Thursday, April 28, 2005

A Note on Method and Representation

In particular, it should not be forgotten that the division into embryology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, sociology and clinical medicine does not exist in nature

The elementary point here being that: The categories of the understanding are never simply ‘given’ in the object understood. Indeed..

It is the scandalous power of the understanding to sunder (and thus render intelligible) what had been whole and entire.

The categories of the understanding thus require laborious construction. The structure of, the relations between these categories may be radically at variance with the contours of what is understood.

Thus, understanding first quarters and ‘destroys’ (‘murders’) the thing in order to divulge its meaning which then stands separate and complete like the rewards of plunder.

mmm??

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