Definition of "ipseity" []

• Selfhood; individual identity (noun)

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• "From Rogues, especially, we know that sovereignty is for Derrida part of the larger question he calls "ipseity," the possibility of selfhood, which, for the ten-year period 1991-2001, was posed under the heading "Questions of Responsibility.""
• "The referent in the predication of the proposition ˜Zayd exists™ is the very ipseity"
• "``The fact of not evading the burden imposed by the suffering of others defines ipseity itself."