Such As It Is
A Short Essay in Extreme Realism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4865564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Massumi (0000-0001-9559-7767, Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-127 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x15612896 |
| OpenAlex | W2262586797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 5 |
C.S. Peirce begins his 1903 lectures on pragmatism from the premise that the starting point for pragmatic philosophy as he envisions it must not be a concept of Being but rather of Feeling. Pragmatism, he explains, will be 'an extreme realism'. Its first category will be 'immediate consciousness' conceived as a 'pure presentness' whose self-appearing is elemental to experience. Firstness cannot be couched in terms of recognition, cannot be contained in any first-person accounting of experience, and most of all can in no way be construed as being 'in the mind' of a subject, however the subject is conceived. This article follows some of the byways of Peirce's thinking on this constitutive field of experience prior to subject/object determinations, making links to James's 'pure experience', Whitehead's 'critique of pure feeling', and Deleuze/Guattari's 'being of sensation
Consciousness · Epistemology · Feeling · Pragmatism · Premise · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |