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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

considering 'experience' « Previous | |Next »
March 27, 2006

We have been here before, followed by this. It was suggested by this and this.

This quote from Zeynep Direk's On the Sources and the Structure of Derrida's Radical Notion of Experience sets the scene for another way to come at 'experience'. Direk says:

In the post-Second World War period in France there is a dissatisfaction with both "experience" in the Kantian sense and "experience" in the Hegelian sense. The questioning of Kant's, Hegel's, and Husserl's notion of experience is implicit in Blanchot, Bataille, Levinas and Derrida. Kant's notion of experience accounts for the experience of natural phenomena and is insufficient to take care of historical and social experiences of individuals insofar as it implies "the subsumption of the singularities under the categories of understanding." Kant's notion of experience deploys a "program" and desires mastery over the experienced. Hegel's concept of experience in the sense of "undergoing experiences" better accounts for what consciousness lives through; nevertheless, the mastery over the experienced through the mediation of absolute knowledge which is both at the end and at the beginning of the phenomenology indicates the same sense of "program." Thus, in both Hegel and Kant, experience refers to the unimpeded Greek Odyssey, a journey in which it is possible to return to the point from which one started, a return to the self.

And the reaction is this:
As a reaction to the conception of experience as a "program," a different conception of "radical experience" can be detected in Bataille, Blanchot, Levinas, and Derrida. These thinkers contribute to a re-thinking of the notion of experience. In order to make sense of this "tradition," one must go back to Hegel's concept of experience and to the reception of Hegel's philosophy in France as much as to the influence of Nietzsche's thought on these thinkers. "Radical experience" implies a journey that passes the limits, a bodily traversal which opens the space and goes to the world risking catastrophe and death. Although it fundamentally implies iterability it is not capable of being transferred and implies the loss of the possibility of deterministic decision. Its radicality has been conceived in terms of its "impossibility."

Deos raddcal experience work within, and revise, Hegel's concept of experience as "undergoing experiences" ?

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 08:45 PM | | Comments (0)
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