Reviving Habit: Félix Ravaisson's Practical Metaphysics

Shapiro, Kam

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“…In other words, habit extends the bodies capacities rather than dampens or curtails them. As Shapiro (2009) suggests, habit is an abiding resource for adaptation, ‘the ability to receive, prepare and transform difference’ (no page).…”

Section: Habitual Consciousnessmentioning

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Consciousness as claiming: Practice and habit in an enigmatic world

Rose

2018

Environ Plan D

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There has been increasing interest in recent years on the non-cognitive nature of human existence. Self-conscious thought and reflective action are no longer seen to be the defining feature of the human condition nor an anchor for social life. On the contrary, material practice and habitual engagements are the abiding mechanisms by which everyday life is sutured. One of the consequences of this perspective is its abbreviated conception of human consciousness. In the literature on habit and practical engagement, consciousness is conceptualised primarily in terms of self-perception and awareness. The aim of this article is to put forth the thesis that human consciousness is not just an awareness of the self – it is also a ‘claim’. Drawing upon the psycho-analytic work of Jean Laplanche, the paper argues that consciousness emerges as subjects reckon with existential problems that are as imminent to everyday life as the concrete problems and practical tasks. In this framing, consciousness emerges as a desire to claim oneself as a self in the face of problems that exceed our practical capacities. Consciousness is a claim in the sense that it marks a desire to be a self-standing, self-possessed subject, within a precarious and enigmatic world.

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Section: Habitual Consciousnessmentioning

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Consciousness as claiming: Practice and habit in an enigmatic world

Rose

2018

Environ Plan D

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“…the very sign of human freedom'. 62 From the first pages of his book, Ravaisson makes it clear that habit belongs to organic life as such and not merely to human life. But he also indicates that human beings 'are distinguished by their ability to contract a multiplicity of habits from duration'.…”

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Habits, style and how to wear them lightly

Hynes

Sharpe

2014

cultural geographies

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Contributing to cultural geography's emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern is with the relationship between habit and the stylisation of self that can be witnessed in the production of the intellectual subject. Paying particular attention to the relationship he traces between habit, consciousness and the effort that defines subjectivity, we explore the implications of Ravaisson's understanding of habit for the work of style, understood as an integration of habits and dispositions into a manner of being. By exploring the question of intellectual style in the work of Alain Badiou, Michel Foucault and Friedrich Nietzsche, we consider what the implications might be of performing that task of integration lightly, without the lofty weightiness that often attends intellectual life.

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Remembering the Future — Utopia, Empire, and Harmony in 21st-Century International Theory

Callahan

2004

European Journal of International Relations

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Using a comparative approach to international relations theory, this article examines how ancient ideas are being recycled to describe world order in the 21st century. In particular, it provides a thick description of three models of utopia in global politics -Great Harmony and Harmonywith-difference from China, and Empire from Hardt and Negri. Using an unexplored set of Chinese-language texts, the article first excavates how Communist Party intellectuals in China have been writing about the ancient Confucian ideal of Great Harmony as a way of promoting the People's Republic of China's role as a Great Power in the 21st century. Second, it uses Hardt and Negri's deterritorialized concept of Empire to criticize Great Harmony discourse as a transcendent and state-centric model of world order. Hardt and Negri's notion of immanent utopia is elaborated in the third section using another set of Chinese texts that describe the flexible methodology of 'Harmony-with-difference'. The article concludes that Harmony-with-difference provides a practical logic for achieving Hardt and Negri's immanent utopia. The article contributes two things to international relations theory -(1) using Chineselanguage texts, it broadens the reach of comparative international relations theory and (2) it uses the concept of Empire to challenge Chinese concepts of harmony, while using Chinese theory to elaborate on Hardt and Negri's utopia. In this way, the article shows how key texts have productively recycled the classical concepts of utopia, empire, and harmony as a way of remembering the future for the 21st century.KEY WORDS ♦ China ♦ empire ♦ harmony ♦ international relations theory ♦ utopia Hegemony in the world system is not just a product of material power, either in terms of military strength or economic prosperity. World leadership

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Reviving Habit: Félix Ravaisson's Practical Metaphysics

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Consciousness as claiming: Practice and habit in an enigmatic world

Consciousness as claiming: Practice and habit in an enigmatic world

Habits, style and how to wear them lightly

Remembering the Future — Utopia, Empire, and Harmony in 21st-Century International Theory

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