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... and the transcendent in a novel and counterintuitive dynamic. This constitutes Wittgenstein’s most significant contribution to the study of the ordinary: a demarcation between language as the domain of the ordinary and mystery as the realm of meaning. The intricate interrelationship of these realms animates...

...- page In the Realms of the Unreal, an illustrated fantasy of literally epic proportions (the unabridged title tells it all: The Story of the Viv- ian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebel- lion), is a work...

... could no longer be seen to represent the entirety of the realm of Being; since God's powers were unlimited, his power to create could not have been exhausted by what was already present in the existing world. The cosmology of the Middle Ages did not possess, as did Aristotle's, a complete...

... activity. Recently, Nancy has placed considerable em- phasis on the distinction between the realm of politics (as the an- 124 qui parle spring/summer 2014 vol. 22, no. 2 tagonistic realm of determinate sociohistorical situatedness) and its existential outside, arguing strongly...

... risks a mis- reading by conceiving essence in some hypostatized fashion. Santayana, tike his mentor and sometime antagonist William James, stresses the immediacy and the indeterminacy of experi- ence, the irrationality of existence. His realm of essence is a man- ifold of possible "forms...

... three. Would a completely open cosmology such as Deleuze describes permit even more freedom, or does this require giving up the progress toward intensification and complexity? Ṣadrā’s conception of the imaginal realm is both a help and a hindrance for thinking about creativity. It helps account...

..., a magical enclosure that points inward to individual intentions and outward to sociological commonplaces. In this realm, authorial skin tends not only to reference physical matter but also to delineate an interpretative space of transit to already known truisms about race, class, and gender. In Skin Film...

... as an American writer. But beyond that his life and thought are entirely Qui Park, Vol. 15, No. 1 Fall/VVinter 2004 148 GLENN TILLER cosmopolitan. His greatest philosophical work, the introductory text Scepticism and Animal Faith and the four-volume Realms of Being...

.... See Bacon and Sylvester, “Interview 7,” 162–64 . 80. Stivale, “Comments on a Meeting with Deleuze,” 232 . 81. Deleuze’s engagement with Foucault’s three specific axes, which constitute three realms, is a decisive preliminary work for his theory of the three specific planes...

... supposed elitism simply misses the mark. Much more is at stake, for only in the realm of lyric poetry does this surprising elective affinity surface. With respect to music, prose, and drama, the representative names that form Adorno's canon are all but restorative: Schonberg, Kafka...

... it to oneself, to the one representing it, and to force it back into this relationship to oneself as the normative realm. Wherever this happens, man ‘gets into picture’ in prece- dence over whatever is” (“aw,” 153). Modernity is thereby also the age that fi rst gives birth to humanism...

... by that individual as a grid or guide for the work of tracing out (articulating) awareness of some other realm" (67). 172 BOOK REVIEW The theory of musical affordance focuses on how actors appropriate music to their own ends, making connections, as Lucy puts it, between...

... mechanism of control that should be resisted and overcome, Benjamin never constructed the visual as a separate realm, but weaved it into the textual in a way that obliges his read- ers (spectators) to look for the visual, to look at the visual, and then to go back and forth...

... in favor of a different one, namely, the relative exchange value among commodities themselves. So it is in departing from the realm of production to the realm of exchange that the religious “conversion” occurs. Marx continues: [A] commodity is therefore a mysterious thing...

... of the “marvelous.” In the literature on French early modern opera, the marvelous has largely been framed in terms of its relationship to the precepts of “classical” theater. While in the spoken tragedy— Racine’s Phèdre (1677), for instance—the supersensible realm is banned from the stage...

... outside this realm of instrumentality, bureaucratized life and its complementary mass culture. That it can do so is due to art's peculiar economy, founded on its resistance to mechanical reproduction. That resistance can be seen most clearly in the tactics used by artists and dealers...

... in all realms— from everyday France to early- modern colonies to mystic shores. When the classical allusion reappears in the revised version of “Mystic Speech” that introduces the fi rst volume of The Mystic Fable (published in French in 1982 and in a posthumous English...

... in the fi rst place. More than simply anthropocentric, this choice can be defi ned as logocentric. It goes back to the complex point at which Greek philosophy is seen to privilege the connection between voice and speech, thus imprisoning voice in the realm of logos...

... tapestries wherein Sharpe quilts her work—across Black studies, ethnic studies, feminist theory, media theory, and archival work, to name a few—regular exposure to the nature of one’s own marginalization becomes suffocating. For so long it was thought that an escape from this realm of subjugation was some...

.... Humanity no longer looks to nature, to the cosmos, to discern its place in the realm of Being; rather, it looks to the world of things, created sola humana arte Also important for our point is that the Idiot explicitly contrasts his own "achievement...