Abstract
The currency of post-structuralism is alterity. Otherness, absence, difference, lack, non-identity, misrecognition, incommensurability, discontinuity, simulacra stand in opposition to ‘bare pure being’,2 the originary presence of the self to itself.
it is a dead world [the poststructuralists] are building.1
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Meredith, F. (2005). Introduction. In: Experiencing the Postmetaphysical Self. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504332_1
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