TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gragnolati, Manuele
A1  - Holzhey, Christoph F. E.
T1  - Beginnings : constituting wholes, haunting, plasticity
T2  - De/constituting wholes : towards partiality without parts / edited by Manuele Gragnolati and Christoph F.E. Holzhey ; Cultural inquiry ; vol. 11
N2  - 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 to extend beyond one's limited existence; 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. Wholes constitute their parts: they determine what is a part and what is apart, what can become a part, and which parts have no part. Even if parts therefore may not be said to pre-exist a whole, there may still be something in them that exceeds being a part - if only the possibility of being part of a different whole.
KW  - Wholeness
KW  - Partiality
KW  - Haunting
KW  - Plasticity
KW  - Totality (Philosophy)
KW  - Malabou, Catherine
KW  - Ganzheit
KW  - Plastizität
KW  - Totalität
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55250
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-552507
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-11/gragnolati-holzhey_beginnings.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-854-7
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 7
EP  - 29
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien ; Berlin
ER  -