Nietzsche contra Burke: The melodrama in dramatism

Desilet, Gregory

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“…Nietzsche's principle of contradiction is found in the posthumously published collection of Nietzsche's notes The Will to Power at fragment number 516. "Leaving dialectical opposition behind, Nietzsche finds no particular word or concept 'villainous' or offensive in itself...." [18]. Just as Aristotle found the notion of non-contradiction to be the most fundamental, Nietzsche found that the most fundamental 'value' of all [is] the principle of noncontradiction [19, p. 125].…”

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“…Nietzsche goes one step further in that he names that one substance "the will to power." For Nietzsche, "opposition is a logician's sham, a linguistic consequence" [21]. "There are no opposites: only from those of logic do we derive the concept of opposites-and falsely transfer it to things" 7 .…”

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shuttling among futures in the symbolic alchemy of the Mysterium coniunctionis

Junker

2000

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Contrary to the notion that the human mind has some sort of tendency toward the abstract processes of classifying, analysing and synthesising, this paper suggests that these processes are historically and socially constructed. Because these processes (in particular, synthesising) are brought about to serve specific purposes and agendas, we need to re-examine them periodically to see if they still serve our needs. In the past, synthesis had an important function as a symbol, among alchemists, for example. We have all but forgotten that symbolic functioning and treat it now only in its material manifestations. Having done so, we use the material sense to explain the symbolic sense. In that way, synthesis may no longer be a helpful way to look at our abstract processes. Insofar as the needs of the future may be different than the needs of the past or present, it may indeed be time to abandon ideas of abstract synthesis. The author suggests that in its place, we consider the notion of 'shuttling'. Shuttling allows us to adopt different positions, and even contradictory positions within our individual thinking, without feeling the need to immediately characterise the contradiction as 'wrong'. And insofar as we may have multiple present positions, shuttling opens up the possibility for multiple future positions as well.

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Section: Nietzsche's Principle Of Contradiction As a Positive Forcementioning

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Section: Nietzsche's Principle Of Contradiction As a Positive Forcementioning

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shuttling among futures in the symbolic alchemy of the Mysterium coniunctionis

Junker

2000

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The Adventures of Carbon Bond: Using a melodramatic game to explain CCS as a mitigation strategy for climate change

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Policy options for mitigating climate change have been severely limited in the USA by the clash of competing ideologies. People who oppose policies to mitigate climate change have successfully framed climate change as existing outside the realm of fact and empirical reality. Instead, opponents frame the issue as a melodramatic struggle between good and evil. While scientists and engineers tend to be uncomfortable with melodramatic framing, we argue that melodrama resonates with people. Constructing a different melodramatic frame can tap into people's tendency to conceptualize issues in terms of heroes and villains and assist in creating a shift in the political controversy from debating the factuality of climate change to a focus on mitigation. We developed an educational video game that uses this frame to teach students about climate change and carbon capture, and sequestration, to create an understanding of CO2 as the villain and humans as heroes through participation in mitigation strategies. The hero of this melodrama is aided by science and technology to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. We analyze The Adventures of Carbon Bond© as a medium for educating students about climate change and shifting framing. We begin with a discussion of melodrama and the rhetorical nature of video games. Then, through statistical analysis of surveys completed by students who played the game, we demonstrate that students experienced a knowledge increase as a result of game play. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for productively reframing climate change towards an emphasis on technological mitigation. © 2012 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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Power, war, and melodrama in the discourses of political movements

Blain

1994

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Nietzsche contra Burke: The melodrama in dramatism

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

shuttling among futures in the symbolic alchemy of the Mysterium coniunctionis

shuttling among futures in the symbolic alchemy of the Mysterium coniunctionis

The Adventures of Carbon Bond: Using a melodramatic game to explain CCS as a mitigation strategy for climate change

Power, war, and melodrama in the discourses of political movements

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