Rich and I have tried to make these kinds of hybrid extensions

Re: LACMA 111909 - Debashish Banerji
by Debashish on Sat 05 Dec 2009 08:02 AM PST Profile Permanent Link

This train of conversation arose because of my attempt to relate the Subject/Substance debate of Hegel/Spinoza returned in Zizek/Deleuze with Sri Aurobindo's dealing with sarvam and anantam in the Record of Yoga: http://www.sciy.org/blog/_archives/2009/11/20/4385355.html#1279216

The western debate remains an aporia because there is no passage out of its contradiction in the Avidya. But there is an experiential way out as delat with by Sri Aurobindo. To insert this into the discourse enlarges and extends its horizon. By introducing Sri Aurobindo into an unfamiliar terrain it also reconstellates and recontextualizes him.

This is a specific case, but in general, in sciy, Rich and I have tried to make these kinds of hybrid extensions. I believe in your own specialized field of writing you do the same - reconstellate Sri Aurobindo by introducing him into an existing contemporary discourse as a new perception which therey alters the discursive topography. Science, Culture and Integral Yoga Recent Articles
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