Part 6 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic asks about the Buddhist term "papança" and how it relates to anxiety and depression.
Topics discussed:
- The meaning of papança or Conceptual proliferation
- Whether this proliferation is related to rumination, anxiety, and depression
- Historicization of translations
- How to deconstruct terms
- Comparing conceptual evolution with biological evolution
- Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer on definitions
- The two directions of dependent origination
- How and when to do conceptual genealogies like Nietzsche
- Metaphors as newly coined versus worn-out coins
- The increasing abstraction of the past few thousand years
- Mental proliferation within a single mind
- The resistance to abstraction by those who don't live in the built environment (Luria)
- Individualism in Montaigne and Fichte
- The issue of "obviousnesses" in Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
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