Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Will, Perspectivism, The 'Look'

As previously discussed, the Perspectivism of Heidegger entails Will, because it entails the positing of the existence of 'the' world that exceeds that of one's own world, and Will is the principle of Excession in Experience. More generally, Perspectivism also entails Will, insofar as it entails the existence of alterior perceptual fields. because Will is the principle of Diversification, i. e. any projection beyond one's own world to that of another entails Diversification. Without such a projection, even the awareness of being looked at, which Sartre and Levinas each cite as proof of the existence of others, remains only an uncomfortable phenomenon. In other words, insofar as each remains committed to phenomenological methodology, for which projections such as analogies and inferences are not evidentiary, the 'look' that each attributes to an 'other' never transcends the interiority of a for-itself.

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