Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard.
Dir. Sam Sorich. Prod. Sam Sorich and Trevor Cribben Merrill. Glass Darkly Films, 2024. YouTube (Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard) 25 Dec. 2024.* (Anthropology, Mimetic desire, Rivalry, Violence, Scapegoats, Sacred, Ritual, Communities, Christianity, Biblical exegesis)
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This is a note criticizing some aspects of Jacques Derrida's theory of semiotics and meaning in 'White Mythology', especially on the subject of metaphor, from the standpoint of an interactionalist and perspectivist theory of signification.
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1 Pages Posted: 2 Jan 2025
Date Written: March 20, 1989
Keywords: Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction, Semiotics, Metaphor, Signification, Interactionalism, Perspectivism
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García Landa, José Ángel. "Derrida, 'White Mythology', Metaphor and Perspective." Word file, Brown U, 1989.*
_____. "Derrida, 'White Mythology', Metaphor and Perspective." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa. 2004.*
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/derrida.html
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http://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/derrida.html
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_____. "Derrida, 'White Mythology', Metaphor and Perspective." SSRN 2 Jan. 2025.*
https://ssrn.com/abstract=5003956
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Aquí, igualito que Krapp, repasando mis registros de hace diez años, o de hace veinte. Si algo me diferencia de él, es que ya no hago álbumes de fotos. Ahora las mejores van juntas con las peores, como en el mundo. Fotos, todavía hago. Y refotos, y retroposts.
Por Dios lo que hay que oír. Luego nos quejamos de que junten "negacionistas" y "terraplanistas." En fin, qué se le va a hacer. Cada cual cree en lo que Dios le da a entender... y razonar, desde luego, no hace mella en las creencias, si están bien asentadas. Que sean verdaderas o falsas, racionales o disparatadas, es lo mismo y da lo mismo.
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Make no mistake: the Western world is in the midst of several concurrent crises. But, thanks to the democratic mandates issued by the people in 2024, there is hope.@CourageMedia___ https://t.co/UHZnwtOn1I pic.twitter.com/z3woioCM7n
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@Ayaan) December 31, 2024
Notes taken by José Angel García Landa, c. 1985.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria: or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions. Edited with an introduction by George Watson. (Everyman's Library; Essays, 11). London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1975. XXIV, 303 p.
Introduction by George Watson
Biographia Literaria is an answer to "Wordsworth's" 1800 preface to Lyrical Ballads, inspired by himself. —> (x): "the sharpness of a middle-aged man disagreeing with his youth". In the Preface, 2 questions: the relationship of the language and of the subjects of poetry to those of ordinary life. Biographia was in the making since 1800, written 1815, published 1817. Deliberate biographical form, adapted to himself, intense personalism, admits the fragmentary and inconclusive. Letter to Richard Sharp, 16 Jan. 1804: (xii): "Imagination, or the modifying power in the highest sense of the word, in which I have ventured to oppose it to Fancy, or the aggregating power". For Wordsworth, it was an incisive restatement of an ancient value-judgment. Biographia Literaria was dismissed by reviewers and Wordsworth, but appreciated by Keats and Shelley. (xix): "Design and purpose have been denied in it, and yet its greatest originality is its design"; " (xix) "he suceeds for the first and (so far) for the last time in English criticism in marrying the twin studies of philosophy and literature, not simply by writing about both within the bounds of a single book or by insisting that such a marriage should be, but in discovering a causal link between the two in the century-old preoccupation of English critics with the theory of the poet's imagination." Chapters 10 & 11 are "a lamentable exhibition of cold feet". Too fussy. Concern with imagination comes from Hobbes & Dryden in the 17th c., but (xx) "Hobbes was too much of a professional philosopher to indulge his literary interests except as a hobby; Dryden too much of a professional man of letters to offfer more than a brilliant aside on the subject; and the eighteenth-century aestheticians (Addison, Burke, Kames Reynolds, Beattie and many others) were dilettants in criticism, coiners of theories that never found currency. Johnson managed to write the critical masterpiece of the age, the Lives of the Poets, without once referring to the theories of any of them." The 1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads starts a new aesthetic.
Coleridge vs. criticism as evaluation. His aim: "to reduce criticism to a system by the deduction of causes from principles involved in our faculties" (Coleridge).
Biographia Literaria
1. The superiority of an austerer and more natural style. Homer & Demosthenes, over Virgil & Cicero. Poetry has a logic of its own as severe as that of science: "to the truly great poets ... there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word."
To be continued...
Gisbert, Rubén, et al. "Cronología del agua el día de la DANA en Valencia con Pilar Esquinas." Video interview. YouTube (Rubén Gisbert) 30 Dec. 2024.* (Floods, Agendas, Conspiracies, Massacres, Misgovernment, Incompetence, Hydrography, Organized crime, Cover-ups, water management, Grifters).
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