Quenched: Five Fires for Thinking Extinction

Jemma Deer

doi:10.3366/olr.2019.0262

Quenched: Five Fires for Thinking Extinction

Oxford Literary Review ◽

10.3366/olr.2019.0262 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Jemma Deer

Keyword(s):

Human Language ◽

The Past ◽

Ipcc Report ◽

The Future

By the light or remains of five fires, this paper considers how the current extinction crisis might be thought in relation to the future and the past, to speed and acceleration, to ir/reversibility, and to the evolution of human language and consciousness. The thought of extinction as the extinction of thought is elaborated through engagement with J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World, Jacques Derrida's ‘No Apocalypse, Not Now’ and ‘White Mythology’, and the October 2018 IPCC report. The paper concludes by speculating upon an answer to the following questions: if we know that there will be an end to thought, what will have been the end of thought? To what end do we think at all?

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HERMENEUTIKA AL-QUR’AN MUHAMMED ARKOUN

el-'Umdah ◽

10.20414/el-umdah.v1i2.549 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 130-144

Author(s):

Ishak Hariyanto

Keyword(s):

Human Language ◽

Arab Culture ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Written Form ◽

The Times

This paper wants to describe the hermeneutical method of Muhammed Arkoun towards the Qur’an. In Arkoun’s view, the Qur’an needs to be reinterpreted, because when the Qur’an was revealed by Allah it has been inﬂuenced by the historical and social realities of Arab culture. In addition, Arkoun said that the Qur’an is the incarnation of God’s words conveyed to humans, constructed in human language, transmitted orally by human voices, and written in written form. To reinterpret the Al-Qur’an, a hermeneutical method is needed, namely seeing the hermeneutical circle between text, author, and reader. The text of the Qur’an according to Arkoun is very rich in symbols, meanings, and is always open to all interpretations for readers. So Arkoun views the text of the Qur’an as a free interpretation. A text that remains open and not limited to, interpretation, because an interpretation that can enrich the meaning of a text, so that a text is not only limited to the past but also has an openness to the future so that it can understand the wishes of the author. From that reason, interpreting a text is a task that is never completed. Every age must seek its own interpretation. In this context, the Qur’an is also very freely interpreted according to the times and conditions to give enlightenment to humans with the demands of the times

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