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LACAN AND MEANING

SEXUATION, DISCOURSE THEORY, AND TOPOLOGY IN THE AGE OF HERMENEUTICS

CHAPTER 1

PETITIONS TO MEANING

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undercuts its own efforts at reaching the underlying ontological foundation of the schema whenever it overlooks the productivity of the gap inherent to the schema. As a correction, Ricoeur sets ‘distanciation’ as the very condition of understanding. But far from breaking the hermeneutical circle of meaning, this only serves to solidify its a priori reign.

It seems the subject will need to withdraw from hermeneutics altogether if a true distance from meaning is desired. We examine some fields of thought offering this possibility beginning with the next chapter.

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