[Xmca-l] FW: Re: FW: Integrating Experiences: Body and Mind MovingBetween Contexts

Mon May 18 14:36:28 PDT 2015

Peter, 
Here is a life-line.
It is the notion of "retrospective teleology" in Merleau-ponty.
M-P writes, "Conception cannot precede execution" - expression.
before expression (the work itself) there is only a vague knowing/sensing, and ONLY the work itself, completed and understood, will PROVE that there was something (rather than nothing) to be FOUND there (in the work of art or conversation or ...)
Expression/execution within the work in other words REVEALS only retrospectively - or sends back - the meaning/sens that WAS the works tells.
M-P asserts that our lives and freedom are characterized in virtue of a retrospective teleology. When we express our lives we become that which is expressed, AND retrospectively our life makes Sens of all that we have been
He quotes " we must think of this freedom CONCRETELY, as a creative revival of ourselves)

Kym maclaren also compares retrospective teleology with Judith Butler's notion/concept of performativity, repeated in performance creates the ILLUSION that gender is the EFFECT (the in virtue of) of an ORIGINAL cause.
gadamer also speaks of the "work" in this way.
I hope this clarifies this way of "thinking"
Larry

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Larry, I'm drowning!

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Peter,

thanks for this heads up. 

I looked over the contributing authors and have a sense of “the river runs through THIS”.

Is this a tributary that partakes of the same “source” as CHAT. 

when we look back retrospectively and discover a telos in virtue of this tributary, how do we understand the “branching”. 

Is the cultural river “adaptive” assuming some genesis as blueprint within the river's source or is the river “discovered” after the fact?

 is the “branching” discovered retrospectively AS “a telos AS IF it came before the discovery.

The “river” and the “field” may be compatible metaphors of integrative synthesis?

in search of the strange animals that show whose names/concepts  start with the letter “z”

This book seems interesting

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