Post-essentialist Thought and the Problem of Selfhood

Yukarıda görülen başlık, beş yıl önce Boğaziçi Üniversitesi nde yapmış olduğum bir konuşmanın başlığı... Bana yüzyıl olmuş gibi geliyor. Bana hala mantıklı gelmiyor ama konuşmayı 8 Mart 2002 de yaptığımı not etmişim. Keşke feminizm ile ilgili bir konuşma yapsa imişim ama o zaman aklımda öyle birşey yoktu. Viyana daki Baudrillard konuşmasından 10 gün önce imiş... İnsan inanamıyor ama günlük tutmak iyi birşey bence.
Konuşmadan alıntılar:
'One doesn't want to see plurality as a threat for the given order of any given society.'

'Rorty has pointed out that Freud has done for conscience what Wittgenstein and Davidson has done for the language namely to show its sheer contingency. '

'Maybe we can refer to Nietzsche more in his replacing the platonic ontology with perspectivism, but in the concept of self, we are fascinated by Freud. '

'First a little bit about Freud. His personality has always been controversial, like most of his work. But at the beginning of the 21st century, he has still not lost his attraction for many thinkers and I think his legacy has not been worked out yet enough. I just want to bring an extract from a New York Times article , which express my view about Freud better than my own words. The article is about an essay in Natural History magazine written by Jared Diamond, a professor of physiology at the U.C.L.A., School of Medicine. He argues that only two scientists in the last 200 years can justifiably be called irreplaceable: Freud and Darwin. '

I quote:
Have any individuals really made a major, lasting difference to the course of science? More specifically, would their discoveries or conceptualisations have eluded other scientists until decades later if these individuals had not been born, and did their contributions have a unique impact that persisted long afterward? By those two criteria, I think that only two scientists within the last two centuries clearly qualify as irreplaceable: Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud. (I feel unsure whether Albert Einstein's impact was as far-reaching.) . . ."
After so many years I still think the same. 'Yes! Definitely!'