8. “Of which we cannot speak ...”: Philosophy and the Humanities

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. In Place of Beginning Again ix
4. 1. A Permanent State of Suspension or Deferment 1
5. 2. How Theory Became History 4
6. 3. “Philosophy is not one of the natural sciences” 37
7. 4 “I will teach you diff erences” 46
8. 5. An Assembling of Reminders 54
9. 6. “... a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss- crossing” 61
10. 7. Gedankenwegen: On Import and Interpretation 69
11. 8. “Of which we cannot speak ...”: Philosophy and the Humanities 93
12. 9. What is (Film) Philosophy? 106
13. 10. Order Out of Chaos 117
14. 11. Idea, Image, and Intuition 132
15. 12. The World, Time 159
16. 13. The Ordinary Necessity of Philosophy 179
17. 14. “Art now exists in the condition of philosophy” 186
18. 15. Falling in Love with the World 197
19. 16. Ontology and Desire, or a Moving Response to Skepticism 204
20. 17. Automatism and the Declaration of Existence in Time 216
21. 18. Ethical Practices of the Ordinary 232
22. 19. Perfectionism as Self- Disobedience 239
23. 20. Comedy and Community 246
24. 21. A Digression on Difference and Interpretation 260
25. 22. Perfectionism’s Ironic Transport 266
26. 23. An Elegy for Theory 294
27. Acknowledgments 309
28. Index 311