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• Bêtise

  Bêtise — the French word that the Random House dictionary mistranslates as "stupidity" — is the seminar's most-developed concept and its index-case of untranslatability. BS-I devotes Sessions 5, 6, 7, and large parts of 8 and 12 to it, wit…

• Christian Semantics of Chair (Flesh)

  Preliminary stub (weave Pass 2, 2026-06-03) homing a HUB motif previously distributed across hand-of-god, haptocentrism, mondialisation-of-flesh, and flesh-as-element §"Positions" without a dedicated corpus-level page. The second of Derrid…

• Exscription

  Nancy's neologism (ex-scription, l'exscrit) for the writing-out of the body that exceeds inscription — the moment in writing where what is written exceeds writing itself, where sense exscribes the body that writing claims to inscribe. The…

• Haptical Différance

  Derrida's positive thesis (named at On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy p. 240) for the spacing, interruption, interposition, detour constitutive of any contact. Against the haptocentric tradition's thesis of immediate self-touch, Derrida argues th…

• Haptico-Transcendental Reduction

  Derrida's diagnostic name (in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy §13) for the risk — visible most clearly in Nancy's own Corpus and Une pensée finie — of reducing sense to touch as the transcendental of all sense. The Nancean formula "Sense IS tou…

• Haptocentrism

  Haptocentrism is Derrida's diagnostic name (coined in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy, 2000, p. 52) for the philosophical tradition that privileges touch (Greek haphē) as the sense of immediacy, contact, presence, and self-relation — making tou…

• Jacques Derrida

  French philosopher (1930–2004), founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Margins of Philosophy (1972), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Specters of Marx (1993), On Touch…

• Jacques Lacan

  French psychoanalyst (1901–1981), founder of the École freudienne de Paris and of a structuralist-linguistic rereading of Freud. For the purposes of this wiki, Lacan matters primarily as the author of "Le stade du miroir comme formateur du…

• Law of Tact

  Derrida's name (in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy §4, p. 77) for the quasi-transcendental commandment to touch without touching, prior to any religion, culture, or ritual abstinence. The law of tact is "the law itself, the law of the law": "on…

• Marionette

  The marionette is the figure where BS-I stages the undecidable threshold among mechanism, animal, human, and sovereign. "There are marionette and marionette" — the seminar's opening of S7 (p. 187). Derrida triangulates three "arts of the m…

• Mondialisation of Flesh

  Derrida's name (at On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy p. 247) for the over-extension of Husserlian Leiblichkeit — the globalization (mondialisation) of chair / flesh — beyond the self-affecting body to "things," "essences," and modes of experience…

• On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy Jacques Derrida, 2005

  Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2005 (orig. Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy, Galilée 2000; v1 essay "Le toucher: Touch/To Touch Him" in Paragraph 16:2, 1993, trans. Peggy Kamuf) · Type: book

• Parergon

  Derrida's figure for the structure that "disconcerts any opposition" between inside and outside of the work of art, developed in The Truth in Painting / La vérité en peinture (1978; trans. Bennington–McLeod 1987). The word — Greek παρέργον…

• Partage (Nancy)

  Nancy's untranslatable French term partage — simultaneously sharing out, apportioning, parting, partitioning, partaking — names the structure of "participation as much as irreducible partition" (Nancy, glossed by Derrida in On Touching—Jea…

• Pharmakon

  The word pharmakon — "remedy" and "poison," "drug," "charm" — under which Plato's Phaedrus stages its critique of writing, and which Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy" (in Dissemination) makes the lever for deconstructing the speech/writing hier…

• Political Fable (faire savoir, as-if, quasi-concept)

  The wiki's concept page for the fable as Derrida deconstructs it in BS-I: not as a literary genre external to political reason but as the internal mode of operation of political discourse itself. Valéry's late aphorism — "IN THE BEGINNING…

• Robinson Crusoe (figure)

  Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and its sequel Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) — read by Derrida (BS-II) as the first of two "isolated islands" of the seminar (the second bei…

• Se toucher toi (To Self-Touch You)

  Nancy's grammatical-philosophical figure (from Corpus p. 36) for the constitutive failure of pure self-touch — and one of Derrida's master-concepts in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (Part III, §§12–13). The French phrase se toucher toi — "to s…

• Sovereignty

  The wiki's master concept page for sovereignty as deconstructed by Derrida in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I (2001–2002) and Volume II (2002–2003), and as adjacently critiqued by Chouraqui (2021) ch. 9 from the MP-side. Sovereignty…

• Survivance / sur-vivance

  Derrida's late concept of trace, developed most explicitly in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II (2002–2003), session 5 (pp. 193–195): "a survivance whose 'sur-' is without superiority, without height, altitude or highness, and thus wi…

• Syncope (Nancy)

  Nancy's figure (developed across Le discours de la syncope: Logodaedalus (1976), Ego sum (1979), Corpus (1992), Une pensée finie (1990)) for the interruption-at-the-heart-of-contact — the rhythmic break, the cut, the gap, the diastolic/sys…

• The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I Jacques Derrida, 2009

  Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2008 FR / 2009 EN (seminar given 2001–2002) · Type: lecture-course (seminar at EHESS)

• The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II Jacques Derrida, 2011

  Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2010 FR / 2011 EN (seminar given 2002–2003) · Type: lecture-course (seminar at EHESS)

• The Hand of God

  The theologized organ that, on Derrida's reading in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (esp. §§7, 11), haunts the haptocentric tradition of touch. The figure runs from the biblical hand of God (Genesis, Exodus, the Psalms) through Aquinas's mutuus…

• Touching the Untouchable

  The structural figure — running from Aristotle's De Anima 424a (haptou kai anaptou: "touch has for its object both what is tangible and what is intangible") through the entire philosophical tradition of touch — that the object of touch is…

• Walten

  A German verb-and-noun-and-participle family — walten, das Walten, durchwalten, Mitwalten, umwalten, verwalten, Verwaltung, Übergewalt, vorwaltend, bewältigen, unbewältigt, Gewalt, Allgewalt, Gewalt-tat, Gewalt-tätigkeit — that Heidegger d…

• Wolf and Werewolf (loup-garou)

  The wolf is the saturating figure of BS-I — it opens the seminar (pas de loup, "stealthy as a wolf," S1 p. 1) and closes it (Jean-Clet Martin's Marcwulf at S13 pp. 340–343). Every session crosses the wolf in some register: as silent intrud…

• Zoo and Asylum (the autoptic-sovereign institution)

  The wiki's concept page for the structural-genealogical parallel BS-I develops between the zoological garden and the psychiatric hospital as twin sovereign-institutional spaces. Following Henri Ellenberger's "The Mental Hospital and the Zo…