Symbolische Intraaktion : Ernst Cassirer und Karen Barad diffraktiv gelesen

The contemporary philosophical trend of New Materialisms expresses aneed to rethink space and matter while trying to avoid both monistic anddualistic approaches. As divergent as the resulting approaches may be, theyall share a sincere concern for the self-image of humans in the Anthropocene.This includes “agential realism”, which goes back to physicist KarenBarad. This paper aims to show that a reception and reevaluation of Barad's works from the perspective of a cultural philosophy influenced by Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms is desirable for any further discussion of contemporarydebates on realism. In order to account for the fundamental differencein the various concepts of ‘matter' used by Cassirer and Barad, thepaper desists from simply comparing their work and chooses an approachwhich Barad calls “diffractive reading”.

This illustrates how the new materialistand posthumanist ideas of entanglement, diffraction and intraactionevolve when read through the lens of a philosophy of symbolic forms, mostnotably revealing their relation to the symbolic form of Myth. [Publisher's text]

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