Single Price - $23.95 Purchase with Part 2: The Wonder of the Earth for the price of $44.95 Contents Additional Information Contents Preface: Word as Image Bennett. Image sees, feels, acts. Word as image. Introduction: World as Phenomenon Nietzsche. World as aesthetic phenomenon questions every name. Nature. Life, gods, beauty. Exposition. Calling, giving. Image calls, gives, feels, expresses. Ethics, aesthetics. Inclusion, exclusion. Wonder. Exposition...: exposure as expression, calling; as aisthēsis, mimēsis, poiēsis, catachrēsis, technē ; as image, aesthetics, beauty, art; calling as giving. God’s unconditional love. Genesis. Image of God. Inclusion, exclusion of women. Image proliferates. In the plural. Image mother or father, both mother and father, neither mother nor father. Child. Hyperreality. Language excludes. Expressions of necessity and resistance. Plato. Derrida. Foucault. Deleuze, Guattari. Lyotard. Bataille. Levinas. Irigaray. Ross. Spinoza. Schelling. Marx. Nietzsche. Blanchot. Nancy. Griffin. Nāgārjuna. Art, aesthetic. Derrida. Temptation. Choice. Learn to live. Inheritance, generations, ghosts. Pandora’s gift. Heidegger. World picture. Eagleton. Aesthetic. Caesura. Heidegger. Saving power. Hyde. Gift. Harris. So Shy Sherri. Heidegger. Strife. Rift. Perhaps. As if. Image sees, interrupts, proliferates, betrays, for gives. 1 World as Image Plato. Timaeus. World. Image of the whole. Moving image of eternity. Pandora’s image, the earth. Image as unlimit. Image making as betrayal. Images beautiful. Semblances of themselves. Universal as image. Goodman. Symptoms of aesthetic. Sophist. Hunting the sophist. Image cannot be caught. Blanchot. Levels of ambiguity. Goodman. Restrictions restrict contingently. Promise beyond. Image does not resemble, does not image, image of nothing, unimaginable. Refuse choice. Derrida’s temptation. Disparity. Disparition. Foucault. Genealogy. Plato. Mimēsis. Diēgesis. Image beyond images. Proliferates as images. World beautiful as image. Foucault. Emulation. Prose of the world. Convenientia, aemulatio, analogy, sympathy. Signatures. Borges’s Chinese encyclopaedia. Foucault. Binswanger. Dreams. Imagination. Image. Bachelard. Proliferation. 2 Body Images Spinoza. Ethics. Worm in blood. Bari. Pan/Dora. Whole and part. God and Substance. Cause of itself. Conceived through itself. As image. Wittgenstein. Idem est. The same and not the same. Involvit. Embody. As image. Neoplatonism. Berkeley. Esse est percipi. Esse est imago. Body. God and nature as image. Natura naturans, natura naturata. Singular things in succession. Immanence. Everything follows from God. Potentia, potestas. Power. Leibniz. Whitehead. World as aesthetic phenomenon. Bergson. Matter and memory. As images. Body as image. Action as image. Spinoza. Feelings, emotions, affects. Images. Moving image of eternity. Nonbinary. Potestas and potentia. Freedom and teleology. Images and imagination. Inadequate ideas. Adequate ideas of inadequate ideas. Finite adaptation and eternity. Adequate ideas the same, idem est, as inadequate ideas. Necessity and contingency idem est. Truth and necessity of contingency. Expression and exposition.... Mechanism. Quantum mechanics, fractals, chaos theory, evolutionary theory. Necessity and contingency. Theologico Political Treatise. Superstition. Perseverance. Laetitio, unbounded joy. Adaptation. Imagination. Prophecy. Natura naturans, natura naturata. Registers. Planes. General, restricted economy. Democracy. To come. Sovereign power. Disparition. 3 World as Art Schelling. Art as emanation of the absolute. Indifference. Art as image. Immanence. Hegel. Statues corpses. Girl—Pandora?—gathers them as fruits into conscious spirit. Nancy. Muses. Women. Schelling and women. Images of unlimit proliferate images of cultural limits. Totality. Divine nature. System. Indifference. One ideal. Three potencies. Ideal determinations. Unity of absolute indistinguishable from its multiplicity. Disparity. Absolute hegemonic. Absolute as image from which follow all other images. Nāgārjuna, emptiness. Vertical and horizontal dissemination. Necessity and contingency. Caesura. Madness before madness. Beauty, truth, the good indifferent, ferocious. Griffin. Woman speaks with nature. We are made from this earth. We are nature to infinity. Domination, hegemony. Deleuze and Guattari. Kant. Verticality. Disparity. Perhaps, as if. Moments of taste. Whole picture. Blake. Two images of disparition. One eternity, one darkness, endless proliferation. Earth’s abundance. Derrida. Philosophy thinks its other. Schelling. Philosophy of nature, indifferently philosophy. Levinas. Neutral buzzing of being. Lyotard. Beautiful death. Generosity, giving, gifts. Derrida. Impossibility of goodness. Refuse temptation. Absolute eternal affirmation. Images proliferate. Promethean. King. Dirty little secret. Sche-ling. The good itself. Yearning. Privation before totality. Temptation toward solicitation. Good and evil. Freedom in God. Schelling. Spinoza. Spinozism. As if of exposition....Holy madness. Madness of the earth. Loneliness of nature. Caesura. 4 World of Masks Hobbes. Nietzsche. Foucault. Blanchot. Deleuze. Mask as image. Genitive. Palimpsest. We are masks. Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy. Derrida. Inheritance. Nietzsche. Apollinian, Dionsyian. Dreams, intoxication. No choice. Music, laughter. Kant. Caesura. Bergson. Comic. Nietzsche. Socratism. Eternal return. Science. Kant. Hegel. Heidegger. End of art. Derrida. To live finally. Science’s authority. Lownliness. Only science. Only reason. Foucault. Régime of truth. Science ethics aesthetics. Levinas. Ethics. Infinite responsibility. Aesthetics. Everything relevant. Science ethical, aesthetic. To resist temptation, refuse choice. Science Dionysian. Mask, caesura. Schopenhauer. World as representation. Subject, object. Nietzsche. Bodies as subjects. Schopenhauer. Laughter. Masks. Objectification of will. Maya. Silence of will. Nothing. Buddhism. Emptiness. Nāgārjuna. Emptiness of emptiness. Betrayal. Masking masks. Bachelard. Poetic reverie. Image. Nietzsche. Dionysian mask. 5 Calling Calls, calling, from the good. Exposition. Image calls. Image gives. Lyotard. Paganism. I am pagan, pantheist, spiritualist, animist. Schopenhauer. Schelling. Pantheism. Heidegger. Call of conscience. Being guilty. Care. World picture. It gives. Es gibt. Deleuze. Difference and Repetition. Ontological difference. Repetition. Contraction. Possession. Plotinus. Intelligence. Image of One. Proliferation. Production. Contemplation. Generosity. Marx. Repetition. Synthesis. Passive synthesis. Final synthesis. Disparate. Virtual objects. Simulacra. Levinas. Witness, prophecy. Lyotard. Witness. Traitor. Différend. Derrida. Call from nowhere. Affirmation. As if. Perhaps. Answering, responding. Democracy to come. Nancy. Community, political to come. Deleuze. Thought. 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