Where Thinking Is Not What We Think
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4271330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mairã©ad Hanrahan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 179-195 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2006.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W2017215432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article offers a reading of Hélène Cixous's Jours de l'an (First Days of the Year), the first of many texts by Cixous to feature the problematic of an unwritten book which would be at the origin of all her other books. In particular, it examines the relationship between the text as a whole and its final chapter, "An Ideal Story," in the light of Heidegger's notion of thinking as digression, arguing that for Cixous the search for truth takes a necessarily oblique, indirect form. After consideration of the detours the text takes via Clarice Lispector and Marina Tsvetaeva, it contends that the story Cixous ends up telling runs counter to the one it set out to tell, simultaneously taking its place and reaffirming the need to tell it yet again
Art · Digression · Epistemology · Feature (linguistics) · Ideal (ethics) · Linguistics · Literature · Oblique case · Reading (process) · Set (abstract data type) · Computer Science · French Literature and Critical Theory · History · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |