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Introduction: The Problems of Representation across Cultures—Mind, Language, Art, and Politics

Introduction: The Problems of Representation across Cultures—Mind, Language, Art, and Politics SPECIAL ISSUE: REPRESENTATION Introduction: The Problems of Representation across Cultures—Mind, Language, Art, and Politics Arindam Chakrabarti Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa uharindam@gmail.com Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are merely a copy of an actor. Second question of conscience. Frederick Nietzsche, Maxim 38, Twilight of the Idols In the beginning was the word. And the word represented the world that was to come. The ancient Indian Grammarian Panini thickened the plot with his aphorism that the word (token?) represents its own form (type?). Representation became so intimate and reflexive a relationship that the word and the world could hardly be distinguished. Not only did uttering “I promise” amount to promising; in some cultures saying “I love you” or “I leave you” was deemed constitutive of actually loving or leaving. People could not remember persons and situations, objects and facts, entities and events without remembering the names and sentences that “stood for” them. The twosome relation between word and object immediately split up into a threesome relationship, first between words and mental ideas and then between ideas and external objects, and this entire complex http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

Introduction: The Problems of Representation across Cultures—Mind, Language, Art, and Politics

Chakrabarti, Arindam
Philosophy East and West , Volume 71 (1) – Jan 8, 2021
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SPECIAL ISSUE: REPRESENTATION Introduction: The Problems of Representation across Cultures—Mind, Language, Art, and Politics Arindam Chakrabarti Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa uharindam@gmail.com Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are merely a copy of an actor. Second question of conscience. Frederick Nietzsche, Maxim 38, Twilight of the Idols In the beginning was the word. And the word represented the world that was to come. The ancient Indian Grammarian Panini thickened the plot with his aphorism that the word (token?) represents its own form (type?). Representation became so intimate and reflexive a relationship that the word and the world could hardly be distinguished. Not only did uttering “I promise” amount to promising; in some cultures saying “I love you” or “I leave you” was deemed constitutive of actually loving or leaving. People could not remember persons and situations, objects and facts, entities and events without remembering the names and sentences that “stood for” them. The twosome relation between word and object immediately split up into a threesome relationship, first between words and mental ideas and then between ideas and external objects, and this entire complex

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