in aporia

[Chris Burford]

At 25/10/01 14:03 -0700, you wrote:
>Chris Burford wrote:
>
> >You can spot initiates by those who slip the word "aporia" into
> >their communications.
>
>Hey, people at Yale were doing that in the early 70s, influenced by
>that crypto-Nazi, Paul de Man.
>
>Doug
>
>http://www.angelfire.com/biz/telospress/contents49.html
>Seyla Benhabib: Modernity and the Aporias of Critical Theory. Her book, "
>Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory.
>Columbia Univ. Press, 1986, " is excellent.

What can I say apart from the fact that I have obviously had the wrong 
education?

Even Google does not completely rescue me:


>Some commonly used terms in deconstructive theory:
>
>Aporia - the inherent contradictions found in any text. Derrida, for 
>example, cites the inherent contradictions at work in Jean-Jacques 
>Rousseau's use of the words culture and nature by demonstrating that 
>Rousseau's sense of the self's innocence (in nature) is already corrupted 
>by the concept of culture (and existence) and vice-versa.

I'll never pass for a left-wing socialite!

Chris Burford

London