Sauf le nām, or Awkward Turns between Derrida and Nānak
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion May 19, 2026 Raji Soni
This brief article interleaves a reading of nom in Derrida’s Sauf le nom and a reading of nām , a term pivotal to Guru Nānak’s Japji , in Arvind Mandair’s Sikh Philosophy . I configure and construe the syntagm Sauf le nām to indicate a grammar of (un)translatability between not only French and Punjabi, but also between negative transcendence in Christian mysticism and positive immanence in Sikh...