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The Pan's Pan
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ISBN13: 9781764603805
Publisher: Lawrence IP
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What happens when the instrument used to extract knowledge is mistaken for reality itself?
The Pan's Pan is a compact work of philosophical essays about knowledge, reason, and the hidden apparatus that makes ideas portable by separating them from the relations that produced them.
Beginning with the familiar hierarchy of ethos, pathos, and logos, the author argues that formal reason does not arrive first. It is placed, named, authorised, and eventually mistaken for ground. Through the image of gold panning, the book names a repeatable sequence: ascription, conscription of prescription, subscription, and ablution-by which living knowledge is turned into detachable results while its genealogy is washed from view.
The inquiry then moves across Heraclitus, Daoist thought, Saraswati in the Vedic tradition, and Ọ̀ṣun in Yoruba cosmology. The traditions are not collapsed into a single theory. Instead, their distinct uses of the river reveal a recurring structure: knowledge as directed flow, identity through change, and continuity carried through relation.
From there the pan turns inward. The academy, critique, phenomenology, and the habits of formal inquiry themselves become objects of attention. The book calls this move an eidetic inversion: the thing normally looked through becomes the thing looked at.
The Pan's Pan does not offer a new doctrine or a programme to follow. It asks a more difficult question: what becomes visible when the apparatus that made our distinctions seem fundamental is itself brought into view?
For readers of philosophy, epistemology, rhetoric, critical theory, and the history of ideas, this is a short book about extraction-and about what survives the wash.
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