Abstract
The question of “is” as a shuffling of representational times. Horses mistaken for humans and hobby-horses in Sterne, Ruiz, and Nietzsche. Sociopaths troubling number and memory (revisiting Chapter 2’s themes of looping and pre-sequeling as variations on Roubaud’s interpolations and bifurcations). The contested “is-ness” or is-the-case-ness of character considered in a close reading of Godard’s film 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her, where numbers and words collide to fracture the narrative and representation of subject-hood and object-hood. A close reading of Kurosawa’s film Stray Dog in which the loaded signifier “gun” is an object of fascination as object, image, word, and idea. Followed by a coda in which a horse returns with its horseman thrown.
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- 1.
Braver, Heidegger, 85.
- 2.
Heidegger, “The Thing,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 176.
- 3.
Heidegger, ibid., 175 and 183; “Epilogue,” Poetry, Language, Thought, 181 and 182.
- 4.
Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings, rev. edn., ed. David Farrell Krell (San Francisco: Harper, 1993), 445; Mark A. Wrathall, Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, and History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 33–34.
- 5.
Roubaud, The Great Fire of London, §46, 98, 116, and 220.
- 6.
Ibid., 131 (§50), 240, 133 (§51), 242, and 139 (§55), 251.
- 7.
Ibid., §56, 120.
- 8.
Ibid., 127 (§49), 235.
- 9.
Ibid., §3, 7, and 8.
- 10.
Ibid., §44, 94–95 and §45, 95–96.
- 11.
Roubaud, 102–3.
- 12.
Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, §20, 290.
- 13.
Ibid., §47:121, 227.
- 14.
Heidegger, What Is Calling Thinking? 225 and 226.
- 15.
“Participles take part in both the nominal and the verbal meaning.” Heidegger, What Is Calling Thinking? 216, 217, 220, 225, 227, and 228.
- 16.
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 71.
- 17.
Ibid., 18.
- 18.
Ibid. For example, on page 72, but not here alone.
- 19.
Ibid.
- 20.
Ibid., 39, 40, and 53.
- 21.
Cavell, The Claim of Reason, 378, 380, and 382–83.
- 22.
Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001), 22.
- 23.
Ibid., 23 and 24.
- 24.
Ibid., 24 and 25.
- 25.
Cavell, The Claim of Reason, 370–71.
- 26.
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §67, 196.
- 27.
Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics, §105.
- 28.
Ibid., §100, 101, and 102.
- 29.
Ibid., §103.
- 30.
Ibid., Part I, Appendix I, §13, Appendix II, §2, and Appendix III, §3.
- 31.
Anne Carson, “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions,” Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (New York: Vintage/Random House, 2006), 72.
- 32.
Something similar occurs in Raúl Ruiz’s last film, Night Across the Street (2012) in which an off-screen secretary types the lead character’s retirement speech as he delivers it on camera.
- 33.
Colin Marshall, “Kant’s Metaphysics of the Self,” Philosophers’ Imprint vol. 10:8 (August 2010), 1; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness (New York: Humanities Press) §5.632.
- 34.
Arthur Melnick, Kant’s Theory of the Self (New York: Routledge, 2009), paraphrased by Marshall, 1.
- 35.
Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows (Jaffrey: David R. Godine, 2016), 46–47.
- 36.
Ibid., 48.
- 37.
Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, §5, 9, and 12.
- 38.
Murnane, 30, 37, and 38.
- 39.
Ibid., 39.
- 40.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. 2: The Inner and the Outer, ed. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman, trans. C.G. Luckhardt and Maximilian A.E. Aue (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 1992), 84.
- 41.
Murnane, A Million Windows, 18.
- 42.
Martin Heidegger, Poetry. Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013), 12.
- 43.
- 44.
Kurosawa based his co-written script for the film on an unpublished novel by a real-life detective who had his gun stolen but also on Georges Simenon novels, which Juliette cites in Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her.
- 45.
Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, 20.
- 46.
Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” 145, 146, 147, and 148.
- 47.
- 48.
Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” 154.
- 49.
Ibid., 155.
- 50.
Heidegger, “The Thing,” in Poetry, Language, Thought, 164 and 165; Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, 24 and 25.
- 51.
“In this questioning, we seem to belong completely to ourselves. Yet it is this questioning that pushes us into the open, provided that it itself, as questioning, transforms itself (as does every genuine questioning), and casts a new space over and through everything.” Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, 32.
- 52.
Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, 33.
- 53.
Wittgenstein, Philosphical Investigations, §1.
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Golub, S. (2019). Horse (Why Is There Something Else Rather Than Something?). In: Heidegger and Future Presencing (The Black Pages). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31889-5_4
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