philosophemes

One result of this implicit claim is that those working in cultural studies may sometimes be mystified, unknowingly, by unexamined philosophemes that go back to Aristotle and that have persisted in our culture down to Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Lacan, Deleuze and

Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008

For "deconstruction," the term that most comprehensively describes Derrida's own effort, is the term by which he very neatly transforms he would not say "translates" the Heideggerian term "destruction":I try to respect as rigorously as possible the internal, regulated play of philosophemes or epistimemes by making them slide—-without mistreating them-—to the point of their nonpertinence, their exhaustion, their closure.

enowning enowning 2008

For "deconstruction," the term that most comprehensively describes Derrida's own effort, is the term by which he very neatly transforms he would not say "translates" the Heideggerian term "destruction":I try to respect as rigorously as possible the internal, regulated play of philosophemes or epistimemes by making them slide—-without mistreating them-—to the point of their nonpertinence, their exhaustion, their closure.

Archive 2008-07-01 enowning 2008

It's crucial to the system of truth and trope being one, to the spreading out from the basic philosophemes, or metaphors, of all the analogies, and all the truth statements, that it will be possible to find or to make.

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

What seem our metaphor-philosophemes might as well be a list of "figures": a list of names.

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

The indispensable metaphor-philosophemes Derrida has tracked in Aristotle appear (in both Aristotle's text and Derrida's) in the context of a conceptualization of metaphor or figure.

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

Derrida drops philosophemes into "a wider discourse of figuration."

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

There have been all those analogies, an extending and continuous fabric of light — analogies, figures all like or comparable to one or another quality of the sun; all those metaphor-philosophemes we couldn't do without (like "light" and like "like.")

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

A metaphor says A says B. "White Mythology" has been reading Aristotle and showing that statements of truth come in the form of metaphor and in reflections about metaphor, and that in these inaugural texts, what one finds are metaphors which are philosophemes: which can be stated, and also offered in example, like truth, light.

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

To this listin effect, the philosophemes of human finitudewe might add one other term: the lived body, especially its affects.

Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000