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    Exits
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    Exits

    By Noel Gray

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    EXITS
    The four essays in this collection revolve around a basic question: after the shocking and irredeemable acts of genocide in the mid-20th century, do we now live in the twilight of one of the main platforms that inform western philosophy? Has the Platonic legacy (and its influence on a wide range of disciplines from science to the arts) exhausted itself, or is it simply undergoing a recalibration, adopting a different face as it searches for a means of escape from any accusations of blame? If it is indeed looking for an exit, then where will such a doorway lead?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNoel Gray
    Release dateSep 1, 2016
    ISBN9788826419046
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      Exits - Noel Gray

      Noel Gray

      EXITS

      © Noel Gray 2015

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      EDITOR'S NOTE

      FOREWORD

      THE POETIC EXIT

      THE CHAMELEON EXIT

      THE POISONED EXIT

      THE DIVINE EXIT

      AFTERWORD

      SELECTED REFERENCES

      EDITOR'S NOTE

      Exits is the first book in a series that covers a period of twenty-five or more years of academic writing by the author. Some essays in this series have previously appeared as book chapters in other scholars' publications, while several appeared as articles in numerous American, Australasian, Middle Eastern, and European academic journals. Other essays originated as conference papers, and several as invited responses to keynote and conference speakers; a few have been re-drafted from guest lectures given by the author. The last in the series, Screens , is a scaled-down version of the author's doctoral thesis in which he initially developed his early ideas concerning the philosophy of geometry. Other elements from the thesis also appear throughout the rest of the series.

      The themes included in the entire series range from philosophy to geometry, from aesthetics to cultural studies, and from science to fine arts. Many have either as a central or as a cursory element the role that geometry, and by extension, the image, play in the production and construction of meaning in both the sciences and the humanities. Others touch on the truth claims made by various disciplines, while some seek to examine obliquely the porous nature of what many disciplines consider their boundaries. The role and mercurial nature of specific metaphors is also a recurring theme in many of the essays.

      In most cases, the texts have been wholly or partially trimmed of their original academic format in the hope of making their contents more appealing to a wider audience.

      Laura Fabbris

      Series Editor

      FOREWORD

      Janus: One of the oldest of the Roman deities, and god of all doorways and passages, of beginnings, transitions, and ends. As such, his name is the first to be invoked in prayers to all other gods. The first month of the year is named after him, and he is usually depicted with two faces, one looking to the future, the other to the past. The double doors of his temple were left opened during times of war, and closed during times of peace. When open, citizens could enter to seek solace and comfort. The doors were closed only three times during the life of ancient Rome.

      The four essays in this collection (and to varying degrees throughout the series) revolve around a basic question: after the shocking and irredeemable acts of genocide in the mid-20 th century, do we now live in the twilight of one of the main platforms that inform western philosophy? More precisely, has the Platonic legacy (and its influence on a wide range of disciplines from science to the arts) exhausted itself, or is it simply undergoing a recalibration, adopting a different face? Is this legacy now involved in a theatre-of-masks, one that is desirous of saving its elevated position and relevance in the scheme of western thought? Or is it simply morphing into a ghost, a haunting and loitering presence immersed in a drama of denial and forgetfulness, all the while casting its gaze around for a means of escape?

      If it is indeed looking for an exit, then where will such a doorway lead? Will it be to an end, or to a new beginning? Equally, tantalising, is the conundrum that the end of the beginning is also the beginning of the end. The seeming resolution of this riddle is some middle plateau that morphs out of one and into the other. However, defining the character of this interface leads back into the conundrum. Hence, the ancients' wisdom in praying to Janus, a deity that looked both ways simultaneously; an other-worldly power that no doubt would still be considered an ideal gift by those inexorably driven by fate to either exit the ethereal realm of Platonic reason replete with its ideal forms, or erect barricades in its defence.

      THE POETIC EXIT

      Modern philosophy has many procedures for forgetting, for putting its troubles behind it. Of these, none is perhaps as interesting or as alluring as the poetic exit. To slip quietly through this magic door of fantasy - with philosophy hoping, yet then discovering it is unable to leave its unwanted baggage behind -

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