Modernity: an “impression”

Abstract

From Derrida’s Grammatology to Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge, a philosophical-bibliographic it thought is consolidated, but has its birth in the first "appearances" of Western philosophy, in disputes between sophists and Socratics, between the classical culture and Hellenism. The purpose of this philosophical reflection is to discuss the ubiquitous relationship in a historical course of relations between theory of knowledge and bibliographic theory of knowledge, which currently leads the issue between technology and language, resulting, in turn, on the centrality of the role of Bibliography. The historical reflection plays an important role here not because of the demarcation of a history of language technologies, but the possibility of holding sutures in the statement of time-space of a bibliographic ethic that is sewn on the passage of the nomadic culture to a sedentary rationality, dependent on stable memories. Thus, from a theory of knowledge as "modern transformation" of the anti-mythological thought in antiquity, to the new technologies of post-1960 language, an epistemology, or a bibliographic theory of knowledge is established slowly, constituting a distinct episteme in parallel to the history of philosophical thought itself.