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The obscure object of transdisciplinarity: Adorno on the essay form

Dossier: Romantic Transdisciplinarity 2

...ion contains Dossier ROMANTIC TRANSDISCIPLINARIT Y 2 The obscure object of transdisciplinarity Adorno on the essay form Antonia birnbaum The articles in this dossier complete the publications from the ‘Romantic Transdisciplinarity’ section of the AHRC‑funded project ‘Trans‑disciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts’ (AH/1004378/1), located within the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston...

Introduction

Dossier: Romantic Transdisciplinarity 1

...tualizing such a practice – for all their current enthusiasm for the term ‘transdisciplinarity’ – remains moot. Perhaps only a Romantic bureaucrat can save them at this point. Notes 1. ^ See Peter Osborne, ‘Philosophy After Theory: Transdisciplinarity and the New’, in Jane Elliott and Derek Attridge, eds, Theory After ‘Theory’, Routledge, London and New York, 20111, pp. 19–33. 2. ^ Friedrich Schlegel, ‘On Goethe’s Meister’ (1798), in J.M. Bernstei...

The dream is a fragment: Freud, transdisciplinarity and early German Romanticism

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...psychoanalysis itself. It is one of the achievements of psychoanalysis as transdisciplinarity: its romantic transdisciplinarity, we might say. Notes This article is an output from the AHRC‑funded project ‘Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts’ (AH/1004378/1), 2011–2013, located within the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. 1. ^ Peter Osborne, Anywhere or...

Bildung and strategy: The fate of the ‘beautiful sciences’

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...ty of Berlin and the reforms of the Prussian state and army. This romantic transdisciplinarity was the intensification of a fusion of rhetoric and philosophy inaugurated in the ‘beautiful sciences’ of the mid-eighteenth century, which would suffer that strange fate of becoming the complementary discourses of Bildung and Strategy. Notes This article is an output from the AHRC-funded project ‘Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods...

The reproach of abstraction

...y to a philosophically reflective form of transdisciplinarity. It is only a transdisciplinarity such as this, I believe, that can rescue the idea of philosophy as a discourse of universal mediation from the corrosive critiques of its claims to an absolute universality, familiar in recent years in various pragmatist, historicist, contextualist and deconstructive forms. As Ricoeur once put it: Philosophical discourse achieves universality only by pas...

Genre without genre: Romanticism, the novel and the new

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...f the novel as the ‘epic form’ of a capitalist world per se. [64] Literary transdisciplinarity Let me come back finally, then, to my central issue. It is not a facile question of asserting the primacy of the prosaic over the poetic, or vice versa, in historical understandings of the novel as the modern ‘genre without genre’. Rather, it is a question of pointing out the ways in which it is precisely the ‘collision’ between the two, as Hegel terms i...

The concept of metropolis: Philosophy and urban form

...processes through which such form is reproduced. Hence, the necessity of a transdisciplinarity in the formation of a ʻproject of totalityʼ, which philosophy itself cannot accomplish, reliant on the collaborative intersection of a range of forms of knowledge, which would seek to trace the intersectional relations of the metropolis itself. [44] If therefore the metropolis presents itself as a form of (real) abstraction, and is only ʻunifiedʼ as such,...

Kunstchaos: Incompletion, reversibility and fragmentary montage

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...l art.’ [41] notes This article is an output from the AHRC‑funded project ‘Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts’ (AH/1004378/1), 2011–2013, located within the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London 1. ^ Novalis, Werke, Tagebücher und Briefe Friedrich von Hardenberg’s, hsgb Hans‑Joachim Mähl and Richard Samuel, t. II, Das philosophisch-theoretische Werk, Carl H...

Adorno and the Weather: Critical Theory in an Era of Climate Change

...hy (CRMEP), Kingston University London, as part of the AHRC-funded project Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities, with additional support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. and so on. The guidelines here are respect for the environment, for other human beings, for other species. Admirable though these guidelines are, they are nevertheless not entirely unproblematic. For one thing, it could be argued that the ecology movement tends...

