Thanks, Russell, for this interesting reference. But the question still remains: what is so new about this crisis?
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> The speculative realists would have the crisis as corellationism, and see the answer as an object oriented ontology.
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> On 27/11/2011, at 9:20 PM, "Henry M. Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi all
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>> A philosophical query: in postmodern/contemporary cultural theory one comes across the notion of a 'crisis of representation.' Yet is this a new phenomenon? Isn't there already a 'crisis of representation' with Plato's allegory of the cave, and later, with Kant's concept of the noumenon, with the unrepresentability of the thing itself ('das Ding an sich') ? So in this respect, what would be new about this crisis today?
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>> Thanks for all your thoughts,
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>> Henry
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