John Rajchman
Biographic Data
| ID | 486052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Rajchman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajchman |
| SIGNATURE | RAJCHMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colombia University, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Art of Notation Revisited
In 2008, John Rajchman contributed an essay for a remarkable publication and exhibition introducing and exploring the history of musical and choreographic notion, entitled Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, shown in Berlin and in Karlsruhe. For a long time available only in German, the essay appears here for the first time in English, accompanied by a preface which describes the transformed context in which today it acquires new relevance …
The Identity in Question
Truth and Eros
In this reissused work, first published in 1991, John Rajchman isolates the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan and explores its ramifications and implications for the present day. He demonstrates that the question of ethics was at once the most difficult and the most intimate question for these two authors, offering a complex point of intersection between them. As such, he argues that it belongs to the great tradition that is co…
O pensamento na arte contemporânea
No artigo, o autor explora a tese de que não há arte - e, particularmente, não há "arte contemporânea" - sem uma busca por novas ideias de arte, novas ideias do que seja a arte e de suas relações específicas com as instituições artísticas e com o próprio pensamento
Michel Foucault
Rendre la terre légère
En portant l’accent sur la « legerete » de la terre, Nietzsche a ouvert des voies que l’architecture commence a peine a emprunter. Construire des espaces et des temporalites neuves peut se dire aussi : abandonner la terre comme sol, comme pesanteur et decouvrir, au-dela de l’immateriel et de la transparence, la legerete comme experimentation et nomadisme. L’architecture peut entretenir alors des relations fecondes avec les sciences, les mathemati…
The Deleuze Connections
"This book is a map of the work of Gilles Deleuze - the man Michel Foucault would call the "only real philosophical intelligence in France." It is not only for professional philosophers, but for those engaged in what Deleuze called the "nonphilosophical understanding of philosophy" in other domains, such as the arts, architecture, design, urbanism, new technologies, and politics. For Deleuze's philosophy is meant to go off in many directions at o…
Jean-Francois Lyotard's Underground Aesthetics
Jean-Fran;ois Lyotard leaves us a large and complex oeuvre we are perhaps yet to understand; Discours, Figure, an important work still fresh today, is yet to appear in English; and even in French one awaits several posthumous publications. What sort of oeuvre is it? Perhaps since Adorno no philosopher has worked as directly with aesthetics; and unlike some of his more textualist contemporaries, Lyotard was peculiarly concerned with arts, one migh…
Foucault's Art of Seeing
In his book called Foucault, Gilles Deleuze says of Michel Foucault that he was a great seer, a voyant. He declares that Foucault's seeing, and his discussion of seeing, are a constant and central part not only of his histories but also of his thought. He says that those who fail to take this part of his thought into account mutilate it to point where it becomes comparable to analytic philosophy, something which it does not have much in common.' …
Truth and Eros
This book attempts to isolate the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan and explores its ramifications and implications for the present day. The author argues that in departing from the piety of moral theory, Foucault and Lacan embark on a strange uncharted voyage through the history of ethical thought, a voyage that takes them through Cynicism and Platonism; Antigone and Socrates; Aristotle, Kant, and Bentham; Nietzsche and Freud.…
Philosophical Events Essays of the ’80S
Studies philosophical traditions by looking at the work of Foucault, postmodernism, and art and architecture
Rejoinder to Richard Wolin
In his response to my essay, Richard Wolin remarks that the recent controversy over reason and unreason in contemporary philosophy has proved to be a rather sterile one. I would agree. But in my view it is Habermas's complaint the charges of aestheticism, cryptonormativism, nihilism, infantilism, wholesale rejection of reason and modern society levelled against poststructuralism which has largely been responsible for this sterility. Wolin reitera…
Crisis
Crisis
Research Article| October 01 1989 Crisis John Rajchman John Rajchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 28: 90–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928586 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Rajchman; Crisis. Repres…
Michel Foucault. The Freedom of Philosophy
Foucault's Art of Seeing
Habermas's Complaint
On Signs
Lacan and the Ethics of Modernity
Research Article| July 01 1986 Lacan and the Ethics of Modernity John Rajchman John Rajchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1986) 15: 42–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928391 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John…
Foucault, or the Ends of Modernism
The whole relentless theorization of writing which we saw in the 1960s was doubtless only a swansong. Through it the writer was fighting for the preservation of his political privilege; but the fact that it was precisely a matter of theory, that he needed scientific credentials, founded in linguistics, semiology, psychoanalysis, that this theory took its references from the direction of Saussure or Chomsky, etc., and that it gave rise to such med…
The Story of Foucault's History
Foucault has written histories in several areas and about several periods. He has also written about the discipline of history and its methods. Typically, philosophers have paid attention primarily to his metahistory, while historians have ignored it, preferring to judge his work on their own terms. But there is a further complication. As was Sartre, Foucault is an with public positions, and as such he must worry about the political aims and cons…
Foucault's Art of Seeing
Jean-Francois Lyotard's Underground Aesthetics
Jean-Fran;ois Lyotard leaves us a large and complex oeuvre we are perhaps yet to understand; Discours, Figure, an important work still fresh today, is yet to appear in English; and even in French one awaits several posthumous publications. What sort of oeuvre is it? Perhaps since Adorno no philosopher has worked as directly with aesthetics; and unlike some of his more textualist contemporaries, Lyotard was peculiarly concerned with arts, one migh…
O pensamento na arte contemporânea
No artigo, o autor explora a tese de que não há arte - e, particularmente, não há "arte contemporânea" - sem uma busca por novas ideias de arte, novas ideias do que seja a arte e de suas relações específicas com as instituições artísticas e com o próprio pensamento
Habermas's Complaint
Lacan and the Ethics of Modernity
