Hypatia articles from September 2000

Hypatia archives from September 2000

"A matter of affect, passion, and heart": our taste for new narratives of the history of philosophy.
September 22, 2000... This article compares translation and commentary practices surrounding the texts associated with French feminism with those of contemporary French women philosophers more generally. Many of the latter, discussing the history of philosophy, ask...

Who's afraid of the sophists? Against ethical correctness.
September 22, 2000... SOPHISTIQUE, subst. A. Ensemble des doctrines, ou plus exactement attitude intellectuelle commune des principaux sophistes grecs (Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, etc.). B. (Nom commun.) Se dit d'une philosophie de raisonnement verbal,...

Antonia Soulez: introduction.
September 22, 2000... Soulez's work focuses on the ethical dimension of philosophy manifested in the way in which thought engages and transforms an acting subject on a formal level, beyond what is "said" as such, including any explicitly ethical statements....

Conversion in philosophy: Wittgenstein's "saving word".
September 22, 2000... Wittgenstein raises the notion of "conversion" in philosophy through his claims that philosophical understanding is a matter of the will rather than the intellect. Soulez examines this notion in Wittgenstein's philosophy through a series of...

Frege and the surprising history of logic: introduction to Claude Imbert, "Gottlob Frege, one more time".
September 22, 2000... Convinced that logic has a history and that its history always manages to surprise the philosophers, Claude Imbert has devoted much of her work to the study of the Stoic school and of the late-nineteenth-century German logician Gottlob Frege....

Gottlob Frege, one more time.
September 22, 2000... Frege's philosophical writings, including the "logistic project," acquire a new insight by being confronted with Kant's criticism and Wittgenstein's logical and grammatical investigations. Between these two points a non-formalist history of...

FranCoise Dastur by herself.(Interview)
September 22, 2000... FranCoise Dastur describes her efforts to practice history of philosophy in a (paradoxically) non-historical fashion. She discusses her concept of the historical, and argues that the only true way to be of one's time is to be against one's...

Phenomenology of the event: waiting and surprise.
September 22, 2000... How, asks Francoise Dastur, can philosophy account for the sudden happening and the factuality of the event? Dastur asks how phenomenology, in particular the work of Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, may be interpreted as offering such an...

Introduction to de la resistance.
September 22, 2000... Francoise Proust explains that where Foucault established a cartography of power, she is interested in elaborating an "analytic of resistance." This, she elaborates, would be "the transcendental of every resistance, whatever kind it be:...

Catherine Malabou and the currency of Hegelianism.
September 22, 2000... Catherine Malabou is a professor of philosophy at Paris-Nanterre. A collaborator and student of Jacques Derrida, her work shares some of his interest in rigorous protocols of reading, and a willingness to attend to the undercurrents of...

The future of Hegel: plasticity, temporality, dialectic.
September 22, 2000... At the center of Catherine's Malabou's study of Hegel is a defense of Hegel's relation to time and the future. While many readers, following Kojeve, have taken Hegel to be announcing the end of history, Malabou finds a more supple impulse, open...

Introduction.
September 22, 2000... A philosopher formerly based in Zagreb, now at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis), Rada Ivekovic explains the genesis of her interest in comparative philosophy, situated in the context of a convergence of Asian, Islamic, and European...

Coincidences of comparison.
September 22, 2000... Rada Ivekovic reflects on the significance of modernity in contemporary Indian philosophy. Where the orient has been figured as the other for western philosophers, she asks how Indian philosophy depicts the west, how philosophers such as Kant...

The line of resistance.
September 22, 2000... Proust interrogates Gilles Deleuze's notion of resistance in relation to death as that which is "turned against death." She questions a concept of resistance which is "no more than impassivity and indifference." How, she asks, can we know if...

Michele Le Doeuff.(Interview)
September 22, 2000... Michele Le Doeuff speculates about why the parity movement enjoyed attention and sympathy in France over recent years. She discusses recent developments in "State-handled" feminism, and the resurgence of interest in feminist debate in France....

