“Contents” in “The Potential Of Modern Discourse” | Open Indiana | Indiana University Press

CONTENTS

Introduction: Epistemic Croquet

0.0 The Potential of Modern Discourse

0.1 Epistemic croquet

0.2 The classical episteme A review of the discursive procedures

0.3 Constituting the modern epistemic context

0.4 The practice of interactional triadic semiosis

0.5 The utopian potential of modern discourse

0.6 In search of a consensus among “discontinuous systems” Transdisciplinarity

0.7 The modern potential of “constructive irony”

0.8 “Modernity” and irony

0.9 “Apologia”

Part One: The Potential Habit of Many Realities

The Epistemological Problematic

1.0 “Seinesgleichen geschieht” The Crisis of Synthetic Knowledge

1.1 Toerless The rejection of synthetic knowledge

1.2 Exactness and soul

1.3 Mach The positivist side of the coin

1.4 Non-synthesis of “representation” and “object”

1.5 Mach and the beginnings of relativity

1.6 Perturbation and indeterminacy in quantum mechanics

1.7 The crisis of representation as epistemological crisis

2.0 Toward the Alternative Discourse of Knowledge

2.1 “Viele Wirklichkeiten” Many realities

2.2 Perspectivism

2.3 Discursive contextualization as “reality”

2.4 Relational constitution of “reality” and “meaning”

2.5 Triadicity: Three-way relationality

2.6 The Interpretant as phenomenological dimension

3.0 Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Man as the Particular Manifestations of Signs

3.1 Man is an inference of signs

3.2 The materiality of the sign

3.3 Is the man without qualities a sign?

4.0 “Essayism”: Infinite Continuum of Sign Interaction and Infinite Series of Contexts

4.1 Infinite process

4.2 Uncertainty versus closed system

4.3 Incompleteness

4.5 Essayism and irony

4.6 Infinite sign-production

4.7 Peirce’s discursive “performance” of continuous sign-production

4.8 Interaction

4.9 The potential of interaction

5.0 Potentia—Partialloesung—Habit

5.1 “Potentia”

5.2 “Partialloesung” as “Moeglichkeitsepistemologie” (“partial solution” as the “epistemology of possibility”)

5.3 Partialloesung as narrative procedure

5.4 The possible implications of potentia for discursive criticism

5.5 How to render operative?

5.6 The potential of the modern Continuity of sign-production vs. the dead end of the postmodern—“absence” and “différance”

6.1 Bridging the gap—“différence”—with habit

6.2 The communicational aspect of habit

6.3 Habit constitutes belief

6.4 The stochastics of habit

6.5 Habit breaking

6.6 Phaneron: Fielding habits

6.7 Habit and community

6.8 Habit and ideology

6.8.1 Habit as a normative postulate of communication

6.8.2 The epistemological advantages of “habit”

7.0 The Epistemological Status of Modern Discourse

7.1 Modern discourse: A definition

7.2 The potential of modern discourse

7.3 Modern discourse: A second definition

Part Two: The Ghostliness of Narrative

Discursive Praxis of the Alternative Epistemology

0.0 An Imbroglio of Phaenera

1.0 A Partial Solution to the Irony in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

1.1 Interference of discursive practices

1.2 Multiplication of contexts: Frames of reference

2.0 Expanding Triadicity One Enunciated, Many Contexts

2.1 The many interpretants of “Genie”

2.2 “Erloesung”

2.3 “Geist”

3.0 Discursive Habits Constitute the Subject: Infinite Sign-Practices Disperse the Subject

4.0 Clearing the Way for Alternative Discourse: Disturbance of Communicational Postulates

4.1 Opposition of “is” versus “ought” Irony as critical theory/praxis of communication

4.2 Disruption of validity claims taken as pragmatic rules of interaction

4.3 New discourse: Alternative pragmatic postulates

5.0 Interdiscursive Interference—Habit-breaking—Dislocation of Fields of Discourse

5.1 The fields or types of discourse in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

5.2 Moosbrugger: Criminal or saviour? Madness or reason?

5.2.1 Journalistic discourse

5.2.2 Psychiatric discourse Reason’s use of madness/madness’ irony of Reason

5.2.3 Socrates revisited: Jurisprudence, the great silencer

5.2.4 “Moosbrugger is the table”?

5.2.5 Madness versus referentiality

6.0 Ulrich! Man without Qualities—Discourse without Habits

6.1 Radical relativization of the discourse of the Other

6.2 Trying on discourses for size

6.3 Radical auto-relativization of relativization

7.0 Quasi-direct Discourse—the Impersonality of Irony

7.1 Sharing words

7.2 Dialogism and polyphony

7.3 Narration in the impossibility of narrative

CONCLUSION: Praxis

Abduction in Human Interest

0.0 Knowledge and Human Interest

1.0 Musil: Theory and Praxis

2.0 The Ethics of a Quest for Utopia Practical Experiments in Utopianism

2.1 Utopia as total/perfect communication

3.0 Utopian Moment versus Utopian Process

4.0 A Normative Discourse and Utopian Discursive Praxis

4.1 The negative dialectics of utopia as ironic critical discursive praxis

4.2 The ultimate interpretant

4.3 The possibilities of alternative discourse as constructive utopia: Affirmation of value and interest

4.4 Affirmation of value—liberation from repression

4.5 Irony→discourse; discourse→utopia; irony→utopia

5.0 “Induktive Gesinnung” and “Abduction”

The Potential of Modern Discourse

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