What is a problematic?: Dossier: Bachelard and the Concept of Problematic

Dossier: Bachelard and the Concept of Problematic

...the second day of the first Workshop in the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts’, organized by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, at Dorich House, Kingston University London, 25–26 January 2012.there is not, on the one hand, the world, divided into large ontic domains (matter, life, etc.), each one characterized by a certain number of properties or laws t...

The postconceptual condition: Or, the cultural logic of high capitalism today

...e Osborne, Anywhere or Not At Al , pp. 18–22. 32. ^ For the problematic of transdisciplinarity in the humanities, see Peter Osborne, ‘Problematizing Disciplines, Transdisciplinary Problematics’, forthcoming in a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society: Transdisciplinary Problematics, eds, Peter Osborme, Éric Al iez and Stel a Sandford. 33. ^ Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hul otKentor, Athlone Press, London, 1997, pp. 2–3; Ä...

Faust on film: Walter Benjamin and the cinematic ontology of Goethe’s Faust 2

...adition of visual studies. Against this, Cunningham emphasizes an inherent transdisciplinarity by tracing the importance of post-romantic theories of the literary and poetic image for Benjamin and the avantgarde (see David Cunningham, ‘Photography and the Literary Conditions of Surrealism’, in David Cunningham, Andrew Fisher and Sas Mays, eds, Photography and Literature in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005)...

Also Sprach Zapata: Philosophy and resistance

...omsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH 22–23 march 2012 10.00–17.00 French Institute transdisciplinarity project, workshop 2 Case Studies 1 – Transdisciplinary Texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Capitalism and Schizophrenia 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT Speakers include Ackbar Abbas (Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine) Éric Alliez (CRMEP, Kingston/Philosophy, University of Paris 8) Marc Berdet (Sociology, University of Paris...

Romantic bureaucracy: Alexander Kojève’s post-historical wisdom

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...ratic order. Notes This article is an output from the AHRC-funded project ‘Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts’ (AH/1004378/1), 2011–2013, located within the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. 1. ^ Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’, Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY and London, 1980. 2. ^...

Michel Serres, 1930–2019

...a philosophy of networks (epistemological and cybernetic) and a theory of transdisciplinarity. From the start, Serres’s epistemology was programmed to dissolve itself, not in the autonomy of each self-regulated science but in the heteronomy of ‘inter-objective’ communications: objects speak: ‘Here I enter the circuit only by integrating the fundamental communication network drawn up by the object-object diagram. When reflexive epistemology become...

DOSSIER: Bachelard and the Concept of Problematic

...the second day of the first Workshop in the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts’, organized by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, at Dorich House, Kingston University London, 25–26 January 2012. What is a problematic? Patrice Maniglier Gaston Bachelard’s 1949 book, Le Rationalisme appliqué (RA; best translated as Reason Applied), is essential to an unders...

183 Reviews: Peter Hallward and Knox Peden, eds, Concept and Form, Volume 1: Key Texts from the ‘Cahiers pour l’analyse’ Peter Hallward and Knox Peden, eds, Concept and Form Volume 2: Interviews and Essays on the ‘Cahiers pour l’analyse’ Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life Peter Sloterdijk, The Art of Philosophy Finn Brunton, Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey, Evil Media Pete Jordan, In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist T.J. Clark, Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica Gert Biesta, Julie Allan and Richard Edwards, eds, Making a Difference in Theory: The Theory Question in Education and the Education Question in Theory Uncertain Commons, Speculate This!

...der impasses of theory in education and therefore address the anxiety over transdisciplinarity at the centre of these debates. The question of theory’s own insufficiency is the question of critical theory as conceived by the philosophers associated with the first generation of the Frankfurt School in the 1930s. The realization that this question cannot be addressed without simultaneously reflecting upon the historical and material conditions which...