Feminism is back in France--or is it?
September 22, 2000... Michele Le Doeuff discusses the revival of feminism in France, including the phenomenon of state-sponsored feminism, such as government support for "parity": equal numbers of women and men in government. Le Doeuff analyzes the strategically...

Scientific interest: introduction to Isabelle Stengers, "Another Look: Relearning to Laugh".
September 22, 2000... This introduction highlights the place of "interest" in Isabelle Stengers's essay "Another Look: Relearning to Laugh" and considers its importance for feminist analyses of the sciences. Claiming that the positive affects have been underemployed...

Another look: relearning to laugh.
September 22, 2000... It may be that denouncing the ideals of objectivity or neutrality associated with the sciences leads us into a trap: that of accepting, in order to criticize it, that there would be a common identity for the many ways to produce science....

Introduction to "Iconic Space and the Rule of Lands," by Marie-Jose Mondzain.
September 22, 2000... This introduction highlights two of Mondzain's contributions in the chapter reproduced here, "Iconic Space and the Rule of Lands." The first is her discussion of a link between images and power, which stresses the formal characteristics of...

Iconic space and the rule of lands.
September 22, 2000... In the following extract, Mondzain examines the way in which the spiritual hegemony of the Early Christian and Byzantine church was transformed into political power. The primary tool used in this endeavor was the icon. The representation of the...

Introduction to Monique David-Menard on Kant and madness.
September 22, 2000... Ross examines the relation between thought and madness within the practical and theoretical wings of Kant's critical philosophy. She argues that the notion of critique is formulated as a guard against the tendency of thought to madness. She...

Kant's "An Essay on the Maladies of the Mind" and Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime.
September 22, 2000... David-Menard examines the problem of the genesis of Kant's moral philosophy. The separation between Kantian practical reason and the inclinations of sense which it regulates is shown by the author to originate in Kant's attempt to regulate his...

Beginning to read Barbara Cassin.
September 22, 2000... Stanley Cavell reflects on the writing of Barbara Cassin in light of his interest in interpreting certain philosophers as "philosophically destructive," where this destructiveness may in fact be understood as philosophically creative. Cavell...

"A Matter of Affect, Passion, and Heart" [1]: Our Taste for New Narratives of the History of Philosophy.
September 22, 2000... This article compares translation and commentary practices surrounding the texts associated with French feminism with those of contemporary French women philosophers more generally. Many of the latter, discussing the history of philosophy, ask...

Introduction to De la Resistance [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Penelope Deutscher Francoise Proust explains that where Foucault established a cartography of power, she is interested in elaborating an "analytic of resistance." This, she elaborates, would be "the transcendental of every...

The Line of Resistance [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Penelope Deutscher Proust interrogates Gilles Deleuze's notion of resistance in relation to death as that which is "turned against death." She questions a concept of resistance which is "no more than impassivity and...

Scientific Interest: Introduction to Isabelle Stengers, "Another Look: Relearning to Laugh".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... This introduction highlights the place of "interest" in Isabelle Stengers's essay "Another Look: Relearning to Laugh" and considers its importance for feminist analyses of the sciences. Claiming that the positive affects have been underemployed...

Another Look: Relearning to Laugh [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Penelope Deutscher, revised by Isabelle Stengers It may be that denouncing the ideals of objectivity or neutrality associated with the sciences leads us into a trap: that of accepting, in order to criticize it, that there...

Introduction to "Iconic Space and the Rule of Lands," by Marie-Jose Mondzain.(Critical Essay)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... This introduction highlights two of Mondzain's contributions in the chapter reproduced here, "Iconic Space and the Rule of Lands." The first is her discussion of a link between images and power, which stresses the formal characteristics of...

Iconic Space and the Rule of Lands [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Rico Franses In the following extract, Mondzain examines the way in which the spiritual hegemony of the Early Christian and Byzantine church was transformed into political power. The primary tool used in this endeavor was the...

