That which makes something impossible is also what makes it possible, this kind of paradoxical thinking has been patented by Post-structuralists.
And who am I to contradict that; what makes a sign a sign is its difference from other signs; but this means that the difference which lends a sign its identity also makes it impossible for a sign to be complete in itself.
Got that?
Difference, as Jacques Derrida that arch bricolleur playfully puts it, both ‘broaches and breaches’ meaning.
Or take the idea, much touted by Slaoj Zizek, that blindness is the condition of insight, truth the upshot of misrecognition.
For Nietzsche, it is only a blessed state of amnesia that enables us to act, since otherwise we would simply be paralysed by the nightmare of history.
Take the law, if it is to maintain its august authority, it must erase the fact that it was originally imposed by an arbitrary act of violence. The law cannot have been established legally, since there was no law before the law.
So there put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Source Terry Eagleton
And who am I to contradict that; what makes a sign a sign is its difference from other signs; but this means that the difference which lends a sign its identity also makes it impossible for a sign to be complete in itself.
Got that?
Difference, as Jacques Derrida that arch bricolleur playfully puts it, both ‘broaches and breaches’ meaning.
Or take the idea, much touted by Slaoj Zizek, that blindness is the condition of insight, truth the upshot of misrecognition.
For Nietzsche, it is only a blessed state of amnesia that enables us to act, since otherwise we would simply be paralysed by the nightmare of history.
Take the law, if it is to maintain its august authority, it must erase the fact that it was originally imposed by an arbitrary act of violence. The law cannot have been established legally, since there was no law before the law.
So there put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Source Terry Eagleton
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