...remote proximity in Entfernung's outbreak gives way to truth, and here, woman too, of herself, averts. There is no such thing as the essence of woman because...vestige of essentiality, of identity, of property. And the philosophical discourse, blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down these depthless...

...Nietzsche's text (from Spurs) transforms that term into an ironic version of the very thing he would avoid: There is no such thing as the essence of woman because...vestige of essentiality, of identity, of property. And the philosophical discourse, blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down these depthless...

..."truth is a woman" 3 —a woman who can never be won, since she "will not be pinned down" 4 (or up). "There is no such thing as the essence of woman because woman averts, she errs from herself. Out of endless and bottomless depths she engulfs and enveils all essentiality, all...

...traditional cultural constructions of the feminine. It is this woman Derrida has in view when he writes: "There is no such thing as the essence of woman because...vestige of essentiality, of identity, of property" (51). I will return to her in a moment. The latter, as she circulates in Derrida's textual economy,...

...the interval's cadence, distance itself, if we could still say such a thing, distance itself. . . . There is no such thing as the essence of woman because...vestige of essentiality, of identity, of property. And the philosophical discourse, blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down these depthless...

...the effect of woman (truth) seems to create an opening for truth, but truth (woman) disappears in it: "Out of the depths, endless and unfathomable, she...vestige of essentiality, of identity, of property. And the philosophical discourse, blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down these depthless...

...anti-essentialism. In this sense, she becomes the ruin of philosophy, an activity which Derrida can only approve: "There is no such thing as the essence of woman because woman averts, she is averted of herself . . . And the philosophical discourse, blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down these depthless...

...is to seek an essence, a fixity, an ontology and a metaphysics. Woman should not believe in herself: There is no such thing as the essence of woman because...vestige of essentiality, of identity, of property. And the philosophical discourse, blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down these depthless...

..."Woman" operates "outside" and disrupts the metaphysics, logic, and concepts of phallocentric culture. "Out of the depths, endless and unfathomable, she...distorts all vestige of essentiality, of identity, or property. And the philosophical discourses blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down...

...relationship between "woman" and truth: Given that truth is a woman . . . (KSA 5:11; cf. BGE — P, p. 2) There is no such thing as the essence of woman because...vestige of essentiality, of identity, of property. And the philosophical discourse, blinded, founders on these shoals and is hurled down these depthless...