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(2005) Blanchot's vigilance, Dordrecht, Springer.
According to the classical conception of the relationship between the philosopher and language he or she is obligated to use, the doctrine of the philosopher elevates itself above its expression; language is a medium, the tool that subordinates itself to the delivery of the message. On this account, there is a clearly determined relationship between the constative and the performative, the philosophical and the rhetorical, the philosophical and the poetical. Hyperbolic language of whatever kind-the flourish of the author, the vivid image, the life-giving metaphor-would be an exaggeration of a univocal philosophical language that, whilst excessive, might still be safely paraphrased. But what if this hyperbolisation resisted translation into a calmer, more philosophical idiom? What if there was a language of thought that disrupted the classical relation between philosophy and language?
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Iyer, L. (2005). Nothing is what there is, in Blanchot's vigilance, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 117-132.
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