Intersubjectivity and the Double Troubled Matters
This book extends philosophy’s engagement with the double beyond hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as a necessary ontological condition or figure that gets represented, enacted, and performed repeatedly and in a myriad
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Brian Seitz
Intersubjectivity and the Double
Brian Seitz
Intersubjectivity and the Double Troubled Matters
Brian Seitz Arts & Humanities Babson College Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-56374-3 ISBN 978-1-137-56375-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56375-0
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For Fiona Maguire Your feet on the ground, my head in the clouds
PREFACE
REQUISITES OF THE DOUBLE When I was an undergraduate, I was taught that there was such a thing as dualism, and that, along with dichotomies more generally, it might be a bad thing, theories riddled with determinative fissures propping them up while at the same time dooming them (Descartes was held up as Exhibit A). At the time, I lacked interest in this concept as a problem, which I also suspected was mostly an analytic philosopher’s game, the sort of game that held no appeal to me. So while I was vaguely aware that there was a debate about dualisms in some philosophy circles, my interest in it was displaced onto other spheres of philosophy and in particular to observing with both fascination and alarm the acute and yet mesmerizing dichotomy that lay coiled like a worm in the heart of Being and Nothingness, Sartre’s tome in which the game is about existence. Around the same time, I also read Hegel’s, The Science of Logic, during the course of which I suffered a certain vexed and dismissive impatience with Hegel, who fancied moving toward a very baroque and comprehensive resolution of juxtapositions, which is to say that Hegel thought he had mastered the double (mastery being another prominent philosophy game). I understood that while Sartre’s model was derive
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