Dowd, Garin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6435-640X (2025) Of Amphibolies and Amphibiologies. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 30 (1). pp. 92-109. ISSN 0969-725X

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Abstract

Following the lead of Michèle Le Doeuff in generalising the figure of the amphiboly in her reading of Kant’s maritime digressions in the course of his Critical opus, my essay departs from this basis to look both to philosophy and literature (with minor digressions into photography and cinema) in order to examine images of the human species in acts of immersion, traversal and exit from the sea, as well as installation on land (and on the island in particular) in a range of texts. My own oscillation (largely albeit not exclusively) between literature and philosophy may be summarised in the term amphibiologies, within which lexical unit itself lie latent amphibolies of both philosophical and grammatical significance.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1080/0969725X.2025.2454830
Subjects:	Philosophy
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2025
Dates:	Date Publication status 24 November 2024 Accepted 12 February 2025 Published
School, department or research centre:	London School of Film, Media and Design
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13260

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