Towards a Topology of Speaking. Derrida's Language of Denegation

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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.39.2017.16650

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Alterity, denegation, Derrida, negative theology, hospitality

Abstract

This paper analyzes Derrida’s conception of language as a topology of speaking through his readings of negative theology. This topology of speaking relativizes positions and boundaries of discourse and shows its radical incompleteness and its semantic unsaturation, configuring it as permanently open to alterity. In order to do this, the paper will expose Derrida’s conception of God as an excess or a continuously differing sense. Then, the relation between God as alterity of sense and language will be understood as a logic of denegation. This logic cancels the structure of predicative discourse and invites the reader to value language as a dynamics of prayer and promise.

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Author Biography

Juan Evaristo Valls Boix, Universitat de Barcelona

Becario de investigación predoctoral. Departamento de Filosofía, Facultad de Filosofía. C/Montalegre, 6, 4º piso, despacho 4023 08001 Barcelona. Este trabajo ha sido posible gracias a una ayuda del Subprograma de Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) del Programa Estatal de Promoción del Talento y su Empleabilidad.

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2017-06-23

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Valls Boix, J. E. (2017). Towards a Topology of Speaking. Derrida’s Language of Denegation. ENDOXA, (39), 327–346. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.39.2017.16650

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