In this commentary I note that Lipari and Bertau want to assume that we live immersed in a flowing, stranded, agential reality in which no-“thing” is separate from any-“thing” else. Thus rather than being wholly in control of the unfolding processes of importance to us, we need to see ourselves as essentially living within dialogical and hermeneutical, back-and-forth relations with the others and othernesses around us. So although we may assume our understandings occur as a result of our “thoughts,” “ideas,” or “theories,” the fact is such nameable causal processes can only be seen as having been at work in people’s performances after they have been performed. Something else altogether guides us in the performance of our actions than the nameable “things” whose nature we currently seek to discover in our inquiries. Both Lipari and Bertau go a long way towards describing the nature of this “something else.”
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