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dilemma

A dilemma arises when neither of two choices is satisfactory. In moral philosophy, an ethical dilemma occurs when each choice is morally binding--when one can perform neither both actions nor only one and remain moral. The critical practice of deconstruction often exposes dilemmas that occur in texts; such a moment of doubt in which knowlege and moral action come to a crisis is sometimes called an aporia.

• Derrida, Jacques
• Devi, Mahasweta
• Djebar, Assia
• Gerber, Asa
• Green, André
• Matilal, Biwal Krishna
• Naipaul, V. S.

• aporia
• deconstruction
• différance
• dilemma
• mortiferous self-knowledge
• narcissism
• subaltern