MARIANA DI STELLA PIAZZOLLA

Jacques Derrida provides two readings for Levinasian ethics of welcome, which he named the trace of the feminine and women as androcentric hyperbole and feminist one, respectively. In this ethics the sexual difference occupies a pre-ethical non-place. This conception of time-space consists of reaching beyond the visibility and meaning of work given to the activities of hospitality to Other carried out by women. The general objective of this research is to articulate these hyperboles, showing the inseparability, in an iterability relationship, between undecidables terms of an aporia; which replace each other without identifying themselves, as opposed to the identifying difference of the Hegelian dialectic. In this interval of non-identification, the movement of différance returns as a trace, coming vertically from an immemorial past, gathering past-present-future in an instant of messianic time, modifying the historical time of historiographers. The trace of the feminine, as our hypothesis claims, has (un)conditions to blindly promote a transformative event by unpredictably displacing the historical dynamics, and therefore, the status of subordination of empirical women.