Appelation(s): Naming, Labelling, Addressing. Introduction

The name hidden in its potency possesses a power of manifestation and occultation, of revelation and encrypting. What does it hide? Precisely the abyss that is enclosed within it. To open a name is to find in it not something but rather something like an abyss, the abyss as the thing in itself. Der...

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Main Author: Sturgess, Charlotte
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:The name hidden in its potency possesses a power of manifestation and occultation, of revelation and encrypting. What does it hide? Precisely the abyss that is enclosed within it. To open a name is to find in it not something but rather something like an abyss, the abyss as the thing in itself. Derrida, 226-7 The collection of articles in this issue of Commonwealth Essays and Studies constitutes an investigation into the epistemological premises and the discursive instances of a culturally f...