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684 - Scandals of Temporality - A mirror that reflects perplexity, time has been scandalous, more so since the Baroque. This course invites inquiry into the major scandals of temporality from the Brahmins, Rabbis and the Greeks up to the present. Between the limits of the time that devours and the one that lets itself be measured, vastly different and damned to interconnectedness regimes of temporality will be looked at: physical time, universal time, eternity, aion, kairos, chronos, nihil, a priori time, the time of experience and the event. The course is divided into four sections, the first two of which carry a subsection each:
- Categori(c)al time: Aristotle, Physics; Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
- Versions of scientific time: classical (Galileo, Newton)
and non-classical (Einstein, Heisenberg, Hawking)
- Versions of scientific time: classical (Galileo, Newton)
- Theological time: Vedic and Biblical preludes; the Cappadocian Fathers,
Augustine, Aquinas, Eckhart- Prophetic and melancholy times: Nietzsche, Benjamin
- Time ontological: Heidegger, Being and Time; Nancy, Birth to Presence
- RepeatEvent: Kirkegaard, Repetition; Deleuze, Logic of Sense & Difference and Repetition; Borges (several ficciones), Badiou, L'Etre et l'événement
Readings will be excerpted from the above titles and from secondary literature.
