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differences (2019) 30 (2): 115–145.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Nazan Üstündağ This article addresses the question of what epistemic spaces women can occupy to produce truths other than that at the limit between life and death occupied by Antigone, a figure of truth widely celebrated in feminism and beyond. It reflects in particular on the mother, the woman...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Ed Cohen In his last years lecturing at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault repeatedly alighted on the figure of the psychagogue as an exemplar of “living philosophy.” The psychagogue, in contradistinction to his confrere the pedagogue, addresses the truth by addressing the soul, the psyche...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 51–92.
Published: 01 September 2013
... extricate. Reading Badiou’s philosophy creatively, the essay makes the case that women or woman is an emergent, historical, modern, and universal truth; direct critique of Badiou also drives home the point that philosophy (or “theory”) is vulnerable to history and that historically, factually, actually...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 178–193.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., that is, would it constitute a “procedure of truth” that “throws us outside of ourselves”? Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2010 elizabeth cowie is Professor of Film Studies in the School of Drama, Film, and Visual Arts at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 93–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of Brennan’s archival papers, this article contextualizes Brennan’s inquiry with her theoretical influences in Freud, Klein, and Lacan. The essay concludes by reflecting on Brennan’s insights for the present “post-truth” political impasse, a discourse of personal feeling for which her theory provides...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 109–141.
Published: 01 September 2010
... was a key component of Romantic reimaginings of language as a productive force. While the native informant guarantees the referential truth of colonial discourse, this essay details the simultaneous emergence of a figure termed the ``native performant,'' who dramatizes the performative power of Western...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of the religious myth of immediate, surface reading or the empiricist conception of the text as veiled truth, these approaches proclaim their critical “innocence” and disavow the metalanguages that bring the textual surface into view. Rooney argues that the figure of terrain enables a reading that confesses its...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 73–102.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of disposedness that both limits and opens, contracts and dilates. Habit, in this expansive sense, can be redirected not only to refashion the routines through which we inhabit our shared habitats but also to transform the rituals through which we inhabit truth. The essay argues that, as the variable amplitude...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 May 2021
... for its further application; on the other, the essay researches the origins of the notion in Michel Foucault’s formulation of regime of truth. After a brief account of the Bulgarian reception of Foucault’s work, the text turns to Foucault’s early monograph The Order of Things (1966) to explore the paths...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 May 2023
... deformation of identity to communicate what, after the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, could be called the “bare truth” of subject formation past even the need for subjects. Bersani’s thought and writing map the coordinates of this both safely enclosed and dangerously unregulated terrain in order...
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 63–84.
Published: 01 April 1991
... self-decentering, or a global intifada of the margins against the center, of postphilosophy's murder of truth, the subject, the solidity of the earth, and the promise of the heavens? Ambiguity on these issues itself accords with postmodern dissembling of origins, headquarters, engines of development...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 90–125.
Published: 01 December 2008
... romantic love, characterizing opposite-sex relations as warfare and enmity. He also consistently sexualizes epistemology, metaphorizing truth as the female body and male philosophers as her pursuers, yet all the while insisting...
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 140–149.
Published: 01 July 1993
... of poststructuralism with Nazism, philosophical anti-foundationalism with AIDS, gay sadomasochistic sex with love of political cruelty, and the "death of the subject" with indifference to life - all were ripe for expose as the metonymic workings of Miller's psyche rather than what he cast as the lamentable truth about...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 197–205.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Number 3  doi 10.1215/10407391-1892934 © 2012 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 198 Initial Conditions truth with which cross-cultural...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 93–104.
Published: 01 July 1989
... to the truth of sameness and install her more certainly in the old machine ofphallogocentrism, along with her peer, the student who rebels by a merely optical inversion, which is to say the disciplined disciple of the master. 1 Who is it that can learn from "woman"? Derrida asks the question even as he...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 160–174.
Published: 01 December 2013
... .” New York Times 25 Feb. 2009 . Dilthey Wilhelm . An Introduction to the Human Sciences . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1989 . Gadamer Hans-Georg . Truth and Method . New York : Continuum , 1975 . Marcus Jon . “ In Era of High Cost Humanities Come under Attack...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 139–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... In our language, when one says “Man” with a capital M and “Woman” with a capital W . . . it’s not at all the same, not at all, because “Man” with a capital M means “mankind.” Woman with a capital W means . . . “Truth” or things like...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 May 2003
...,  iek’s assertion that Derrida ’s “hyper-self-reflective approach [. . .] denounces the question of ‘how things really are ’” (232) prompts Butler to remind us of Derrida ’s continual questioning of “truth” and to speculate on its...
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 144–158.
Published: 01 April 1991
... higher and better things, your truth, your law, and you yourself, 0 Lord our God. (48) Thus he admonishes men: "If the things of this world delight you, praise God for them but turn your love away from them and give it to their Maker (82). Augustine's second ground for repudiating bodily things...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 141–176.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the social bond to access the truth of the obsessive’s dilemma and vice versa. This mediation, I conclude, is the work of politics. In sum, I conceive of the social and political solidarity of castrated (masculine) and not-all castrated (feminine) subjects—whatever their respective choice of neurosis...
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