Beginnings : constituting wholes, haunting, plasticity
- 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.
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| Author: | Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. HolzheyORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-552507 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-11/gragnolati-holzhey_beginnings.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_01 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85132-854-7 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | De/constituting wholes : towards partiality without parts / edited by Manuele Gragnolati and Christoph F.E. Holzhey ; Cultural inquiry ; vol. 11 |
| Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
| Place of publication: | Wien ; Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/07/28 |
| Tag: | Haunting; Partiality; Plasticity; Totality (Philosophy); Wholeness |
| GND Keyword: | Malabou, Catherine; Ganzheit; Plastizität; Totalität |
| Page Number: | 23 |
| First Page: | 7 |
| Last Page: | 29 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 467742820 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
