Khora de jacques derrida biography

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Khôra (also chora; was the territory of the Ancient Greekpolis outside the city proper.

11 The Platonic Remainder: Derrida's Khôra and the Corpus ...

The term has been used in philosophy by Plato to designate a receptacle (as a “third kind” [triton genos]; Timaeus 48e4), a space, a material substratum, or an interval. In Plato's account khôra is neither being nor nonbeing but an interval between in which the "forms" were originally held; it "gives space" and has maternal overtones (a womb, matrix).

Jacques Derrida has written a short text with the title Khôra, using his deconstructionist approach to investigate Plato's word usage. It is the origin for the recent interest in this rather obscure Greek term.

Key authors addressing khôra include Martin Heidegger who refers to a "clearing" in which being happens or takes place.

Julia Kristeva deploys the term as part of her analysis of the difference between the semiotic and symbol Khôra - Jacques Derrida - Google Books GOVUC