Soundings
The Secret of Water and the Resonance of the Image
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4958058 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrienne Janus (0009-0009-7393-0675, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-84 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Senses and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/174589313x13500466751001 |
| OpenAlex | W2333631326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Water is perhaps the secret element...” Taking its inspiration from this line in Jean-Luc Nancy's The Muses (1996), this article presents a series of soundings that attempt to expose the secret element of water in Nancy's writing. These soundings do not aim to penetrate the depths of Nancy's thinking, or to suggest that Nancy is a hydrophilic philosopher for whom a watery thinking would redeem or critique the hydrophobia that is often seen to dominate philosophical discourse. Rather, they attempt to sound out quietly, to take a sondage of, what blossoms “à fleur d'eau,” in Nancy's writing on the Image in film, painting, and music. Here, water is not merely a metaphor for our sensual immersion in the world, nor the actualization as a material presence of all those secretions of sense that envelope and penetrate us as we move in and are moved by the world. Water is also the secret, lubric element in the partage—the sharing, parturition, and dividing off—of the senses in the birth to presence of the world and of art
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Element (criminal law · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Painting · Political science · French Literature and Criticism · French Literature and Poetry · Law · Philosophy · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |