• Alexander Knysh

'We shall not return to the state anterior to discourse - in which nothing has yet been said, and in which things are only just beginning to emerge out of the grey light; and we shall not pass beyond discourse in order to rediscover the forms that it has created and left behind it; we shall remain, or try to remain, at the level of discourse itsel...A task consists of not - of no longer - treating discourses as groups of signs (signifying elements referring to contents or representations) but as practices that systematically form the objects of which they speak.'

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3-26
Number of pages24
JournalDie Welt des Islams
Volume44
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2004

    Scopus subject areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • History
  • Religious studies
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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