TY - JOUR
T1 - Words, silence, experiences
T2 - Derrida's unheimlich responsibility
AU - Scott, Charles E.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - In its engagement with Derrida's unheimlich responsibility elaborated in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume One, this essay is about death, words, silence, and lives of people and animals. It is also about experiences that to varying degrees bring lives to words and words to lives. Its guiding hypotheses are that death, words, silence, and lives in their happenings exceed the laws that function to identify them and that none of their happenings is sovereign in relation to the others. The essay culminates with Derrida's engagement with ungrounded time when completion and beginning are simultaneous. That simultaneity constitutes a threshold in which people must respond. For Derrida the threshold is shadowed by his own approaching death.
AB - In its engagement with Derrida's unheimlich responsibility elaborated in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume One, this essay is about death, words, silence, and lives of people and animals. It is also about experiences that to varying degrees bring lives to words and words to lives. Its guiding hypotheses are that death, words, silence, and lives in their happenings exceed the laws that function to identify them and that none of their happenings is sovereign in relation to the others. The essay culminates with Derrida's engagement with ungrounded time when completion and beginning are simultaneous. That simultaneity constitutes a threshold in which people must respond. For Derrida the threshold is shadowed by his own approaching death.
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U2 - 10.1163/15691640-12341354
DO - 10.1163/15691640-12341354
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85014819248
SN - 0085-5553
VL - 47
SP - 19
EP - 38
JO - Research in Phenomenology
JF - Research in Phenomenology
IS - 1
ER -