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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Many of us say with a smug surprise: “the Law is founded on its own transgressions.” This may be a convenient aphorism that carries within it the memory—in most cases a textual memory not necessarily elaborated by the user—of Lacan's explanations of the Law of the Father, or of Derrida's meditations on perjury, or, rather, par-jure because ultimately Derrida carefully stopped short at the irreducibility of idioms, the limits of the translatability of philosophies.

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PMLA , Volume 121 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 1608 - 1617
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2006

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