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By Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Profusely illustrated with positive cases of architectural experimentation during the centuries, Experiencing structure manages to express the highbrow pleasure of exceptional layout. From teacups, driving boots, golfing balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of the Peking wintry weather Palace, the writer levels over the less-familiar byways of designing excellence. At one time, writes Rasmussen, "the complete neighborhood software half in forming the dwellings and implements they used. the person used to be in fruitful touch with this stuff; the nameless homes have been equipped with a normal feeling for position, fabrics and use and the end result was once a remarkably appropriate comeliness. this day, in our hugely civilized society, the homes which usual individuals are doomed to dwell in and gaze upon are most likely with out caliber. we won't, although, return to the previous approach to individually supervised handicrafts. We needs to attempt to develop by means of arousing curiosity in and figuring out of the paintings the architect does. the foundation of efficient professionalism is a sympathetic and a professional crew of amateurs, of non-professional artwork lovers."
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The traits that distinguish Spinozist rationalism from Cartesian rationalism are of special importance to what follows; an ongoing debate about the distinction is in fact one of the central threads of the story. ” But Husserl’s choice of title also indirectly points to the significance of Spinozism. For phenomenology was quickly assimilated to a Cartesian framework in France, which meant that it became a matter of focusing on the phenomenon of subjectivity and a subject’s encounter with, or embeddedness in, the world.
It means taking seriously a conviction shared by all the protagonists of this volume—that in the end philosophical arguments are regarded as persuasive not because they seem useful but because they seem right. . Here, however, we alight on the driving tension of the narrative: the desire nevertheless to derive something useful from a philosophy that seems to be correct. For with the exception of the dispute between Alquié and Gueroult, which serves as a kind of abstract distillation of the philosophical disagreement at the heart of the story, each valorization of Spinozist rationalism is accompanied by a problematic attempt to generate a politics out of this rationalism.
In a preface written for a posthumous collection of Cavaillès’s writings, Aron recounts a memorable exchange in London with his erstwhile classmate at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Whereas others invoked partisan imperatives, be they communist, socialist, or democratic, to justify their Resistance activity or pointed instead to a general notion of national honor, for Cavaillès the Resistance was simply a question of necessity: “‘I’m a Spinozist,’ he said; ‘we must resist, fight, and confront death.