Provocative coincidences: the question as style's dissimulating face - writing beyond the aporias of the subject

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aut.researcherO'Connor, Maria Therese Scarlet
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, M
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-08T03:24:08Z
dc.date.available2012-04-08T03:24:08Z
dc.date.copyright2006
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractJacques Derrida’s text, Spurs: The Styles of Nietzsche is an interrogation of aspects of Nietzsche’s writings in reference to the question of “Woman.” And, we should not forget the complexity of engagements with quotation marks, and issues of citation that form a central tenet of the text. Equally the title could have been translated: Spurs: The Styles of Nietzsche, where Nietzsche is referencing not a German philosopher of the late 19th century but a text by the philosopher Heidegger, titled Nietzsche. Prefigured here, within a Derridian framework, is a question of style’s capacity for spillage, performance and, perhaps, ethics (Derrida/Levinas) via an essence of provocation. That is, this kind of provocation or questioning essentially exists as style’s attestation for undoing truth as correctness. Within this coincidence of style with provocation we find resonances between literature and philosophy. Ultimately, this paper is engaged with these disciplines and the slippages and questions they have to offer each other via style’s performative agency — that is, when style operates at the limits of itself. In doing so, this paper explores via its performative engagement the provocative coincidences across Joan Copjec’s writing in Imagine There’s No Woman, and Derrida’s ‘At this Very Moment in This Work Here I Am’ never straying too far from its original Spur. An arrangement chosen as these texts activate philosophically a literary motif (Antigone) for ungrounding questions of woman and death in relation to ethics and style. Copjec is centrally concerned with how to deal with a Lacanian concept of woman and Derrida, more directly concerned with Levinas’s secondary dealing of woman as concept. This paper attempts through its performative clotural reading to evoke the coincidence of woman and style as “existence” within a world of immanence — writing beyond the aporias of the subject — beyond proposition.
dc.identifier.citationThe Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Tunis, Tunisia, pages 25 - 32
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/3632
dc.publisherAUT University
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dc.subjectDeconstruction (writing and reading)
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectEthics
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.subjectPhilosophy and literature
dc.subjectPhallogocentricsm
dc.subjectPsychoanalysis
dc.titleProvocative coincidences: the question as style's dissimulating face - writing beyond the aporias of the subject
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