Touching difficulty : sacred form from Plato to Derrida / Daniel M. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Daniel M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Aurora, Colo. : Davies Group Publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

The sun

The silence of art : Bataille's babbling sacrifice

A map, of sorts

Life's grave traces

The clarity of method and its demands

Truths of displacement

Aristotle and the trace of phenomenology

Encompassing flow or receding deformation ... a first tracing

The formal force of presence

The creative force of form

The force of an impotent demand

Limitation and light : creatures of the possible

The intellect moves as the necessity of exchange

The trace as the force of the absent

The trace and the gravity of words

The trace as the absence and the motion of the intelligible

Affirmation and absence

The sense of a gesture

Deformation of one hand rather than another

The difficulty of gestures

The subject as the site of the representation of possibility

The unity of the place of a doubled reflection

The displacing and transcending logic

Of the power of representation

On the place of the subject

The beginning of the subjective

Movement and method

Belonging to the necessity of the element

The divine task of beginning

The necessity of the hand

The difficult gesture of abandon

The presence of an object, the force of a gesture

The black box

The vanishing compulsion

The philosophical stakes of aesthetic form

The dark gestures of the hand

The presence of the frame ... and its gestures

The originality of trust

The silence evoked.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-935790-58-7

OCLC:

904560170