Ideas are never produced in isolation or ex nihilo; they cross borders, pick up contingent and accidental influences, and are reshaped by later readers who redirect them beyond their authors' intent.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
No idea is ever produced in isolation. Intellectual history is made of conversations already under way, which people join, leave and split into new circles: everything is dialogical.
Put simply Shore: nobody thinks up an idea alone. Ideas come out of conversations already going on, which people join, leave, or break away from to form new circles. Everything is a dialogue ("dialogical").
A purely national idea, conceived from scratch by someone who read no one, is what Shore calls an "epistemological fantasy"; ideas keep crossing borders and absorbing chance influences.
Put simply Shore: a purely national idea, dreamed up from scratch by someone who read no one, is a fantasy (her phrase: an "epistemological fantasy"). Ideas keep crossing borders and picking up chance influences.
Authors never control how their texts are read; readers take ideas where they will. One could even argue that all of French existentialism rests on Sartre misreading Heidegger.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
ShoreA purely national idea, conceived from scratch by someone who read no one, is what Shore calls an "epistemological fantasy"; ideas keep crossing borders and absorbing chance influences. L1 · 33:34
ShoreAuthors never control how their texts are read; readers take ideas where they will. One could even argue that all of French existentialism rests on Sartre misreading Heidegger. L1 · 35:55
Extends the claim that ideas cross borders impurely to the specific case of a text's reception: readers redirect a work beyond its author's intent.Our inference