Marian Hobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 449970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marian Hobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobson |
| SIGNATURE | HOBSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Statues and Statistics
To readers of Of Grammatology , to anyone aware of how apartheid was dealt with in the administration of pre-1990 S. Africa, the relation between classification and violence will seem obvious. I want to suggest that though this may be illuminated by a time of European uprisings and warfare—the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, which is hardly surprising, these also provoke profound changes in administrative tools, in particular, the procedu…
Music and the shape of the dialectic
This paper discusses the prominence given by Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit, to Diderot’s Neveu de Rameau. It locates its cause in the dialogue’s account of the quarrel in contemporary French music, between Italian opéra comique and French opera seria, in particular, Rameau. Hegel makes his account of this section of Diderot’s dialogue his first clearly explicit account of a dialectic operating in culture. The French audiences cannot hear t…
Give us back our eleven days
A major adjustment to the British calendar occurred in 1752. This was the passage from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, inaugurated in the sixteenth century by command of Pope Gregory XIII in the papal dominions, and swiftly followed by much of the rest of Europe. The consequent loss of eleven days in the 'new style' British calendar seems to have provoked a riot. The alternative calendars had been the source of complication in trade and tra…
Diderot
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In Memory of C. M. Johnson
Derrida and Frege
Derrida, for reasons which he never made clear publicly, published his mémoire for the diplôme d'études supérieures only in 1990, some thirty-five years after it had been written. Had it been published much earlier, some of the dispiritingly ill-informed remarks about his work might have been avoided. The mémoire, entitled The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy, reveals that he is, when required, perfectly able to write a standard thesis …
Derrida et Frege
Rousseau et Diderot
Réunissant vingt-trois éminents spécialistes français, suisses et polonais, avec l’adjonction heureuse de Yoshido Iido, (Universités de Grenoble et de Tokyo), ce colloque reprend le chemin de l’article phare de Jean Fabre, « Deux frères ennemis : Diderot et Jean-Jacques » (Diderot Studies, vol. III, 1961, p. 155-213). En effet, une forte tradition de travail lie la France avec la Pologne et Diderot avec Rousseau. Jean Fabre, comme le rappelle Mic…
Rococo Enlightenment? Berlin, Hamann, and Diderot
Criticisms of the Enlightenment tend to neglect thought which is undoubtedly of the Enlightenment but which doesn’t fit in with what they have constructed. This tendency particularly affects Diderot: the range of his writings considered is almost always narrowed down, the problems of irony and tone they pose are often ignored. On a larger scale, the rococo is passed over, as if in embarrassment. Some of Diderot’s works can plausibly described be …
Some things about Jacques Derrida that surprised me
Thus it ever was? This is how it should be
What is it to ‘go beyond’? Perhaps only to stay a short while, bobbing on a moment in the seas of time. That staying upright — is it remaining in place, on the spot? is it being carried away briefly and then coming back without obvious loss to where we were before? staying enclosed by the inverted commas? does it make any difference other than that of the difference between one moment and the next, indistinguishable and yet not the same? Twenty y…
Denis Diderot’s ‘Rameau’s Nephew’
Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew has achieved a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media edition offers not only a brand new translation of Diderot's famous dialogue but provides portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, allowing a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces selected …
The Final Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Derrida taught philosophy all his life. Starting in 1960–4, at the Sorbonne, from 1964 to 1984 at the Ecole normale (ENS Rue d’Ulm, Paris), then from 1984 to 2003 at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS). The seminars by which that teaching was disseminated over many years (1960–2004) will be published in an even longer time interval by Galilee, lasting probably until the end of 2050, with a translation into English intended to…
Diderot's earlier philosophical writings
Diderot's standing as a philosopher is decidedly non-standard. It is odd in a number of ways. First, he worked for much of his life as a part of various socio-professional groups – different ones succeeding each other from the 1740s on: the Encyclopédistes during the later 1740s and the 1750s when he acted as the director of the great Encyclopédie ; painters, architects and doctors in the 1760s, their information, and sometimes their personalitie…
Malcolm, Mallarmé and Music
Starting with a very brief account of the way language's relation to music was conceived before the nineteenth century, Malcolm Bowie's relation to music is considered by close textual analysis of two passages from his work on Mallarmé. I argue that it is through reference to music that Bowie is able to suggest non-closure even in Mallarmé's use of the archetypal closed form, the sonnet; and through reference to music that Mallarmé's non-trivial …
Le point et le rétroviseur
De son vivant comme après sa mort, Diderot a été accusé de manque de suite dans les idées. Jean-Claude Bourdin, refusant de lui accorder l'épithète de 'sceptique', a suggéré que l'insécurité et le questionnement ne seraient pas la marque de sa philosophie, qui est matérialiste, mais tiendraient à sa manière d'écrire. Pourtant ces caractéristiques portent également une signification philosophique parfaitement cohérente: le temps serait irréel, au …
In Memoriam Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie 1943–2007
Certains étonnements que j'ai pu avoir à propos de Jacques Derrida
Une orientation absolument fondamentale de la pensee, je dirais meme de l'etre, de Derrida me parait l'orientation vers l'avenir, vers ce qui n'est pas encore arrive, vers ce qui ne prend meme pas place parmi l'ensemble des possibles de l'avenir. Mais simultanement, il dit redouter la programmation, les programmes qui lui seraient imposes; dans «Circonfession», par exemple, il semble chercher a etre en libre course, a ne plus etre en prise. Ce n'…
Diderot et Rousseau par Rameau interposé1
Les statuts de Rousseau et Diderot dans la république des lettres ont été très tôt fort différents. Pourtant on sait peu, très peu de choses sur le début de leur relation. L'article suggère que la conversation du Neveu de Rameau entre MOI et LUI porterait comme en filigrane un tracé de ce qu'ont été les discussions entre Diderot et Rousseau au temps de leur grande amitié, au tournant des années 1750, et comme l'ombre d'un portrait satirique du ph…
