Exemplarity and Chosenness by Hollander Dana

Author:Hollander, Dana
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

These propositions are paired by Derrida in order to express a primary or constitutive self-difference at the heart of any purported unity of language, idiom, or identity. Similarly to the I‘Un se garde de l’autre that was a focal point in the discussion of Yerushalmi, these sentences are meant to point to a duplicity that precedes and constitutes the unity of identity. Commenting upon Abdelkebir Khatibi’s portrayal of language as always already bilingual, or bi-language (bi-langue), and “divided,”25 Derrida writes that this “division” (division)

is why one writes and how one dreams of writing, perhaps. And that is why, two motivations instead of one, a single reason but a reason wrought by the said “division,” that is why in always doing so one recollects, one troubles oneself/becomes uneasy [on s‘inquiète], one goes in search of [en quête de] history and filiation. In this place of jealousy, in this place that is divided/shared [partagé] by vengeance and resentment [ressentirnent], in this body impassioned by its own “division,” before any other memory, writing destines itself, as if of its own accord, to anamnesis. (Mono, 22/8)

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