Epochality

Quick meaning: Epochality is a noun meaning (rare) The state or quality of pertaining to an epoch.

Meaning

(rare) The state or quality of pertaining to an epoch.

More Meanings

1. (rare) The primitial abilitude pervading someone or something from which the rousing of an epoch stems.
2. (rare) A state of being momentous; importance; significance.

Example Sentences

Derrida gives a rather tentative beginning of an answer: The unfolding of difference is perhaps not solely the truth of Being, or of the epochality of Being.

And I explore the question of, and the conditions for, an exceptional contemporary epochality, whose exceptional difficulty is what I have characterized elsewhere as the epochal double re-doubled.

It is not the giving of that which is distanced because of its being either originating or primordial, and whose presence and hence its being present (were it ever to be present) would then become the epochality of its founding and maintaining origin.

It is in part this epochality that leads to Jeyifo's proleptic postcolonialism. However this was in no small part because the epochality of the nation took shape under the aegis of a decolonization process that then succeeded in elevating the struggles and sacrifices of political elites against colonialism to the level of an ontological necessity and thereby projected them as the privileged subjects of representation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epocha, epoch, period, subepoch, antiquity, ancientry.

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