Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: b. February 24, 1942
Birthday: February 24
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom
topic: Fall, Expression, Inspire, Hitting Bottom, Deconstruction
