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Religious Echoes of the Errant Text: Darker Shades of Derrida's Pathless Way
Author(s) -
Almond Ian
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2265.00225
Subject(s) - literature , philosophy , reflexive pronoun , aesthetics , art
I employ these words, I admit, with a glance towards the operations of childbearing–but also with a glance towards those who, in a society from which I do not exclude myself, turn their eyes away when faced by the as yet unnameable which is proclaiming itself and which can do so …only under the species of the nonspecies, in the formless, mute, infant and terrifying form of monstrosity. The question of writing could be opened only if the book was closed. The joyous wandering of the graphein then became wandering without return.