aporias

In all likelihood such aporias would have appeared to him as either a questionable unwillingness to take his point or as an unteachable sublimity.

Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

The Romantic aporias of self-consciousness are still to come.

Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

Hell, after a generation or two of postmodernism, I can get up in the morning and live my everyday life without constantly questioning the nature of individual identity or external reality even though I know that consensus reality is riddled with logical aporias and all of us so-called autonomous individuals are nothing more than textual epiphenomena.

From tonight's homework 2007

It is also reasonable to argue that, to be legitimately seen as a poetic encoder, the poet must be consciously making poetic choices: the difficulties or aporias should not result from laziness or incompetence.

Robin Lakoff: Palin the Poet 2009

“Force of Law,” Derrida lays out three aporias, although they all seem to be variants of one, an aporia concerning the unstable relation between law (the French term is “droit,” which also means “right”) and justice.

Jacques Derrida Lawlor, Leonard 2006

My friend launched upon a lengthy disquisition surveying the various approaches that she might take to expose the poem's aporias, to tease out its unresolved ironies and to confront its deceptive use of prosopopoiea.

Teaching Like an Urn 2003

Of course, the aporias of irony turn out to be, in many ways, the inevitable condition of clerical intervention and authority, even as the call for such intervention and authority testifies to an ironic consciousness that their influence can by no means be assumed.

Introduction: Irony and Clerisy 1999

Yet once such tropologically conditioned insight is being "translated back, so to speak, from language into cognition, from formal description into philosophical argument, it loses all inherent coherence and dissolves in the aporias of intellectual and sensory appearance" (de Man, 78).

The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant, 1999

[Greek: Emoi de dokousi pleionas lusai aporias hoi to tôn daimonôn genos en mesôi thentes theôn kai anthrôpôn kai tropon tina tên koinônian hêmôn sunagon eis tauto kai sunapton exeurontes; eite magôn tôn peri Zôroastrên ho logos outos esti, eite Thraikios] ....

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

Operating through their website, and in consort with the NYU Grey Gallery, the University of Iowa apparatus has shown what an out-of-town scholarly museum can do given the dramatic aporias of memory in the NYC institutional artworld.

post.thing.net - A lean, mean, media machine. Alan W. Moore 2010