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Wholes are said to be more than the sum of their parts. This ‘more’ contains both a promise and a threat. When different elements — which might be individuals, cultures, disciplines, or methods — form a whole, they not only join forces but also generate a surplus from which the parts can benefit. Being part of a whole is a way to acquire meaning; and having a part in the whole is to have an enlarged agency. But wholes are also more powerful than the sum of their parts.
Keywords: Wholeness; Partiality; Haunting; Plasticity; Totality (Philosophy); Malabou, Catherine
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Part of De/Constituting Wholes Containing:
[Frontmatter] /
Beginnings: Constituting Wholes, Haunting, Plasticity
Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History: Queer Historiography, Post-Slavery Subjectivities, and Sadomasochism in Isaac Julien’s The Attendant / Volker Woltersdorff
Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth: Diasporic Reading of Queer Conversions / Ruth Preser
Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics / Eirini Avramopoulou
Differently Queer: Temporality, Aesthetics, and Sexuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolioand Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli / Manuele Gragnolati
Warburg’s Ghost: On Literary Atlases and the ‘Anatopic’ Shift of a Cartographic Object / Filippo Trentin
Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality / Jamila M.H. Mascat
The Innate Plasticity of Bodies and Minds: Integrating Models of Genetic Determination and Environmental Formation / Robert Meunier, Valentine Reynaud
Pumping Honey: Joseph Beuys at the documenta 6 / Arnd Wedemeyer
An Eclipse of the Screen: Jorge Semprún’s Scripts for Alain Resnais / Marcus Coelen
[Backmatter] /
Title
Beginnings
Subtitle
Constituting Wholes, Haunting, Plasticity
Author(s)
Manuele Gragnolati
Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_01
Description
Wholes are said to be more than the sum of their parts. This ‘more’ contains both a promise and a threat. When different elements — which might be individuals, cultures, disciplines, or methods — form a whole, they not only join forces but also generate a surplus from which the parts can benefit. Being part of a whole is a way to acquire meaning; and having a part in the whole is to have an enlarged agency. But wholes are also more powerful than the sum of their parts.
Is Part Of
De/Constituting Wholes
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2017
Subject
Wholeness
Partiality
Haunting
Plasticity
Totality (Philosophy)
Malabou, Catherine
Rights
© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Bibliographic Citation
Manuele Gragnolati and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, ‘Beginnings: Constituting Wholes, Haunting, Plasticity’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 7–29 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_01>
Language
en-GB
page start
7
page end
29
Source
De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 7–29
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Cite as: Manuele Gragnolati and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, ‘Beginnings: Constituting Wholes, Haunting, Plasticity’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 7–29 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_01>