Hier(an)archy from this post:
Yes, but I prefer a distinct, sacred kind of anarchy called hier(an)archy, a term coined by Caputo. Recall this from the Caputo thread in the old Gaia forum, referencing his book The Weakness of God (IUP, 2006):
Yes, but I prefer a distinct, sacred kind of anarchy called hier(an)archy, a term coined by Caputo. Recall this from the Caputo thread in the old Gaia forum, referencing his book The Weakness of God (IUP, 2006):
Caputo:
To be sure, by advocating différance
Derrida does not advocate outright chaos. He does not favor a
simple-minded street-corner anarchy (nothing is ever simple) that would
let lawlessness sweep over the land, although that is just what his most
simplistic and anxious critics take him to say. For that would amount
to nothing more than a simple counter-kingdom, a reign of
lawlessness….Just like a simple totalitarianism…the opposite way, a
simple anarchy would break the tension between the arche and the
an-arche, erasing the slash between power and powerlessness….in “Force
of Law” Derrida made it plain that deconstruction is not a matter of
leveling laws in order to produce a lawless society, but of
deconstructing laws in order to produce a just society. To deconstruct
the law means to 'negotiate the difference' between law and justice,
where the law is thought to be something finite, and ‘justice' calls up
an uncontainable event, an infinite or unconditional or
undeconstructable demand (27).
I've been exploring another version of
this hier(an)archic maintenance of the tension between the arche and the
an-arche in this thread with the "space between" and image schemas. And
the images provided are to symbolically represent those interstices.
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