著者

雨宮 はるな

出版者

日本コミュニケーション学会

雑誌

日本コミュニケーション研究 (ISSN:21887721)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, no.2, pp.169-192, 2018-05-31 (Released:2018-09-01)

参考文献数

33

被引用文献数

1

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The purpose of this essay is to explore the 17th century imagination of Baroque as a conceptualization of generative subject against the backdrop of the Foucauldian episteme of the Classical. The essay reads a potential of Descartes’ texts of Rules for Spiritual Direction and The Passions of the Soul in the reference of Foucault’s argument regarding 17th century imagination of the classical age. The essay attempts to locate the imagination in the Cartesian text as the locus of in-between spirit and body that deconstructs its dualism, the space of “res extensa” where subjects are rhetorically composed within on-going differences and continual movements. As the point of departure for this argument, this essay critically demonstrates a failure of Bradford Vivian (2000) who tried to explore the power of rhetorical forms in the process of composing the self as a subject in the modern West by adopting the “philosophy of becoming” by Gilles Deleuze and the “technologies of the self” by Michel Foucault. The essay points out the failure of Vivian’s argument on the reiteration of Cartesian subject in the modern episteme after the 19th century based on his misrecognition that not only misses the historical rupture of epistemes between the Classical and the modern but also misunderstands the location of subject in Deleuzian philosophy of becoming and fold. With critical reading of Descartes’ texts, the essay analyzes Rembrandt’s Philosopher in Meditation that metaphorically presents the space of 17th century imagination wherein intellect is composed as folds and well contemplated by the eye of spirit.