Different Meanings: a Brief Trajectory of the Concept of Difference
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2018-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Bhattacharya, Dahlia
Mondal, Amrita
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University of North Bengal
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Mitra, Z. (2018). Different Meanings: a Brief Trajectory of the Concept of Difference. Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 11, 57–71. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3937
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Mitra, Zinia
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Abstract
The Anglo–American literary criticism (especially mid 1960s/70s) gives us an
impression that the term ‘difference’ must have originated in the structuralist
model of analysis in the works of Ferdinand de Saussure. The arrival of
poststructuralism dealt with the concept of difference in a different parlance in
Derrida’s Writing and Difference or in Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition.
However, the fundamental problem of the concept of difference has been central
to the fundamental problems in philosophy and the concept has had an intriguing
genealogy beginning in pre- Socratic Milesean and Pyrrhonist philosophy that
came to be rooted in the idea of identity with Aristotle. The paper attempts to
trace briefly the trajectory of the concept from the Milesean philosophers upto the
middle of twentieth century.
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Difference, Pre-socratic, Plato, Aristotle, Structuralism
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11
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2229-4880
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57 - 71