why is infinity terrifying to the modern west?a brief analysis from foucault’s present ontology
The infinite is uncomfortable, it plays and destroys enumerations and lists, it escapes questions about its extension and time, it disfigures the limits between the other-self and the otherness of the original and the copy slowly but chaotically dissolves. His analysis is complex, but one way to app...
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Cátedra B de Problemas Epistemológicos de la Psicología de la Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterocronias/article/view/42152 |
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| Sumario: | The infinite is uncomfortable, it plays and destroys enumerations and lists, it escapes questions about its extension and time, it disfigures the limits between the other-self and the otherness of the original and the copy slowly but chaotically dissolves. His analysis is complex, but one way to approach it is with the question: What is infinity and why does it become terrifying? The Ontology of the present proposed by Kant and analyzed by Foucault can shed light on that darkness (although one would have to wonder why they are necessary). Kant can be thought of as the modern author par excellence since he allows us to think about the subject-object separation thanks to perspective (Minhot,2011: 9), but the question about his time does not go unnoticed.This brief work aims to approach infinity and the linguistic disfigurement that his terrifying figure entails, based on what Foucault analyzed; the author deals with the interplay between the infinite and its present as an ontological response. |
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