L’INTRECCIO DEL GESCHLECHT: TRADUZIONI E ATTRAVERSAMENTI DELL’IDENTITÀ

Abstract

Abstract: Between 1983 and 1989 J. Derrida dedicates four essays to the German word Geschlecht focusing on its difficult translation. The untranslatability of this word depends on its polysemy. To translate it, in fact, a long series of signifiers is necessary, including: sex, race, species, genia, genus, family, generation, genealogy, kinship, lineage, community. The idiomaticity of this word is an inextricable intertwining that does not consist in its ability to “stay for” different things depending on the contexts in which it is used, but in the ability to trigger the question of the relationship between identity and otherness.