ABSTRACT
Today’s world of Euro-American philosophy has seemingly immersed itself in the phenomenon of the text. It is as if the virtual totality of things has been subsumed under the paradigm metaphor of the written, which in turn relates to a particular activity, reading. Thus we find faddish conference titles such as ‘Writing the Future’, ‘Writing Woman’, or ‘Writing the Body’, abounding. I shall call this contemporary immersion Neo-Renaissancism. And my justification for this nomination comes from that marvelous French-rather than Borgesian Chinese-encyclopedia, The Order of Things by Michael Foucault.
