JOURNAL ARTICLE

'We/One devastate(s) the world': Of Deserts, Chaos & Khōra.

  • Published In: Oxford Literary Review, 2024, v. 46, n. 2. P. 161 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Martell, James 3 of 3

Abstract

If the word 'devastated' feels most appropriate when thinking of the passing of a beloved one, it also undergirds, through the waste of its desert, two essential notions of Western philosophy and literature: chaos and khōra. Looking at our world twenty years after Derrida's passing, and at how for more than five decades he thought and wrote on the notion of world, this essay examines the radicality of Derrida's deconstruction for our past and future conceptions of a world, of ourselves, and of each and any threshold between these terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Oxford Literary Review. 2024/12, Vol. 46, Issue 2, p161
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:03051498
  • DOI:10.3366/olr.2024.0439
  • Accession Number:180993550
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