La khôra du Timée de Platon dans la pensée de Jacques Derrida
(2023)
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- Lisse, Michel
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- This thesis presents an examination of the concept of khôra in Plato's Timaeus within the framework of Jacques Derrida's thinking, encompassing his early texts up to his latest publications. Furthermore, the analysis draws upon previously unpublished seminars in which Derrida engages with this notion. In the Greek language, khôra denotes both the space occupied by a body and the interval. Despite a few instances where Derrida alludes to a khôra that appears to initiate an alternative understanding of matter, diverging from the Aristotelian interpretation, the present research contends that he primarily emphasizes the significance of khôra as a "place" or "location" in both of the aforementioned senses. The first and second parts of this thesis situate the research problem by referencing select works of Heidegger and Hegel. According to Derrida, these two philosophers exemplify two main modes of metaphysical appropriation (namely hermeneutic and onto-theological, respectively) that the concept of khôra challenges and enables a different way of thinking. In the third part of the thesis, a more direct exploration of Derrida's interpretation of khôra is undertaken by extending certain lines of inquiry that he provides. In this context, particular attention is given to the notion of "necessity" (Anankè), elucidated through its interconnection with Freud's concept of the death drive. The inclusion of these three influential figures (Heidegger, Hegel, and Freud) serves to demonstrate the interplay among their respective conceptual frameworks, as well as the ways in which, according to Derrida, Plato's discourse on khôra anticipates and subverts them.
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Hernandez Alonso, M. (2023). La khôra du Timée de Platon dans la pensée de Jacques Derrida. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/216974