Re: [xmca] The Ubiquity of Unicorns

[Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca>]

Hi Eric,
think about it that way: This is the potential of language, and, if  
it was my intention to pull the rug, then I succeeded. When is  
language serious? When is it in jest? Are there determinate rules to  
get at the intentions of another?

The whole project Derrida undertook is to radically question the  
presupposition that there is some "self-identical meaning,  
intuitively accessible, actual experience in the interiority of a  
transcendental subjectivity"---to quote Habermas. This presupposition  
of self-identical meaning somehow denoted by specific words is the  
problem.

;-)


Michael


On 23-Oct-09, at 4:05 PM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:



Micahel:

I believe in this instance we are doing what Mike Cole refers to as
"talking past each oether".  I am at a loss to understand your meaning.

thank you for the discourse,
eric

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Hi,


On 23-Oct-09, at 10:51 AM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:

consciousness has developed.  David Kellogg has provided numerous
examples
of how native Korean speaking people do not grasp basic concepts of the
english language.  Some of the low achieving students I work with have


I think, with Heidegger, Derrida, Rorty, Wittgenstein, Davidson,
Deleuze, and others, that the difference between knowing a language
and knowing one's way around the (cultural) world is undecidable.
Concepts are not just concepts of English language, they are
irreducibly interwoven with the way of life.

This is why Anglo-Saxons tend to have difficulties with activity
(Tätigkeit, deyate'nost) and activity (Aktivität, aktivnost'). This
is why there is no concept like Bildung, because in the conduct of
life of Anglo-Saxons, there is no equivalent segmentation to which
the concept could refer, and there is no inter-concept relation where
such a distinction would be useful.

I do find the concept of "concept" problematic, because it is being
used on this list without working out just what it stands for. (in
general use, it appears like meaning that is somehow related to words.)

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