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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