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World-Making and Grammatical Impasse

World-Making and Grammatical Impasse daniel colucciello barber Not least from its ability to stand at times for both the earth itself and for what is on the earth or indeed in the purview of one individual, the concept of the world has always had a great deal of latitude: it can be at once geographical and intellectual. [T]here is a long tradition of equating the concept of the world with the idea of Europe. Sean Gaston, The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida1 [T]he slave's inhabitation of the earth precedes and exceeds any prior relation to land--landlessness. And selflessness is the correlate. No ground for identity, no ground to stand (on). Jared Sexton, "The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign"2 The Field of the World To speak of the secular is to speak of the world. Or, more precisely, it is to speak of the age of the world, which for Christianity marked a time between the Christ's advent and return, and which for the secular modern came to mark a time in which "religion" would be superseded. However one goes about parsing the continuities and/ or discontinuities of Christianity and the secular,3 one ends up with qui http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

World-Making and Grammatical Impasse

Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences , Volume 25 (1) – Dec 2, 2016
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daniel colucciello barber Not least from its ability to stand at times for both the earth itself and for what is on the earth or indeed in the purview of one individual, the concept of the world has always had a great deal of latitude: it can be at once geographical and intellectual. [T]here is a long tradition of equating the concept of the world with the idea of Europe. Sean Gaston, The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida1 [T]he slave's inhabitation of the earth precedes and exceeds any prior relation to land--landlessness. And selflessness is the correlate. No ground for identity, no ground to stand (on). Jared Sexton, "The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign"2 The Field of the World To speak of the secular is to speak of the world. Or, more precisely, it is to speak of the age of the world, which for Christianity marked a time between the Christ's advent and return, and which for the secular modern came to mark a time in which "religion" would be superseded. However one goes about parsing the continuities and/ or discontinuities of Christianity and the secular,3 one ends up with qui

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