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• Allonomy (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the constitutive otherness-of-self that is more originary than any autonomy. From Greek allos (other) + nomos (law): "his own law is other than himself" (Fragile Skin II §3 a). The diagnostic operates at three registers: (…

• 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…

• Embodied Act of Framing

  Lisa van Sorge's (2025) signature concept and the constructive thesis of her synthesis of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida for a contemporary phenomenological aesthetics. Embodied act of framing names painting reread as the embodied subject's two…

• 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…

• Flesh as Element

  Merleau-Ponty's central late ontological concept: the flesh (chair) is not matter, not mind, not substance, but an "element" in the Presocratic sense — water, earth, fire, air. The canonical definition is in V&I Ch 4, p. 139-140: "What we…

• 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…

• Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology Maurice Merleau-Ponty (ed. Leonard Lawlor with Bettina Bergo), 2002

  Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty; edited by Leonard Lawlor with Bettina Bergo Year: 2002 (course delivered 1959–60; notes preserved at Bibliothèque Nationale) Type: Course notes + editorial apparatus

• Jean-Luc Nancy

  French philosopher (1940-2021), major figure in contemporary continental philosophy. Author of works on community (The Inoperative Community), the body (Corpus, Corpus II, Sexistence, Marquage manquant), art (The Muses, Noli me tangere, Ad…

• 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…

• Leonard Lawlor

  American philosopher and translator; Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University (since 2008; formerly Faudree-Hardin University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, where he served from 1990–2008).…

• 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…

• Maurice Blanchot

  French writer, philosopher, and literary critic (22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003; cremated 24 February 2003). Author of Thomas l'obscur (1941), Aminadab (1942), Le Très-Haut (1948), La part du feu (1949), L'espace littéraire (1955), L…

• Mediated Unity vs. Immediate Duality

  Leonard Lawlor's most precise structural formula for the Derrida–Deleuze diffraction (Ch 8 §§II–III of Thinking through French Philosophy, summer 2001). Mediated unity (Derrida): two sides of any opposition (presence/non-presence, expressi…

• 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

• Painting as an Embodied Act of Framing: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics with Merleau-Ponty and Derrida Lisa van Sorge, 2025

  Author(s): Lisa van Sorge (Tilburg University) Year: 2025 (Accepted 22 April 2025; Published online 25 July 2025) Type: paper (Open Access, CC-BY-4.0; journal not stated in extracted PDF metadata)

• 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…

• Point of Diffraction

  Leonard Lawlor's central neologism (borrowed from Foucault AS 87/65 but recoded): the productive lack that generates a system of philosophical options when a generation of thinkers attempts to solve the same problem. For Lawlor the point o…

• 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…

• Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question Leonard Lawlor, 2003

  Author: Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy) · Year: 2003 · Type: book (collected essays, revised; Indiana University Press, Studies in Continental Thought series)

• Time-to-Come / À-venir (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the temporal mode of the time-to-come, distinct from future-as-calculable-projection. From Fragile Skin I §1: "The to-come (to write it in this way) . . . would be the pre-sence of the present, that which does not yet take…

• 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…

• Vanishing Ontology (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the late-period ontological formulation in which Being is no prior or ultimate given but a sending or referral — being-as-being-toward. Locus classicus: Fragile Skin II §3 e (raw 573): "Ontology vanishes here — or makes it…

• 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…