Goh ◽  
Yun Yin Cosmas Chen
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Disease ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Epithelioid Cells ◽  
Epithelioid Angiosarcoma ◽  
Old Chinese ◽  
First Case ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vascular Structures ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Epithelioid angiosarcoma involving the thyroid is a rare entity, more often described in the Alpine region. Two cases of epithelioid angiosarcoma that affected the thyroid in patients from a non-Alpine location were diagnosed during a 10-year period in our department. The first case occurred in an 89-year-old Chinese man with a history of longstanding goiter, whereas the second case involved a 74-year-old Chinese man with a history of angiosarcoma of the scalp. On histologic examination, both thyroid tumors were composed of plump epithelioid cells with vesicular chromatin and prominent nucleoli, forming vascular structures and solid sheets. Positive staining for CD31 and factor VIII–related antigen confirmed endothelial differentiation in both cases. Both patients died within 5 months following the diagnosis of thyroid disease. The relationship of the scalp angiosarcoma and thyroid disease of the second patient is unclear. A brief review of non-Alpine primary thyroid epithelioid angiosarcoma is presented.

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