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So I've been rereading Derrida on Levinas, "Violence and Metaphysics", which I first read more than 20 years ago and BACK THEN DIDN'T FOLLOW A WORD OF. (I had it in my head as "wtf this is beyond me: example number one"...)
This time: not so hard. AT ALL. Except crashing into various technical usages which i am too dumb to look up. Back then there was nowhere to look them uop: now there is the whole internet (fsvo "whole" -- ie the bits on the internet about husserl)
Anyway, I cracked and googled 'husserl horizon', to disocver that (a) by "horizon" Husserl means something like "context" (and so presumbly does JD), and (b) here is an essay on husserl vs rorty: who will win? which is surprisingly easy to follow and engagingly put, and gave me a grand idea about epochs of metaphor
This time: not so hard. AT ALL. Except crashing into various technical usages which i am too dumb to look up. Back then there was nowhere to look them uop: now there is the whole internet (fsvo "whole" -- ie the bits on the internet about husserl)
Anyway, I cracked and googled 'husserl horizon', to disocver that (a) by "horizon" Husserl means something like "context" (and so presumbly does JD), and (b) here is an essay on husserl vs rorty: who will win? which is surprisingly easy to follow and engagingly put, and gave me a grand idea about epochs of metaphor
very hurried response
Date: 2009-06-22 12:45 pm (UTC)ii: "where are you with Kuhn?" -- somewhat behind, sorry about that...
*There is plenty of disagreement about how these various machineries and teories and definitions work, so there is plenty of stuff embedded in many of the definitions of transcendence floating around that RR can very easily disbelieve in.
**The thing that's being (pre)constituted (as regards the statement you're challenging) isn't the idea of the object, it's the idea of its individuality in the sense of the mathematical conception of oneness and singularity -- which as you suggest is quite strange: so a child's relationship to his mom and his earliest experiences isn't necessarily relevant (doesn't know yet, doesn't care yet about how many there are of something); Husserl's big area was where we get the basic idea-objects of mathematics -- geometry, number, infinity, etc -- from. Are they facts or are they decisions? Does Rorty explore this much?