By Jean-Francois Lyotard, Georges Van Den Abbeele
Enthusiasm reviews what Kant calls a "strong" feel of the elegant, no longer as a cultured feeling yet as a kind of political judgment rendered now not by way of the energetic members in ancient occasions yet those that witness them from afar. Lyotard's research, preparatory to his paintings in The Differend and next courses, is a thorough rereading of the Kantian "faculties," commonly understood as capabilities of the brain, when it comes to a philosophy of words derived from Lyotard's past encounters with Wittgenstein's idea of language video games. the result's one of those "fourth" critique dependent in Kant's later political and old writings, with an emphasis on figuring out where of these unexpected and unscripted occasions that experience the ability to reshape the political/historical panorama (such because the French Revolution, might 1968, and others).
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Secondly, surely Nancy is confusing two dissimilar things here, the first ‘religion’ which is a mode of interpreting texts and ‘art and literature’ which are texts. indd 39 7/12/2001 7:37:56 AM 40 Deconstruction without Derrida quite capable of assuming (even believing in) the sameness of the other with the best of them. We are urged to ‘hear these terms in all their truth’ but their ambiguity and elasticity (which is also their truth) seems to be interfering with my philosophical hearing aid. Thirdly, it is not clear to me that ‘belief ’ should be so readily tied to religion and ‘faith’ not so.
This can all be read as a consideration of preparable religion, or, revelation through clarity. e. Isaiah, not Isaac who was almost sacrificed by his Father as a result of pre-parable revelation) concerning less figurative presentations of the good news. e. indd 32 7/12/2001 7:37:55 AM Toucher II: Keep Your Hands to Yourself 33 should heal them’. Nancy’s reading of this must be that the parables are designed to prevent the unblocking of ears and sight and to prevent conversion. However, one might also say that the important word in this sentence is ‘lest’, which can be read with Nancy to suggest ‘so that they do not’ but equally as meaning ‘unless’, that is, that at some point they should hear the meaning of these parables and be healed.
The difficulty Nancy has set up for himself by a gesture which simultaneously universalizes religion and all art and literature (as if they were to be received in the same way) leads his text into a constant negotiation between its own contradictory impulses to philosophize and to deconstruct. At the end of it, what has been heard, what we have been listening to, and what has been eclipsed is still in considerable doubt. indd 40 7/12/2001 7:37:56 AM Toucher II: Keep Your Hands to Yourself 41 The Nancy code Let me conclude this chapter, and so make a return to the remit and ambit of touch, by accounting for Nancy’s reading of the ‘noli me tangere’ to suggest that this very text and its numerous representations might present difficulties for Nancy’s hypothesis concerning literature and art.