 | Frank Lentricchia - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 406 pages
...since the center does not belong to the totality . . . the totality has its center elsewhere. . . . The concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a freeplay . . . which is constituted upon a fundamental immobility and a reassuring certitude, which... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 552 pages
...contradictorily coherent. And, as always, coherence in contradiction expresses the force of a desire. The concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a freeplay based on a fundamental ground, a freeplay which is constituted upon a fundamental immobility... | |
 | Richard Rorty - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 222 pages
..."metaphysician." Metaphysics, Derrida says, is the search for "a centered structure . . . the concept of play as based on a fundamental ground, a play constituted...fundamental immobility and a reassuring certitude, which is itself beyond the reach of play" (Derrida, Writing and Difference [Chicago: University of Chicago... | |
 | Jay Fellows - Literary Collections - 1991 - 224 pages
...one significantly observed by Jacques Derrida, in his well-known essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play": The concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a freeplay based on a fundamental ground, a freeplay which is constituted upon a fundamental immobility... | |
 | Antonio García Berrio - Computers - 1992 - 564 pages
...it, but on an act of will, of desire, which focuses and privileges one given point as central. Thus, "the concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a play based on a fundamental ground" (J. Derrida, 1967, p. 410 [1978, p. 279]). Note, however, that this Derridean notion of centered meaning,... | |
 | Richard J. Bernstein - Philosophy - 1992 - 372 pages
...straightforward essays, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," he writes: The concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a playbased on a fundamental ground, a play constituted on the basis of a fundamental immobility and... | |
 | Mark Wigley - Architecture - 1993 - 300 pages
...sure that the organizing principle of the structure would limit what we might call the play of the structure. . . . The concept of centered structure...reassuring certitude, which itself is beyond the reach of play.18 The figure of the edifice that philosophical discourse appears to appropriate from "ordinary"... | |
 | Barbara Bair, Susan E. Cayleff - Health & Fitness - 1993 - 404 pages
...in the array of concepts. The concept of centered structure that characterizes Western metaphysics is "in fact the concept of a play based on a fundamental...fundamental immobility and a reassuring certitude" (Derrida 1978, 279). There appears to be no fundamental immobility in hot-cold thought; instead there... | |
 | William V. Spanos - Philosophy - 1993 - 376 pages
...effort to institutionalize deconstruction, "The concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of play based on a fundamental ground, a play constituted...fundamental immobility and a reassuring certitude, which is itself beyond the reach of play. And on the basis of this certitude anxiety can be mastered."^ 7... | |
 | Joseph P. Natoli, Linda Hutcheon - Philosophy - 1993 - 608 pages
...contradictorily coherent. And, as always, coherence in contradiction expresses the force of a desire. The concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a freeplay based on a fundamental ground, a freeplay which is constituted upon a fundamental immobility... | |
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With this certitude anxiety can be mastered, for anxiety is invariably the result of a certain mode of being implicated... 
