{"id":3287,"date":"2020-10-24T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2020-12-10T21:50:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:50:56","slug":"demon-chance-love-and-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2020\/10\/24\/demon-chance-love-and-necessity\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The investigation begins with a citation from Macrobius\u2019s Saturnalia to the effect that \u201cfour deities preside over the birth of every human being: Daimon, Tyche, Eros, and Ananke (Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity).\u201d He then turns to a work in which Goethe\u2014an author who, incidentally, spent his life working on a sprawling multi-volume project (Faust)\u2014takes up Macrobius\u2019s list, expanding it to include Elpis (Hope). The five chapters of the work correspond to Goethe\u2019s five figures, with Chance replaced by \u201cAventure\u201d (Proven\u00e7al for \u201cadventure\u201d) and Necessity by \u201cEvent.\u201d Hence the reader must be familiar with two dead languages\u2014Greek and Proven\u00e7al\u2014even to scan the table of contents, and the rest of the work shows the same breezy erudition for which Agamben is well known. Yet his fast-paced argumentation keeps the reader from getting bogged down, as every confusing or baffling point is quickly succeeded by a fresh idea or interpretation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The investigation begins with a citation from Macrobius\u2019s Saturnalia to the effect that \u201cfour deities preside over the birth of every human being: Daimon, Tyche, Eros, and Ananke (Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity).\u201d He then turns to a work in which Goethe\u2014an author who, incidentally, spent his life working on a sprawling multi-volume project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/2020\/10\/24220704\/apiece-3-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6L1xp-R1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}