Ignorance: Between Knowing and Not Knowing
Image: Gavin Morrison & Sigrid Sandström (eds.),
Ignorance: Between Knowing and Not Knowing (Stockholm:
Axl Books, 2015)
Introduction text begins:
“Ignorance is an intellectual defect, imperfection, privation, or shortcoming.” So begins James Ferrier’s “The Agnoiology,” the section of his treatise,
The Institutes of Metaphysic (1854), in which he describes a theory of ignorance. In sympathy with Ferrier,
Ignorance between knowing and not knowing concerns the nature of ignorance, its relationship to knowledge and its differentiation from merely not knowing. However, this book additionally considers how different forms of ignorance exert force within the creation and reception of art.
Contents:
We Are Ignorant. Gavin Morrison & Sigrid Sandström
Undecidable Intentions. Barry Schwabsky
What Does Ignorance Signify in Rancière's
The Ignorant School master? Kim West
Ignorance and Method and Methodology? Elinor Hållén
Educated Ignorance. John Llewelyn
Ferrier's Agnoiology. Gavin Morrison
How To Not Know: An Essay on the Limits of Cognitive Knowledge. Jonna Bornemark
An Element of Blank: On Literary Ignorance. Andrew Bennett
Hear, Here. Jeanine Oleson