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Lyotard's Immiscible Modes of Meaning: the plasticity of sensation and cognition and its significance for understanding Lyotard's relation to Hegel

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posted on 2021-01-29, 19:12 authored by ELKA YASMIN JOYCE SADLER
The thesis defends the position that there are significant points of agreement shared by Lyotard and Hegel regarding the relation of sensation and cognition. It argues that Hegel and Lyotard recognise a fundamental temporal difference between sensory, unconscious, ‘thought’ and subjective cognition/thinking. However, for Lyotard, Hegel’s sense-certainty dialectic erases this difference. To protect a free domain of sensory meaning from Hegelian idealism, Lyotard conceptualises an anti-dialectical sense – concept relation. I argue that Lyotard’s formula retains elements of a mind-body dualism which causes the problem of ineffability to arise. I address this problem by uncovering specific post-Kantian intersections between Hegel and Lyotard.

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Principal supervisor

Alison Ross

Additional supervisor 1

Dr Gene Flenady

Year of Award

2021

Department, School or Centre

School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies

Course

Master of Arts

Degree Type

MASTERS

Campus location

Australia

Faculty

Faculty of Arts

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