[Air-l] no politics?

[Paula]

Look at it this way -- whilst frogspawn may have no interest in
politics, human discourse of frogspawn very probably will!

Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:

> are you sure about that?  it would seem to me that to even possess a 
> powerful conceptualization of 'politics' that it would require a 
> conceptual space that is a-political or without politics.  without 
> that, all we have is a totallizing category, which probably could not 
> do any analytical or critical work as a concept....  yet, we do use a 
> broad spectrum of meanings from apolitical to political to 
> demonstrate and discuss certain facts about our states of affairs 
> each day.  the concept of politics seems to me to do significant work 
> in these demonstrations and discussions.   thus to me, there has to 
> be a space outside of politics in order to even have a politics.  
> something has to be a-political for anything to be political.  
> aristotle recognizes several forms of a-politicality, though most of 
> those are disputed today, such as nature, and reason....  
> nonetheless, we can conceive of these politicized territories as 
> apolitical also, thus allowing us to develop meaningful analysis 
> based upon the differences between their political and a-political 
> understandings.
>
>
> On May 26, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Ann De Vaney wrote:
>
>> There is no space outside of politics.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ann De Vaney
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>> adevaney at uci.edu
>>
>>
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> Jeremy Hunsinger
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