Kristian Olesen Toft
Biographic Data
| ID | 6449827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristian Olesen Toft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristian Olesen |
| FAMILY NAME | Toft |
| SIGNATURE | TOFT K O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3760-7928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Translating Khora
Khora, as it figures in Plato’s Timaeus, as read by Jacques Derrida, poses a singular translation problem, not only for having more than one meaning, but also for having less than one. This might be thought of in terms of Derrida’s distinction between ‘polysemy’ and ‘dissemination’, in so far as any concept of translation will ‘re-mark’ a translation or reception of something like khora, the ‘all-receiving’. This means both that khora is untransl…
Tout le monde . Descartes’ World
René Descartes plays a small but pivotal role in Jacques Derrida’s 1961–62 course, ‘The Notion of World’. In contrast, one finds the world everywhere in Descartes’ own texts, from the Discourse on Method to The World. A more extensive discussion of Descartes’ world is found in Derrida’s 1981/82 seminar, Language and the Discourse on Method, which takes up Descartes’ travels throughout the world, a spacing before Cartesian extension, and the tensi…
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Translating Khora
Khora, as it figures in Plato’s Timaeus, as read by Jacques Derrida, poses a singular translation problem, not only for having more than one meaning, but also for having less than one. This might be thought of in terms of Derrida’s distinction between ‘polysemy’ and ‘dissemination’, in so far as any concept of translation will ‘re-mark’ a translation or reception of something like khora, the ‘all-receiving’. This means both that khora is untransl…
Tout le monde . Descartes’ World
René Descartes plays a small but pivotal role in Jacques Derrida’s 1961–62 course, ‘The Notion of World’. In contrast, one finds the world everywhere in Descartes’ own texts, from the Discourse on Method to The World. A more extensive discussion of Descartes’ world is found in Derrida’s 1981/82 seminar, Language and the Discourse on Method, which takes up Descartes’ travels throughout the world, a spacing before Cartesian extension, and the tensi…
Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Cartesianism (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Extension (predicate logic (1 work) · French Literature and Criticism (1 work)