Errant thinking proposes a sacred rooted above all in depth rather than the root

Evidence

The founding books have taught us that the sacred dimension consists always of going deeper into the mystery of the root, shaded with variations of errantry. In reality errant thinking is the postulation of an unyielding and unfading sacred. We remember that Plato, who understood the power of My th, had hoped to banish the poets, those who force obscurity, far from the Republic. He distrusted the fathomless word. Are we not returning here, in the unforeseeable meanders of Relation, to this abyssal word? Nowhere is it stated that now, in this thought of errantry, humanity will not succeed in transmuting Myth’s opacities (which were formerly the occasion for setting roots) and the diffracted insights of political philosophy, thereby reconciling Homer and Plato, Hegel and the Mrican griot. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 164

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘unyielding and unfading sacred’ claimed for errantry disrupts Glissant’s usual anti-root framing; connects to the reader’s question of whether loosened identity still needs some grounding. — connects to: Speculative thought arises inside the proposition rather than through a separate form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1139; Marginality from the world undercuts the rootedness art and thought require — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 290; Philosophy reconciles content and form as a sensed, non-representable absolute form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 961
• QUESTION: Glissant’s paradox here — errantry nonetheless postulating a sacred — directly bears on whether non-possessive identity can be sustained without some residually fixed anchoring.

Broader Connections

• Speculative thought arises inside the proposition rather than through a separate form #responds-to (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1139
• Marginality from the world undercuts the rootedness art and thought require #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 290
• Philosophy reconciles content and form as a sensed, non-representable absolute form #complicates (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 961