Re: 09: Her Mortal Birth by Rich
If trace is the essence of Being that haunts language, the problematique is with Speech not Being. Specifically the disclose of Being in "das einzige Wort", (Messiah, Other, Avatar) - e.g. the alliance of speech and being in one word - is that which requires vigilance and "austerity of erasure". Erasure precedes rupture and clears a horizon for the disclosure of the Other /Avatar, and the re-inscription of Trace. But the possibility of this play of absence and presence closes itself off when in literalizing presence (the one word) our hermeneutic agility fails and we attempt constrain the unnameable to a single name.
Derrida on Heidegger:
Therefore, in order to name the essential nature of Being (das wesende Seins), language would have to find a single word, the unique word (ein einziges, das einzige Wort). From this we can gather how daring every thoughtful word (denkende Wort) addressed to Being is (das dem Sein zugesprochen wird). Nevertheless such daring is not impossible, since Being speaks always and everywhere throughout language" (p. 52).
Such is the question: the alliance of speech and Being in the unique word, in the finally proper name. And such is the question inscribed in the simulated affirmation of différance. It bears (on) each member of this sentence: "Being / speaks / always and everywhere / throughout / language." (Derrida)
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