Research Article| July 01 1986 Lacan and the Ethics of Modernity John Rajchman John Rajchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1986) 15: 42–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928391 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John…
Foucault, or the Ends of Modernism
The whole relentless theorization of writing which we saw in the 1960s was doubtless only a swansong. Through it the writer was fighting for the preservation of his political privilege; but the fact that it was precisely a matter of theory, that he needed scientific credentials, founded in linguistics, semiology, psychoanalysis, that this theory took its references from the direction of Saussure or Chomsky, etc., and that it gave rise to such med…
The Story of Foucault's History
Foucault has written histories in several areas and about several periods. He has also written about the discipline of history and its methods. Typically, philosophers have paid attention primarily to his metahistory, while historians have ignored it, preferring to judge his work on their own terms. But there is a further complication. As was Sartre, Foucault is an with public positions, and as such he must worry about the political aims and cons…
Foucault, or the Ends of Modernism
The whole relentless theorization of writing which we saw in the 1960s was doubtless only a swansong. Through it the writer was fighting for the preservation of his political privilege; but the fact that it was precisely a matter of theory, that he needed scientific credentials, founded in linguistics, semiology, psychoanalysis, that this theory took its references from the direction of Saussure or Chomsky, etc., and that it gave rise to such med…
The Story of Foucault's History
Foucault has written histories in several areas and about several periods. He has also written about the discipline of history and its methods. Typically, philosophers have paid attention primarily to his metahistory, while historians have ignored it, preferring to judge his work on their own terms. But there is a further complication. As was Sartre, Foucault is an with public positions, and as such he must worry about the political aims and cons…
On Signs
Lacan and the Ethics of Modernity
Research Article| July 01 1986 Lacan and the Ethics of Modernity John Rajchman John Rajchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1986) 15: 42–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928391 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John…
Michel Foucault. The Freedom of Philosophy
Foucault's Art of Seeing
Habermas's Complaint
Crisis
Crisis
Research Article| October 01 1989 Crisis John Rajchman John Rajchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 28: 90–98. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928586 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Rajchman; Crisis. Repres…
Rejoinder to Richard Wolin
In his response to my essay, Richard Wolin remarks that the recent controversy over reason and unreason in contemporary philosophy has proved to be a rather sterile one. I would agree. But in my view it is Habermas's complaint the charges of aestheticism, cryptonormativism, nihilism, infantilism, wholesale rejection of reason and modern society levelled against poststructuralism which has largely been responsible for this sterility. Wolin reitera…
Foucault's Art of Seeing
In his book called Foucault, Gilles Deleuze says of Michel Foucault that he was a great seer, a voyant. He declares that Foucault's seeing, and his discussion of seeing, are a constant and central part not only of his histories but also of his thought. He says that those who fail to take this part of his thought into account mutilate it to point where it becomes comparable to analytic philosophy, something which it does not have much in common.' …
Truth and Eros
This book attempts to isolate the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan and explores its ramifications and implications for the present day. The author argues that in departing from the piety of moral theory, Foucault and Lacan embark on a strange uncharted voyage through the history of ethical thought, a voyage that takes them through Cynicism and Platonism; Antigone and Socrates; Aristotle, Kant, and Bentham; Nietzsche and Freud.…
Philosophical Events Essays of the ’80S
Studies philosophical traditions by looking at the work of Foucault, postmodernism, and art and architecture
Jean-Francois Lyotard's Underground Aesthetics
Jean-Fran;ois Lyotard leaves us a large and complex oeuvre we are perhaps yet to understand; Discours, Figure, an important work still fresh today, is yet to appear in English; and even in French one awaits several posthumous publications. What sort of oeuvre is it? Perhaps since Adorno no philosopher has worked as directly with aesthetics; and unlike some of his more textualist contemporaries, Lyotard was peculiarly concerned with arts, one migh…
The Deleuze Connections
"This book is a map of the work of Gilles Deleuze - the man Michel Foucault would call the "only real philosophical intelligence in France." It is not only for professional philosophers, but for those engaged in what Deleuze called the "nonphilosophical understanding of philosophy" in other domains, such as the arts, architecture, design, urbanism, new technologies, and politics. For Deleuze's philosophy is meant to go off in many directions at o…
Rendre la terre légère
En portant l’accent sur la « legerete » de la terre, Nietzsche a ouvert des voies que l’architecture commence a peine a emprunter. Construire des espaces et des temporalites neuves peut se dire aussi : abandonner la terre comme sol, comme pesanteur et decouvrir, au-dela de l’immateriel et de la transparence, la legerete comme experimentation et nomadisme. L’architecture peut entretenir alors des relations fecondes avec les sciences, les mathemati…
Michel Foucault
O pensamento na arte contemporânea
No artigo, o autor explora a tese de que não há arte - e, particularmente, não há "arte contemporânea" - sem uma busca por novas ideias de arte, novas ideias do que seja a arte e de suas relações específicas com as instituições artísticas e com o próprio pensamento
Truth and Eros
In this reissused work, first published in 1991, John Rajchman isolates the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan and explores its ramifications and implications for the present day. He demonstrates that the question of ethics was at once the most difficult and the most intimate question for these two authors, offering a complex point of intersection between them. As such, he argues that it belongs to the great tradition that is co…
The Identity in Question
The Art of Notation Revisited
In 2008, John Rajchman contributed an essay for a remarkable publication and exhibition introducing and exploring the history of musical and choreographic notion, entitled Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, shown in Berlin and in Karlsruhe. For a long time available only in German, the essay appears here for the first time in English, accompanied by a preface which describes the transformed context in which today it acquires new relevance …
Philosophy (13 works) · Art (9 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)