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aporia
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a·po·ri·a  (-pôr-, -pr-)
n.
1. A figure of speech in which the speaker expresses or purports to be in doubt about a question.
2. An insoluble contradiction or paradox in a text's meanings.

[Greek, difficulty of passing, from aporos, impassable : a-, without; see a-1 + poros, passage; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]

aporia [əˈpɔːrɪə]
n
1. (Literature / Rhetoric) Rhetoric a doubt, real or professed, about what to do or say
2. (Philosophy) Philosophy puzzlement occasioned by the raising of philosophical objections without any proffered solutions, esp in the works of Socrates
[from Greek, literally: a state of being at a loss]
aporetic  [ˌæpəˈrɛtɪk] adj


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Sure enough, Magnus Enzensberger had already pointed out the aporetic relation between the reactionary politics of fascism and the revolutionary aesthetics of fascist avant-gardism; and Fredric Jameson had insisted on the same contradiction of fascist conservatism and modernist progressivism in his book on Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist (Enzensberger and Roloff; Jameson).
This unresolved and aporetic question formed the crux of "Art as Commodity in the Consciousness Industry," a statement published by the Berlin SDS group Culture and Revolution in Die Zeit in November 1968.
A major reason why so many people still overlook the implications of Derrida's complex interweaving of traditional binary motifs into an aporetic logic that surpasses it is the fact that many scholars do not read Derrida's own texts thoroughly and patiently, easily opting for one of the abundant, but mostly misleading, commentaries on his work.
 
 
 
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