Humberto González NúñezThe University of Texas at Dallas Volume 16, 2024 I. Introduction The question of khōra seems indissociably linked to the question of legacies and the possibility of the future. To illustrate this point, we need only remember that Derrida’s essay “Khōra” operates within the difference between the Platonic text and the hegemonic legacy of the...
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Raum and Rome: The Phonetics of the Word Raum. [1]
translated from the original german by: James L. KelleyIndependent scholar Volume 14, 2020 The word Raum (Space) is an instance of language that turns out to be Ur-language. It is an Ur-word and thus a part of the Ur-language.[2] Etymological elucidations of an Ur-word are based upon connections and references of uneven evidential value. The compelling and the...
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Idiom, Transmission, and Dance in Geschlecht III
Michael PortalTexas a&m university Volume 14, 2019 In reading Geschlecht III, one cannot help but imagine Jacques Derrida speaking before a weary audience, an audience exhausted by the many hours already spent (and still left to be spent) discussing Martin Heidegger’s reading of Georg Trakl’s poetry.[1] As Derrida remarks, “I can imagine the impatience of some, not only...