Of minimal things : studies on the notion of relation
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Of minimal things : studies on the notion of relation
（Cultural memory in the present）
Stanford University Press, 1999
- : [cloth]
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Of Minimal Things is an exploration and reassessment of the philosophical notion of relation. In contrast to the scholastic, ontological conception of relation as a thing of diminished being, this book views relation as the minimal and elemental theme and structure of philosophy. Drawing radical conclusions from the classical understanding of relation as a being-toward-another, it argues that rethinking relation engages the very possibility and limits of philosophical discourse.
In the author's studies of Nietzsche and Benjamin, Husserl and Heidegger, Derrida and Blanchot, relation is shown to be central to their thought and to undergo elaborations that escape the ontological, categorial, and formalist ways in which the concept has traditionally been interpreted. Comprehending relation in terms of determination, foundation, mediatization, translation, or communication, these authors are shown to draw out and refine a host of structural implications of the notion that unseat its formalist and categorial conception.
Studying the writings of Mallarme and Kafka, the author argues that rethought from, and in light of the other to which a relation tends, philosophy necessarily opens up to and is implicated in its others, one such possible other being literature.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I. Untimely Relations: 1. Ecce Homo, or the written body 2. Type-writing Nietzsche's self Part II. Intending the Nonrelational: 3. Tearing at the texture 4. Cutting in on distance Part III. Coming into Relation: 5. Floundering in determination 6. Tuned to accord 7. Canonizing measures 8. 'Like the Rose - without why' 9. Perhaps: a modality? Part IV. Rhythm and Zigzag: 10. On the nonadequate trait 11. Joining the text 12. On re-presentation Part V. Relation at the Crossroads: 13. reading chiasms 14. 'A relation called 'literary" 15. The felicities of paradox Notes Index.
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