For Freud as for Kant, it is a matter of an autonomous faculty that can be defined but not learned: “The lack of judgement,” Kant says, “is properly what one calls stupidity, and for his vice there is no remedy.” The scientist is no more spared this vice than anyone else.
Certeau, 73
Updates from October, 2010 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
Lourens ter Veen
-
nadja
Art is thus a kind of knowledge that operates outside the enlightend discourse which it lacks.
Certeau 66 -
harir
“Kant discerns in what he calls,in a stroke of genius, a “logical tact” (Logische Takt).Inscribed in the orbit of an esthetics,the art of operating is placed under the sign of the faculty of judgement, the “alogical” condition of thought.The traditional antinomy between “operativity” and “reflection” is trancended through a point of view which aknowledging art as the root of thought, makes judgement a “middle term” (Mittelglied) between theory and praxis.”
Certeau,de M.(72). -
thomashvv
What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded–God knows how–in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.
Elizabeth Costello -
brittdebruyn
The distinction no longer refers essentially to the traditional binominal sets of ‘theory’ and ‘practice’, specified by a further distinction between ‘speculation’ aimed at deciphering the book of the cosmos and concrete ‘applications’; rather the distinction concerns two different operations, the one discursive (in and through language) and the other without discourse.
Certeau, blz 65 -
brittdebruyn
The distinction no longer refers essentially to the traditional binominal sets of ‘theory’ and ‘practice’, specified by a further distinction between ‘speculation’ aimed at deciphering the book of the cosmos and concrete ‘applications’; rather the distinction concerns two different operations, the one discursive (in and through language) and the other without discourse.
Citation -
daya
“There used to be a time when we knew. We used to believe that when the text said, ‘On the table stood a glass of water,’ there was indeed a table, and a glass of water on it, and we had only to look in the word-mirror of the text to see them. But all that has ended. The word-mirror is broken, irreparably, it seems.”
(Coetzee 19) -
rebeccadrees
Concerning them it occurs to no one to ask whether there is knowledge; it is assumed there must be, but that it is known only by people other than its bearers. Like that of poets and painters, the know-how of daily practices is supposed to be known only by the interpreter who illuminates it in his discursive mirror though he does not possess it either.
Certeau – The Arts of Theory p.71 -
Jeroen
More generally, for Durkheim, society is a kind of writing that only he can read. Here, knowledge is already written in places, but not yet enlightened. Science will be the mirror that makes it readable, the discourse “reflecting” an immediate and precise operativity lacking language and consciousness, an operativity already knowledgeable but unrefined.
De Certeau, the Arts of Theory, p. 68 -
geerte
Concerning them it occurs to no one to ask whether there is knowledge; it is assumed that there must be, but that it is known only by people other than its bearers.
The practice of everyday life – Michel de Certeau