EN 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Logocentrism, Paradigm Shift, Unconscious Mind
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Beginning in the victorian age, a paradigm shift slowly spread through europe that set the groundwork for modern theory. Unlike the revolutionary movements of the renaissance and romanticism, which were in part reactionary, this paradigm shift marked a radical break with the past that had little precedent. Indeed , it marked a rejection of long-held metaphysical and aesthetic beliefs that most theorists from plato to coleridge took for granted. Logo-centric view: plato (500 bce) coleridge (1750) Until the modern period, most of the great western philosophers have been logocentric in their thinking. Logocentrists consider meaning to emanate finally finally from some logos or originary source that is pure and undefiled. Examples of this logos would include: plato"s forms, john"s logos, Augustine"s trinity, descartes; mind, kant"s thing in itself, hegel"s idea, and coleridge"s i am that i am. Sometimes, in the work of radical epistemologists, this logos becomes internalized and is known as the absolute self or transcendent ego (emerson)
