ON THE LINE: FRONTIERS, BORDERS, LIMITS, ENDS

Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University

May 24, 2022
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Haldeman Hall 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
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Comparative Literature Program
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On the Line, Frontiers, Borders, Limits, Ends
Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University
May 24, 2022, 5:00 pm PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME CHANGE.
Haldeman 041

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Sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Comparative Literature Program
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Derrida was fascinated by Heidegger's gesture of crossing through the word Sein in the 1955 "Zur Seinsfrage," a text in which Heidegger, responding to Ernst Jünger, also reflects on the ambiguity of the German expression "über die Linie," ("over the line" and/or "concerning the line"). To address the difficulties in play here, around lines, limits, frontiers, and crossings, I will take as my main focus Derrida's text "Apories" (in which he uses the word "frontière" more than anywhere else in his corpus), and attempt to elucidate and perhaps complicate his provisional distinction between three senses of the notion of frontier: the geo-political, the disciplinary, and the conceptual. I will attempt to understand what happens when we re-apply the results of that elucidation to that threefold distinction itself, and dwell on and in the resulting aporia that is arguably the very place where deconstruction is on the line.

 

Location
Haldeman Hall 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Sponsored by
Comparative Literature Program
Audience
Public
More information
Yi Wu