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Foreword xiii attempting to break free from its determinations -a relation that Hans Jonas insightfully characterized as one of needful freedom. 3 Non-sense in this view is not merely the failure of sense, but its pervasive background. Like sense, non-sense is itself a result of sense-making. There is no non-sense without the activity that produces the co-defined relation between sense and non-sense. Like the poles of a magnet, the two concepts presuppose each other and relate in terms of tension. Unlike the magnetic poles, the relation between sense and non-sense is not symmetrical. It might look as if the tension is uni-directional: non-sense can be frustrating and puzzling; it thereby elicits our attempts at sense-making. However, every time we make sense of anything, we are drawing the boundaries of non-sense by implication: not in a way that would allow us to say whether something will be nonsensical before it happens, but certainly at the moment when it happens. Non-sense motivates particular attempts at sense-making, but sense-making as a totality (for an agent or for a community) is what draws the boundaries of non-sense. I speak of boundaries and not of horizons because we

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Author

Massimiliano Cappuccio, Tom Froese (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349472987

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy