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	An ad in a professional Philosophy publication from a Texas company called Cycorp sought new recruits for an ongoing ...
		Negative capability, rather, liberates philosophy from the naivety of those established discourses and practices it finds itself faced with, and it protects philosophy from its own tendency to a new kind of positivity – that of conceptual construction.
		Negative capability here takes the form of recognizing the complex mediations between the ideal and the real, the aporetic space of progress, bearing in mind that very often the game may not be worth the candle.
		Negative capability is both a conceptual and an existential achievement – the recognition of ongoing contingent engaged temporality as the plane on which we all must make our fragile sense.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/philosophy/faculty/wood_bookintro.html (4158 words)

	NEGATIVE CAPABILITY', 'DISPERSAL' AND THE CONTAINMENT OF EMOTION
		Negative Capability was, therefore, the final - though also itself provisional - 'dovetailing' of concepts in Keats' emerging view of the nature of the poetic imagination.
		Bion's use of Keats' notion of Negative Capability is one among a large number of terms in psychoanalysis that attempt to describe a peculiarly human disposition for containment and its therapeutic or developmental importance.
		In using the language of dispersal and Negative Capability to address such questions, it is worth reminding ourselves that the phrase was coined by Keats, a poet.
	www.uwe.ac.uk /bbs/trr/Issue3/Is3-2_1.htm (6400 words)

	In the technical language of psychoanalysis, such dispersal of difficult and confusing emotions is called ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Negative Capability suggests a peculiarly human capacity for ‘containment’: that is, the capacity to live with and to tolerate ambiguity and paradox, and to ‘remain content with half knowledge’ (Ward, 1963, p.
		In a similar sense, an appropriate combination of positive capabilities and Negative Capability can create a capacity to work at the edge between certainty and uncertainty, containing the thoughts and feelings of the individual in a manner that allows the pressures towards dispersal to be resisted.
		Negative Capability may indeed be a ‘gift’, as Kathleen Raine suggests (Raine, 1986: 322), a ‘native virtue of [the] mind’ (Caldwell, 1972: 7), or ‘an intrapsychic inheritance’ (Leavy, 1970: 187).
	www.sba.oakland.edu /ispso/html/2001Symposium/french.htm (5568 words)

	French: "Negative Capability," "Dispersal" and the Containment of Emotion
		Negative Capability indicates the capacity to contain emotion for the sake of the work and, as a result, to use emotion as information for understanding the work.
		Negative Capability was, therefore, the final – though also itself provisional – ‘dovetailing’ of concepts in Keats’ emerging view of the nature of the poetic imagination.
		The aim of organizational consultancy is to provide individuals, groups or the whole organization with an external Negative Capability – well enough and for long enough – to enable them to develop, in themselves and in their structures and procedures, sufficient capacity to drop their habitual patterns of dispersal.
	www.ispso.org /Symposia/London/2000French.htm (6596 words)

	Vg Diagram
		The subject airplane in the illustration is capable of developing no more than one positive "g" at 62 mph, the wing level stall speed of the airplane.
		Essentially the same situation exists for negative lift flight with the exception that the speed necessary to produce a given negative load factor is higher than that to produce the same positive load factor.
		Point B is the intersection of the negative limit load factor and line of maximum negative lift capability.
	www.faatest.com /books/FLT/Chapter17/VgDiagram.htm (629 words)

	Al Provinziano on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn
		This editorial action submerged the negative capability movements of the speaker because they intensify the separateness of the urn from the speaker, when the idea of negative capability is a fusionwith the object - but not separateness - of the poet with the aesthetic object (see appendix on the Negative Capability).
		Keats' theory on the "negative capability" is a conception of poetry which concentrates oncapturin the intensity of emotion and communicating this feeling via the imagination.
		While the usual impetus is to minimally recognize an object, the negative capability allows for that same object to become truth because it meets with the human intensity of emotion, comes to represent that truth.
	www.clayfox.com /ashessparks/reports/al.html (3280 words)

	Negative Capability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Negative Capability is a theory of the poet John Keats, expressed in his letter to George and Thomas Keats dated Sunday, 21 December 1817.
		Keats believed that great people (especially poets) have the ability to accept that not everything can be resolved.
		More recently, negative capability has played an important role in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, where it is used to describe the state in which one must be to communicate with supernatural Dust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Negative_Capability (180 words)

	Being Positive and Avoiding Negativity: Management challenge of positive vs negative
		The qualification "negative" is a designation applied when their worldview is threatened, whereas "positive" is usually applied to themselves to "disguise the fantasy they have of a given situation".
		The development of negative capability is discussed but it is suggested that its status is problematic in the context of a societal and organizational culture dominated by control and performativity.
		The practice of negative capability is illustrated throughout the article, using a case study of the leadership of an international joint venture.
	laetusinpraesens.org /docs00s/positive.php (9665 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - John Keats' Negative Capability
		I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
		Negative Capability asks us to allow the atmosphere of Keats' poems to surround us without picking out individual meanings and inconsistencies.
		Keats' Negative Capability is the ability to bask in the beautiful without questioning either it or his methods of description.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A813962 (754 words)

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		By defining “Negative Capability” and comparing it with his “Ode on Melancholy,” a better understanding of Keats’ intentions and expectations of this term may be seen.
		He states, “The excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate” (Keats 12/21/1817.) Therefore, art should be so moving that it rids the viewer of all other elements except those needed for a “fusion of object and mind” (Bates 14).
		To experience the union of reality and the mind as described in the first issue of “Negative Capability,” there must be no trace of the artist’s identity, as he must be open to all observations and possibilities.
	www.unc.edu /~oakes/ViscomiKeats.doc (1031 words)

	Negative Capability
		Keats believed that great people (especially poets, whom he considered to almost be on another level to the rest of humanity) had the ability to accept that not every thing can be resolved - being capable of remaining negative on something.
		Keats was a Romantic and believed that truth does not lie in science and philosophical reasoning, but in art.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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		"Capability" comes from the Latin word capabilis, which means "able to hold." So when we speak of being capable, the emphasis is not on ability, but on the specific ability to become a container, to become the urn.
		So, it seems, Beginner’s Mind is part of the definition of Negative Capability, as is the ability to live with failure, to exist in a negative space.
		Negative Capability is a call to failure, a call to uncertainty, a call to question, a call to mystery, and to the peace of mind and the peace with others that naturally accompany these.
	www.cliftonunitarian.com /toddstalks/negativecapability.htm (1864 words)

	Correction--Metanoia for the Masses
		when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." In other words, Keats praised the ability to be comfortable in not-knowing, to be able to proceed in the creative act of living without certainty or conclusions.
		I explained to them that once they put their stumbling blocks in the envelope, they would remain there for 30 days, during which time, they would be protected by a high-energy field of negative capability.
		Into the "Negative Capability Zone" go our thoughts such as "If Jesus had actually ascended literally he would have ended up in orbit, not in Heaven," and "It's highly unlikely that Jesus was actually born in Bethlehem," and so on.
	blogs.salon.com /0003124/2004/03/25.html (2457 words)

	Negative Capability and Religious Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Such a capability, though characterized as “negative,” is absolutely a rarity in our time, if it was not during the time of Dewey’s life.
		I reply that this endeavor of religious education, an education that embodies the “Negative Capability” of Shakespeare in regard to world and humans, is certainly a risk.
		To be this sort of exemplary educator is to embody “negative capability” to its fullest, which may have the practical effect of emptying a person – of pretensions, prejudices, anesthetics, false securities, defenses, charitable claims, and moral pride.
	www.american-philosophy.org /archives/2004_Conference/submissions/dp-6.htm (5647 words)

	Encyclopedia: Negative Capability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on the context and their methodologies.
		Ode to a Nightingale is a poem written by John Keats in May, 1819 (published 1820).
		Category: Philosophy The Mansion of Many Apartments is a theory of the poet John Keats, expressed in his letter to John Hamilton Reynolds dated Sunday, 3 May 1818.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Negative-Capability (706 words)

	KeatsOdes
		The excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth [.
		Keats' theory of "negative capability" is concerned with a particular state of poetic receptivity that makes literary creation possible.
		For Keats, then, the urn in "Ode to a Grecian Urn," is an object that speaks a truth and a beauty, but that truth and beauty are understood by the negative capability of the artist.
	www.dbu.edu /mitchell/keatsode.htm (456 words)

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		The first is, 'Negative Capability', a term borrowed by the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion from one of Keats' letters, to describe the capacity to contain emotion and, as a result, to use emotion as information for understanding.
		The roles of, amongst others, therapist, organizational consultant and manager provide an 'external' Negative Capacity by means of which others can come to know their own particular modes of 'dispersal'.
		I would be grateful for any response - especially from anyone who finds that the basic notions of Negative Capability and/or dispersal turn out to be applicable in their work situations.
	www.uwe.ac.uk /bbs/trr/Issue3/Is3-2_1a.htm (393 words)

	Janus Head 3.2 / Robert Romanyshyn - Psychology is Useless; Or, It Should Be
		Each opens that space of negative capability which parts the veil of conventional wisdom, and in those moments we are stirred in the depths of Soul before touched at the surface of mind.
		Keats' notion of negative capability is the abyss at whose edge the poet dwells, and where the psychologist as failed poet belongs.
		The facts which negative capability eschews are generated by an empirical sensibility, and the reasons by a rational one.
	www.janushead.org /3-2/romanyshyn.cfm (5043 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on An analysis and response to John Keats' "Lamia", involving his concept of negative capability ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dissertations, Essays on An analysis and response to John Keats' "Lamia", involving his concept of negative capability and the question of truth in the Romantic era.
		An analysis and response to John Keats' "Lamia", involving his concept of negative capability and the question of truth in the Romantic era.
		Title: An analysis and response to John Keats' "Lamia", involving his concept of negative capability and the question of truth in the Romantic era.
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	Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poetry is often created from the desire to escape the logical, as well as expressing feelings and other expressions in a tight, condensed manner.
		English Romantic poet John Keats termed this escape from logic Negative Capability.
		Prose poetry combines the characteristics of poetry with the superficial appearance of prose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poetry (1708 words)

	Stauder, "Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Doty’s 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'", Romanticism and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At the same time, their play with, even erasure of, gender boundaries is a form of negative capability that is psycho-social as well as artistic.
		This is the place of negative capabilities, a living manifestation and dissolution without the impulse to resolve the erasure of distinctions.
		The darkness audible of "Nocturne in Black and Gold" and the burnished darkness of these paintings is the nexus of the given and the made, the constructed, formal language built always in the face of mutability and death.
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/poetics/stauder/stauder.html (5537 words)

	"Kubla Khan" and the Implied Critic's Decision Style
		But Schneider's work gives, time and again, evidence of her high degree of negative capability, in her dynamic and "oscillating" reading as well as in her refutations of critical practices that are characteristic of the quest for certitude.
		Second, such negative concepts as measureless, infinite become, on the one hand, positive when they are presented as enormous, as exceeding the scope of perception or of imagination; on the other hand, they become emblems of what may be called "absolute size", and mediately, of "ultimate" experiences.
		Before my last quotation from Bodkin on caverns, I must observe that she made negative capability an explicit and deliberate part of her method, in the sense of "to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts".
	www.tau.ac.il /~tsurxx/Kubla_1.html (19202 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Creativity cannot be hurried
		Keats called it negative capability, "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
		Even if we are not original thinkers, we need a degree of negative capability to understand certain disciplines.
		In a slower, quieter time, negative capability probably came more naturally, but we may have to make a special effort to cultivate what Wordsworth called "wise passiveness".
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1202245,00.html (1203 words)

	End Notes: Skinwalkers and Shapeshifters: Wabash and the Nurturing of "Negative Capability"
		Skinwalkers and Shapeshifters: Wabash and the Nurturing of "Negative Capability"
		I had the unmitigated temerity to suggest to these hundreds of gathered academics that since we are what we read, writers-and the students at their respective colleges and universities-had to be exposed to quality fiction in order ever to have a chance at the Negative Capability necessary for any writer.
		I used Andre Gide's quote, "the only true education comes from what goes contrary to you" and went further to suggest that in this day and age of low educational standards, what goes counter to the majority of first-year college students encountering literature is a rigorous study of what used to be called the canon.
	www.wabash.edu /magazine/1998/spring/features/end.htm (1025 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Fancie
		A Negative Capability showcases Elisabeth Wood's soft soprano.
		Wood's lyrics are so original that I hate to miss any of them, and if that lower register is going to become a permanent practice, then I'm sure that with time she'll discover more ways to manipulate her voice.
		Wood follows her imagination and lets it take her music where it will, which is anything but a negative capability.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/apr-23-01/fancie.html (447 words)

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