Introduction to Monique David-Menard on Kant and Madness.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Ross examines the relation between thought and madness within the practical and theoretical wings of Kant's critical philosophy. She argues that the notion of critique is formulated as a guard against the tendency of thought to madness. She...

Kant's "An Essay on the Maladies of the Mind" and Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Alison Ross, revised by the editor David-Menard examines the problem of the genesis of Kant's moral philosophy. The separation between Kantian practical reason and the inclinations of sense which it regulates is shown by the...

Beginning To Read Barbara Cassin.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Stanley Cavell reflects on the writing of Barbara Cassin in light of his interest in interpreting certain philosophers as "philosophically destructive," where this destructiveness may in fact be understood as philosophically creative. Cavell...

Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Charles T. Wolfe, revised by the author and by the editor SOPHISTIQUE, subst. A. Ensemble des doctrines, ou plus exactement attitude intellectuelle commune des principaux sophistes grecs (Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus,...

Antonia Soulez: Introduction.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Soulez's work focuses on the ethical dimension of philosophy manifested in the way in which thought engages and transforms an acting subject on a formal level, beyond what is "said" as such, including any explicitly ethical statements....

Conversion in Philosophy: Wittgenstein's "Saving Word" [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Melissa McMahon Wittgenstein raises the notion of "conversion" in philosophy through his claims that philosophical understanding is a matter of the will rather than the intellect. Soulez examines this notion in Wittgenstein's...

Frege and the Surprising History of Logic: Introduction to Claude Imbert, "Gottlob Frege, One More Time".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Convinced that logic has a history and that its history always manages to surprise the philosophers, Claude Imbert has devoted much of her work to the study of the Stoic school and of the late-nineteenth-century German logician Gottlob Frege....

Gottlob Frege, One More Time [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Adriana Bontea, revised by the author and editor Frege's philosophical writings, including the "logistic project," acquire a new insight by being confronted with Kant's criticism and Wittgenstein's logical and grammatical...

Francoise Dastur by Herself [1].(Interview)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Penelope Deutscher Francoise Dastur describes her efforts to practice history of philosophy in a (paradoxically) non-historical fashion. She discusses her concept of the historical, and argues that the only true way to be of...

Phenomenology of the Event: Waiting and Surprise [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Francoise Dastur, translation revised by the editor How, asks Francoise Dastur, can philosophy account for the sudden happening and the factuality of the event? Dastur asks how phenomenology, in particular the work of...

Catherine Malabou and the Currency of Hegelianism.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Catherine Malabou is a professor of philosophy at Paris-Nanterre. A collaborator and student of Jacques Derrida, her work shares some of his interest in rigorous protocols of reading, and a willingness to attend to the undercurrents of...

The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, Dialectic [1].(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... Translated by Lisabeth During At the center of Catherine's Malabou's study of Hegel is a defense of Hegel's relation to time and the future. While many readers, following Kojeve, have taken Hegel to be announcing the end of history,...

Introduction [1].
September 22, 2000... Translated by Penelope Deutscher, text revised by the author A philosopher formerly based in Zagreb, now at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis), Rada Ivekovic explains the genesis of her interest in comparative philosophy, situated...

Coincidences of Comparison [1].
September 22, 2000... Translated by Penelope Deutscher, text revised by the author Rada Ivekovic reflects on the significance of modernity in contemporary Indian philosophy. Where the orient has been figured as the other for western philosophers, she asks how...

Interview.(Interview)
September 22, 2000... Edited by Penelope Deutscher Michele Le Doeuff speculates about why the parity movement enjoyed attention and sympathy in France over recent years. She discusses recent developments in "State-handled" feminism, and the resurgence of...

Feminism Is Back in France--Or Is It? [1].
September 22, 2000... Edited by Penelope Deutscher Michele Le Doeuff discusses the revival of feminism in France, including the phenomenon of state-sponsored feminism, such as government support for "parity": equal numbers of women and men in government. Le...