Derridas
The Logic of Representation (and the Representation of Logic)
Measuring Statues, or, Special Neutrality
The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy
The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy
Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's central notion of genesis, and gives us our first glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead Derrida to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of deconstruction
Carnet bibliographique
The Object of Art
Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? Questions such as these, which have dominated aesthetic theory since the Greeks, were debated with extraordinary vigour and ingenuity in eighteenth-century France. In this book Dr Hobson analyses these debates, focusing in…
In Memory of C. M. Johnson
The Final Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Derrida taught philosophy all his life. Starting in 1960–4, at the Sorbonne, from 1964 to 1984 at the Ecole normale (ENS Rue d’Ulm, Paris), then from 1984 to 2003 at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS). The seminars by which that teaching was disseminated over many years (1960–2004) will be published in an even longer time interval by Galilee, lasting probably until the end of 2050, with a translation into English intended to…
La Lettre Sur Les Sourds Et Muets De Diderot
Jacques Derrida, La Vérité en peinture , (Paris
Deconstruction, Empiricism, and the Postal Services
Journal Article DECONSTRUCTION, EMPIRICISM, AND THE POSTAL SERVICES Get access MARIAN HOBSON MARIAN HOBSON CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, July 1982, Pages 290–314, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXVI.3.290 Published: 01 July 1982
The Object of Art
Reappraisals of Rousseau
The Object of Art
Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? Questions such as these, which have dominated aesthetic theory since the Greeks, were debated with extraordinary vigour and ingenuity in eighteenth-century France. In this book Dr Hobson analyses these debates, focusing in…
The Open Boundary of History and Fiction
The Description for this book, The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to the French Enlightenment, will be forthcoming.
Dans la caverne de Platon. Heidegger, Derrida
Heidegger in Platons Lehre von der Wahrheit and Derrida through an essay on Mallarmé, La double séance, have pursued the unsaid in Plato's myth of the cave. But the unsaid takes different shapes in Plato, through its shape in Derrida or Heidegger. Heidegger pinpoints an unexplicit change in the notion of truth, an unsaid he does not say but remembers in its consequences for Western metaphysics ; Derrida develops irony without transcending it thro…
Obituary
Obituary
Carnet bibliographique
The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy
The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy
Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's central notion of genesis, and gives us our first glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead Derrida to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of deconstruction
The Logic of Representation (and the Representation of Logic)
Measuring Statues, or, Special Neutrality
Certains étonnements que j'ai pu avoir à propos de Jacques Derrida
Une orientation absolument fondamentale de la pensee, je dirais meme de l'etre, de Derrida me parait l'orientation vers l'avenir, vers ce qui n'est pas encore arrive, vers ce qui ne prend meme pas place parmi l'ensemble des possibles de l'avenir. Mais simultanement, il dit redouter la programmation, les programmes qui lui seraient imposes; dans «Circonfession», par exemple, il semble chercher a etre en libre course, a ne plus etre en prise. Ce n'…
Diderot et Rousseau par Rameau interposé1
Les statuts de Rousseau et Diderot dans la république des lettres ont été très tôt fort différents. Pourtant on sait peu, très peu de choses sur le début de leur relation. L'article suggère que la conversation du Neveu de Rameau entre MOI et LUI porterait comme en filigrane un tracé de ce qu'ont été les discussions entre Diderot et Rousseau au temps de leur grande amitié, au tournant des années 1750, et comme l'ombre d'un portrait satirique du ph…
Derridas
In Memoriam Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie 1943–2007
Le point et le rétroviseur
De son vivant comme après sa mort, Diderot a été accusé de manque de suite dans les idées. Jean-Claude Bourdin, refusant de lui accorder l'épithète de 'sceptique', a suggéré que l'insécurité et le questionnement ne seraient pas la marque de sa philosophie, qui est matérialiste, mais tiendraient à sa manière d'écrire. Pourtant ces caractéristiques portent également une signification philosophique parfaitement cohérente: le temps serait irréel, au …
Malcolm, Mallarmé and Music
Starting with a very brief account of the way language's relation to music was conceived before the nineteenth century, Malcolm Bowie's relation to music is considered by close textual analysis of two passages from his work on Mallarmé. I argue that it is through reference to music that Bowie is able to suggest non-closure even in Mallarmé's use of the archetypal closed form, the sonnet; and through reference to music that Mallarmé's non-trivial …
Diderot's earlier philosophical writings
Diderot's standing as a philosopher is decidedly non-standard. It is odd in a number of ways. First, he worked for much of his life as a part of various socio-professional groups – different ones succeeding each other from the 1740s on: the Encyclopédistes during the later 1740s and the 1750s when he acted as the director of the great Encyclopédie ; painters, architects and doctors in the 1760s, their information, and sometimes their personalitie…
The Final Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Derrida taught philosophy all his life. Starting in 1960–4, at the Sorbonne, from 1964 to 1984 at the Ecole normale (ENS Rue d’Ulm, Paris), then from 1984 to 2003 at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS). The seminars by which that teaching was disseminated over many years (1960–2004) will be published in an even longer time interval by Galilee, lasting probably until the end of 2050, with a translation into English intended to…
Some things about Jacques Derrida that surprised me
Thus it ever was? This is how it should be
What is it to ‘go beyond’? Perhaps only to stay a short while, bobbing on a moment in the seas of time. That staying upright — is it remaining in place, on the spot? is it being carried away briefly and then coming back without obvious loss to where we were before? staying enclosed by the inverted commas? does it make any difference other than that of the difference between one moment and the next, indistinguishable and yet not the same? Twenty y…
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