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In their Hermeneutic Communism and elsewhere, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala have advanced a powerful philosophical distinction, derived from Heidegger, between “framed” and “hermeneutic” thought.1 Their distinction is, to my mind, among the best modes of conceptualizing philosophical realism and its alternatives, not least because it draws attention to the material, medial underpinnings of thought in a similar way to how Heidegger himself alerted his readers to the way in which even purportedly “pure” forms of intuition like time and space (Kant) needed to be seen as always material, structured, embodied modes of existence.2
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Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala, Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
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Jacques Lacan, “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient depuis Freud”, Ecrits. Paris: Seuil, 1966, 516.
Egginton, How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003.
Michel Foucault, Surveiller et Punir. Paris: Gallimard, 1975.
For a selection of seminal writings on the subject, see Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup, eds. Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Quoted in Djelal Kadir, Questing Fictions: Latin America’s Family Romance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986, 14.
Egginton, The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2010.
See Egginton and Castillo, “‘The Rules of Chanfalla’s Game”, Romance Language Annual 6 (1995): 444–49
Angel Rama, La ciudad letrada. Texas: Ediciones del norte, 1984.
Mabel Moraña, “Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity”, in Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo, eds. Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context, Hispanic Issues 31 (2005): 241–82
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Egginton, W. (2014). Staging the Event: The Theatrical Ground of Metaphysical Framing. In: Marder, M., Zabala, S. (eds) Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event. Palgrave Studies in Postmetaphysical Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137333735_12
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