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This ebook extends philosophy’s engagement with the double past hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as an important ontological situation or determine that will get represented, enacted, and played many times and in a myriad of configurations. Seitz means that the double in all of its types is concurrently philosophy’s shadow, its nemesis, and the of its hazard. This e-book expands definitions and investigations of the double past the confines of philosophy, suggesting that the concept that is at paintings in lots of different fields together with politics, cultural narratives, literature, mythology, and psychology. Seitz ways the double through a chain of case stories and by way of enticing loosely in eidetic version, a methodological maneuver borrowed from phenomenology. The e-book explores the ways that wide-ranging circumstances of the double are hooked up by way of the dynamics of intersubjectivity.

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But the double disrupts this desire. Coming before philosophy and exceeding philosophy’s desire to domesticate it, the double is not confined to dualisms or hierarchized binary oppositions but in its wilder manifestations appears in the form of obscure twinnings and hauntings, uncanny ingeminations, strange, often shady substitutions, oneiric images, and elliptical couplings and conjunctions that tend to render the conceptual apparatuses introduced and offered by tradition inadequate and frequently frustrating if not ultimately futile.

And why 38 B. SEITZ does Plato introduce them and then glide right over them, as if he were pretending to take them for granted? —since they would not be able to handle and manipulate things were they in constraints, nor would they be able to stoke the fires (who carries the firewood? is a question an aristocrat in a slave economy might have forgotten to ask). ). Two kinds of people? People or not (politician’s tools, whomever), the shadowmasters are a force, and this second force is necessary in order to make the shadow world possible—in order to introduce some light into pitch black—and while Plato must relegate the shadowmasters to the shade, they themselves are not shadows, nor are they in the shadows that they make dance on the wall.

Its shape-shifting ubiquity and persistent intrusion suggest both its necessity and the way in which it fuels, exceeds, and eludes philosophy itself. Philosophy finds power and security in the double but from it simultaneously inherits countless forms of dependence, instability, and insecurity. *** I will introduce the problem of the double in philosophy first by addressing some twentieth-century philosophy and then by focusing primarily on patterns exhibited in selective passages of texts by two archetypal luminaries, Plato and Kant.

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