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Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics reiner schürmann and the poetics of politics Before you start to read this book, take this moment to think about making a donation to punctum books, an independent non-profit press, @ https://punctumbooks.com/support/ If you’re reading the e-book, you can click on the image below to go directly to our donations site. Any amount, no matter the size, is appreciated and will help us to keep our ship of fools afloat. Contri- butions from dedicated readers will also help us to keep our commons open and to cultivate new work that can’t find a welcoming port elsewhere. Our ad- venture is not possible without your support. Vive la open-access. Fig. 1. Hieronymus Bosch, Ship of Fools (1490–1500) reiner schürmann and the poetics of politics. Copyright © 2018 by Christopher P. Long. 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We also take in strays. ISBN-13: 978-1-947447-73-8 (print) ISBN-13: 978-1-947447-74-5 (ePDF) lccn: 2018948913 Library of Congress Cataloging Data is available from the Library of Congress Book design: Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei Cover image: Louis Comtois, “Riddle of the Sphinx: In the Morning on Four, at Noon on Two, in the Evening on Three,” 1989. Oil, wax, mixed media on plywood. 203.2 × 595.4 cm. Purchase, with generous funds from the artist and Reiner Schürmann, with the collaboration of the American Friends of Canada © Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay. Reproduction on page 59 of Reiner Schürmann’s article “Situating René Char: Hölderlin, Heidegger, Char and the ‘There Is,’” boundary 2 4, no. 2 (1976): 513–34, 514, containing Henri Matisse’s drawing “The Shark and the Gull,” first published in Cahiers d’Art 1945–46, with kind permission of Cahiers d’Art. Christopher P. Long Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics Contents ¶ Introduction · Awakening to Symbols · 15 ¶ Morning · The Duplicity of Beginning · 37 ¶ Afternoon · Situating the Poet- ics of Politics · 63 ¶ Evening · The Voice of Singularity and a Philosophy to Come · 105 ¶ A Politics of the Between · 135 ¶ Bibliography · 161 For Reiner Schürmann Acknowledgments If my encounters with Reiner Schürmann during the final two years of his life taught me the power of beginning even in the shadow of death, my life with Valerie over the last twenty years, and with Chloe and Hannah since they were born, has taught me the meaning of happiness in its deepest, most ancient sense. They remind me that a life well-lived unfolds each day as we commit our best selves to one another in the rhythm of our fi- nite lives. This book could not have been born without their love and support which makes my life not only possible, but infi- nitely richer and more beautiful. To write a book that uncovers the hegemonic operation of principles in setting the world in order while serving as Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University might seem at first incongruent. Indeed, this book was first conceived while I was a junior member of the faculty at the Richard Stock- ton College of New Jersey, and two of the three chapters that make it a tryptic were developed while I was a faculty member and Associate Dean at the Pennsylvania State University. Yet the path that has led me to administration has also been shaped by the teaching of Reiner Schürmann. Whatever else an adminis- trative life involves, at its heart it ought to be animated by the meaning of its Latin root, ministrare, “to serve, attend, wait upon.” The attentive service of administration should always re- main attuned to the manner in which principles shape and mis- shape our relationships with one another over the course of our academic lives conditioned as they are by natality and mortality. The institutions that have supported and sustained my academic and administrative work have sought to embody the public edu- cational mission that motivated their creation. Founded in 1969, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey was established to develop engaged citizens in a rapidly changing interdependent world. A century earlier, a similar vision led to the creation of Michigan State University and, ten days later, The Pennsylvania State University as the pioneering land-grant institutions em- bodying the Morrill Act’s commitment to “promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”* If these institutions embody the traits of natality Schürmann often associates with principles of domination and hegemony, they also open spaces of educa- tional encounter capable of transforming lives by cultivating habits of critical thinking and acting attuned the conditions of finitude that shape our relationships with one another. This book owes its existence also to these institutions, and to the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research, which opened a space for just such an encounter with the re- markable teacher to whom this book is dedicated. Finally, this book is published and made accessible to the public by punctum books under the visionary leadership of Ei- leen Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. I would like to thank them both for their tireless efforts to bring this text to publica- tion, and for their steadfast commitment to the practice of mak- ing ideas public so they might shape more just and beautiful futures. * Act of July 2, 1862 (Morrill Act), Public Law 37-108, which established land grant colleges, 07/02/1862; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1996; Record Group 11; General Records of the United States Govern- ment; National Archives. 1 Introduction Awakening to Symbols To think is to pause and dwell on the conditions of what one is living. — Reiner Schürmann1 To begin with a thinker who remained always attuned to the du- plicitous nature of beginning requires candor. There is a thetic dimension to every beginning, and we will do well not to deny it here. Rather, let us begin by attending to the things Reiner Schürmann himself said about beginning: “A starting point,” he wrote, “that neither abandons ordinary experience nor trans- substantiates it into the extra-ordinary will have to be looked for in something everyone is familiar with, however poorly … .”2 For Schürmann, the ultimate traits of everydayness with which we are all familiar, though poorly, are the irreducible phenome- na of natality and mortality that condition our human existence. But perhaps in pointing already at the outset to these ulti- mate conditions, we have stepped back behind ordinary experi- ence too quickly. Perhaps we ought to return to an experience 1 Reiner Schürmann, “Abstraction That Makes the Viewer Think About the Last Paintings of Louis Comtois,” C Magazine 29 (1991): 6–7. 2 Reiner Schürmann, “Conditions of Evil,” in Deconstruction and the Possi- bility of Justice, eds. Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson (New York: Routledge, 1992), 388. 15 reiner schürmann and the poetics of politics of a beginning, to the place and time of my first real encounter with Reiner Schürmann, to a memory dimly recalled, yet poign- ant and delightful — like the man himself. Early in the fall semester of 1991, my first as a graduate student at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, a group of us found ourselves closely packed into a rather large room in the Cardozo School of Law. We had come to hear Jacques Derrida, who was to speak on a panel organized by Drucilla Cornell for a conference entitled, “The Politics of Transformation and the Limit of the Imagination.” But what I remember most clearly from that day was Reiner Schürmann. The content of the paper he delivered was largely lost on me; as a new graduate student in the heady intellectual world of New York City, I was barely treading water. Years later, quite recently in fact, I came to realize that the paper Schürmann presented entitled, “Conditions of Evil,” had been adapted from what was to become the final chapter of his magnum opus, Bro- ken Hegemonies. We will return to that paper and to the final chapter of Broken Hegemonies in a moment, for it too has something to teach us about beginnings. What struck me then, however, and what has remained with me since, is a single sentence Schürmann uttered that day, and the embodied gesture that went with it. It has stayed with me in part, I imagine, because it became a story to which my graduate student colleagues and I returned with delight and perplexity in the months and years that followed.
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