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Arash Shokrisaravi

Cornell University
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  • Cornell University
    Comparative Literature Department
    Doctoral student
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology
History of Western Philosophy
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Metaphysics and Epistemology
History of Western Philosophy
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  • Foucault in the cave with Gadamer: on truth, understanding, and experience
    In Paul Allen Miller (ed.), Truth in the late Foucault: antiquity, sexuality and psychoanalysis, Bloomsbury Academic. 2024.
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    Foucault in the cave with Gadamer : on truth, understanding, and experience
    In Paul Allen Miller (ed.), Truth in the late Foucault: antiquity, sexuality and psychoanalysis, Bloomsbury Academic. 2024.
    Michel FoucaultHans-Georg Gadamer
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    Derrida and Rain: The Necessity of Contextualization
    The Pluralist 16 (3): 29-45. 2021.
    The gods were bored; therefore, they created human beings. Adam was bored because he was alone; therefore, Eve was created. Since that moment, boredom entered the world and grew in quantity in exact proportion to the growth of population. Adam was bored alone; then Adam and Eve were bored together; then Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille. After that, the population of the world increased and the nations were bored en masse.We hate boredom. We create; we play in order to postpon…Read more
    The gods were bored; therefore, they created human beings. Adam was bored because he was alone; therefore, Eve was created. Since that moment, boredom entered the world and grew in quantity in exact proportion to the growth of population. Adam was bored alone; then Adam and Eve were bored together; then Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille. After that, the population of the world increased and the nations were bored en masse.We hate boredom. We create; we play in order to postpone boredom. We search for any possible capacity to play. We created language first and went further then, for literature, metaphor, symbol, and other possibilities in language to defer boredom. Interpretability of language...
    Jacques DerridaAmerican Pragmatism
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