13) highlights sense as openness that overcomes appropriation (through exposing it to
exteriority.) A related term Nancy (2003) uses is the "spacing of sense" (p.
It is this dominion that creates, out of chaos, a cosmos--a beautiful, well-ordered universe." (94) If the masculine characteristic of agonistic differentiation concerns drawing a boundary between self and other, the masculine characteristic of
exteriority involves confirming and fulfilling oneself through constructive activity in the external world.
This effort to enter life, to gain wisdom from the real world, to make a detour to
exteriority in order to discover reflexivity and interiority is, I believe, significant for what its proponents can learn from Descartes in terms of personal development.
(12) In other words in place of reducing
exteriority to the '
exteriority of meaning', the
exteriority of the trace breaches meaning from the outset.
In a section of The Poet's Vision titled "Impersonal Speech and the Presences of Absence," Levinas appreciates that for Blanchot, "The mode of revelation of what remains Other, despite its revelation, is not the thought, but the language, of the poem." (19) In the notion of a given that is always only in a proximate relation, Levinas notes a positive relation with
exteriority. When words are said, silence is required to let words bare their meaning.
However, in distinguishing between a politics in interiority and a politics in
exteriority, am I not on the path to renewing politics' former division: the bourgeois version, the proletarian version?
The idea of a mutually (if unevenly) transformative relationship between the interiority of the individual and the
exteriority of the social is precisely the core of the complexity surrounding writing.
Teaching is the manifestation of
exteriority, the
exteriority that is understood within me.
My contention in this second part of the paper is that photography functions as the pivotal image around which the Levinasian journey from interiority to
exteriority is presented.
The membrane serves, in this study, as a topological limit between what Deleuze, following Simondon, calls the organism's milieus of interiority and
exteriority. (1) It is the first moment of organismic spatiality: the foundation of the organism as an entity spatially distinct from its environment.
60) could not be further from a concern with reflexivity: All that matters are "relations of
exteriority" (quoting Manuel DeLanda, p.