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Altarity in the senses of alter (another), alternate, alterity (altérité) and alter: Mark Taylor (Altarity, pp.xxviii-xxix). Austrag in the sense of perdurance - see also “dif-ference”: Martin Heidegger (Identity and Difference, 1969: 65/133); see also John Caputo (Heidegger and Aquinas: an Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics, 1982: 148). Between in the sense of that which allows the union of two points while dividing them: Werner Hamacher (in Julian Wolfreys, Thinking Difference, 2004: 166-168); note that for Arkady Plotnitsky (in Julian Wolfreys, Thinking Difference, 2004: 86) it does not qualify for a figure of difference. Cleavage in the senses of part, division, clinging, the site of a temple: Mark Taylor (Altarity, 1987: 47-49). Dif-ference in the sense of an in-between (austrag) – see also “austrag”: Martin Heidegger (Nietzsche, II, p. 209); see also Douglas Donkel (The Understanding of Difference in Heidegger and Derrida, 1992: 45). Differenciator in the sense of that which diffrenciates difference; the (dark) precursor of difference: Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition, 1994: 117 ff). Différance in the sense of dissimilar and deferring - a temporalization: Jacques Derrida (Of Grammatology, 1976: 66; Margins of Philosophy, 1982: 3 ff.); see also Douglas Donkel (The Understanding of Difference in Heidegger and Derrida, 1992: 93 ff). Disparity in the (tautological) sense of a difference of intensity: Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition, 1994: 222). Entzweiung in the sense of dividing in two, separating: Georg Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit, 1977: 106); see also Mark Taylor (Altarity, 1987: 17). Eternal return in the sense of that which is purely intensive thereby affirming difference; as that which is said of difference: Gilles Deleuze, after Friedrich Niezsche (Difference and Repetition, 1994: 243). Hinge (la brisure) in the sense of difference and articulation: Jacques Derrida (Of Grammatology, 1976: 65). Idea in the sense of an n-dimensional, continuous variety of multiplicity: Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition, 1994: 182 ff). Intensity in the sense of a coupling of elements which, in turn, refer to couples of elements of another order and so forth: Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition, 1994: 222, 235). Untershied in the sense of a border, a divide: Martin Heidegger (Poetry, Language and Thought, 1971: 202); see also Mark Taylor (Altarity, 1987: 43-44).
For an additional list of names see: Douglas Donkel, The Understanding of Difference in Heidegger and Derrida, 1992: especially 197 ff. It includes: "presence", "presencing", "being", "seinfrage", "ereignis", "contamination", "time", "undescidable". For additional figures of difference see: Julian Wolfreys, Thinking Difference, 2004: especially 68ff. It includes: "or", "weather", "diapherein", "différance", "otherness", "alterity", "university", "pedagogy", "reading", "writing", "thinking", "change", "rhythm", "I", "aporia", "undescidable". |
This where you can names for difference, and related conceptual developments, or what Plotnitsky calls 'figures of difference'. The posted figures and meanings are not meant to be final let alone exhaustive - how could they? They are meant to be simply indicative of the richness and complexity of difference in an effort to map its many meanings.
