The Time of Memory: Teachers and the Role of the Teachers' LoungeThe Time of Memory places emphasis on nonvoluntary memory and the mythology of memory in the context of questions that are prominent in contemporary thought. How do memories form experiences of origin and identity? How might we describe the functions of memory in thought or knowledge? Are there memories without images? How do past times become present? The book also addresses the force of mutation in the formation of memories as well as the roles of memories in experiences of ecstasy, sublimity, continuity, and discontinuity. The book engages Aristotle, Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, and Heidegger, as well as such mythological figures as Mnemosyne, Lethe, Dionysus, and Apollo. |
Contents
Introduction Measuring Shadows | 1 |
Mnemosynes Loss and Stolen Memories | 25 |
Remembering Hans Georg Gadamer | 27 |
Mnemosyne and Lethe | 30 |
Heidegger and Derrida | 35 |
A Notation on Mnemosynic Thinking | 43 |
An Excursus on Memorial Fusions | 44 |
On Originating and Presenting Another Time The Art of Tragedy | 53 |
An Exposition | 153 |
Establishing Discontinuities | 155 |
Signs of Representation | 161 |
The Space of a Question | 167 |
An Excursus on Full Houses | 173 |
Repetitions and Differentiations | 185 |
Singularities | 187 |
Liberation from Common Sense and Good Spirit | 191 |
MemoryTime | 54 |
Sublime Foreigners | 56 |
A Second Fragment | 61 |
Last Fragment | 66 |
Powers of Transformation within a Memorial Reading Narratives of Dionysus | 69 |
Dionysus | 71 |
Dionysian Memory and Thought | 76 |
An Excursus on Sanity and a Sublime Aspect of Dionysian Occurrences | 79 |
Dionysian SelfCriticism | 82 |
The Power of Nondetermination with Determinations in Appearances | 89 |
Engagement and Encounter | 90 |
Apollinian Force | 96 |
Nature Ecstasy and the Sublime | 109 |
Institutional Songs and Involuntary Memory Where Do We Come From? | 117 |
Locating the PresentPast | 120 |
When the Company of Time Casts No Shadow Memory of Differences and Nondetermination | 145 |
Orders of Samenesses and DifferencesAnd In Between Them | 151 |
Singularity and Memory | 200 |
Gifts of Fire Witnessing and Representing | 205 |
Witnessing the Touch | 216 |
A Symptom of Life in the Absence of Light | 227 |
The Worldliness of Inner Private Experience | 231 |
Meaning Is the Face of the Other | 235 |
A Sense of the Absence of Light in Relations | 237 |
Return to Infinite Meaning | 238 |
Gifts without Fire Thinking and Remembering | 243 |
What We Philosophers Do | 251 |
Strategies for Thinking With Attention to Its Drawing Powers | 255 |
Two Strategies for Thinking | 259 |
Thought and Ethos | 274 |
Observing in a Subjunctive Mood | 276 |
Notes | 283 |
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