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Document Details : Title: Lieu d'être et non présence Subtitle: De la promotion d'un espace dialogique sans interlocuteurs ni progrès dans quelques écrits de Deligny Author(s): LION, Clément Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 86 Issue: 4 Date: 2024 Pages: 661-686 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.86.4.3294485 Abstract : The hypothesis at stake here is that Deligny’s form of writing corresponds to a form of dialogy which is much more radical than what is usually called by this name, most prominently after Bakhtine’s studies on Dostoyevsky. We show that in order to think of such a dialogism, one must make sense of a space, whose properties are of another order than uniform and homogeneous, but depend on the notion of a pure exteriority that excludes any sharing of common references as much as it excludes any well-defined identity of meaning. Paradoxically, dialogical writing in this sense expresses itself through the acceptance of not understanding the otherness of another person, rather than through the attempt to make it possible by locating every point of view into a common space: acknowledging the point of view of the other would be a way to reduce it to a space submitted to the power of consciousness and discourse, i.e., to a space of presence, which is a temporalized space. By contrast, the radically dialogical form of writing and of tracing that is to be found in Deligny’s books must be interpreted according to the attempt to make space free from any sharing of a common language, thus letting space be a pure expression of lived divergence. We finish the paper with a comparison between Faulkner’s fictitious rendering of the autistic way of being in The Sound and the Fury and Deligny’s own 'tentative'. This comparison forces us to introduce some shades in the understanding of what spatial divergence means. |
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