Most interesting choice of text for the first fall course! My search for the emperors lurks in the background and I am enjoying the read of Worlds Built to Fall Apart. I read a lot of sci fi mixed with magical realism as a kid, but never got to P.K.Dick. Lots to think about with fascinating new connections.
oh good - i’m glad you’re finding it interesting. seems like it’s just sitting there waiting for me… the connections are there. I did read PKD but I’m not sure what or how much. back then i just grabbed whatever was on the shelves - i was not discerning.
Like a lot of people, I've run into some synchronicity with PKD stuff, which is a bit out of my wheelhouse, too...but my synchronicity (and work) tends to revolve around Platonist currents, so I looked it up and surprisingly/unsurprisingly PKD had Platonist influences. I'll be curious what you discover!
I looked Stephen Muecke up on scholar.google.com. He's a very interesting guy. Anyway, one thing leads to another: https://sciencespo.hal.science/file/index/docid/1054002/filename/98-souriau-gb.pdf It's an essay by Bruno Latour, translated by Stephen Muecke, published in 2011, so predates The Inquiry book of 2013. Latour focusses in on "instauration" which he sees as Souriau's key philosophical innovation. This is over my head really, but it does seem pivotal, albeit a mostly forgotten pivot of our generation. Did Corbin pick up on Souriau's work, I wonder? Unlikely as Les Différents modes d'existence was published in 1943 when HC in was in Istanbul immersed in Suhrawardi. Still, there is another reading of Corbin to be had here, don't you think?
I found your ref in TWTIO chpt 7, The Angelic Function of Beings, to the long note pp 290-293 in Creative Imagination where Corbin instaures his sympathy with Souriau. I've read those amazing pages several times and can't help feeling that there is a resonance here, especially when quoting Souriau on the creative act, with those extraordinary Russian thinkers Nikolai Berdyaev and his mentor Vladimir Solovyev that Hadi Fakhoury has revealed. Souriau's Modes was published in 1925 so would have been accessible to the pre-war Russian emigre intellectuals in Paris.
Oh, Erik Davis. I thought you meant Stuart Davis, KenWilberian pop musician and now a podcaster about alien encounters.
Oh! yeah I should have thought of being specific!
Most interesting choice of text for the first fall course! My search for the emperors lurks in the background and I am enjoying the read of Worlds Built to Fall Apart. I read a lot of sci fi mixed with magical realism as a kid, but never got to P.K.Dick. Lots to think about with fascinating new connections.
oh good - i’m glad you’re finding it interesting. seems like it’s just sitting there waiting for me… the connections are there. I did read PKD but I’m not sure what or how much. back then i just grabbed whatever was on the shelves - i was not discerning.
Like a lot of people, I've run into some synchronicity with PKD stuff, which is a bit out of my wheelhouse, too...but my synchronicity (and work) tends to revolve around Platonist currents, so I looked it up and surprisingly/unsurprisingly PKD had Platonist influences. I'll be curious what you discover!
Yeah, me too… It’s a connection to my childhood for me - I read nothing but Sci-fi until I went to college…
Hello Tom, This is an interesting review of Etienne Souriau; makes lots of interesting connections: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/journey-through-the-worlds/
Oh nice! Thanks for letting me know about this. I hadn’t seen it.
I looked Stephen Muecke up on scholar.google.com. He's a very interesting guy. Anyway, one thing leads to another: https://sciencespo.hal.science/file/index/docid/1054002/filename/98-souriau-gb.pdf It's an essay by Bruno Latour, translated by Stephen Muecke, published in 2011, so predates The Inquiry book of 2013. Latour focusses in on "instauration" which he sees as Souriau's key philosophical innovation. This is over my head really, but it does seem pivotal, albeit a mostly forgotten pivot of our generation. Did Corbin pick up on Souriau's work, I wonder? Unlikely as Les Différents modes d'existence was published in 1943 when HC in was in Istanbul immersed in Suhrawardi. Still, there is another reading of Corbin to be had here, don't you think?
oh yes yes Souriau is huge for Corbin. That’s one of the most interesting connection at the root here!
I found your ref in TWTIO chpt 7, The Angelic Function of Beings, to the long note pp 290-293 in Creative Imagination where Corbin instaures his sympathy with Souriau. I've read those amazing pages several times and can't help feeling that there is a resonance here, especially when quoting Souriau on the creative act, with those extraordinary Russian thinkers Nikolai Berdyaev and his mentor Vladimir Solovyev that Hadi Fakhoury has revealed. Souriau's Modes was published in 1925 so would have been accessible to the pre-war Russian emigre intellectuals in Paris.
and by the way i’ve run across Muecke several times… he translated something of interest but now I forget what…
oh nice! that’s a very good suggestion!