page_title: Parergon
hierarchical_section_title: Parergon
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Socrates. Marble, Roman artwork (1st century), perhaps a copy of a lost bronze statue made by Lysippos. Ελληνικά: Σωκράτης Français&#160;: Portrait de Socrate. Marbre, œuvre romaine du Ier siècle, peut-être une copie d'un bronze perdu réalisé par Lysippe.
context_page_description: Parergon is an ancient Greek philosophical concept defined as a supplementary issue. Parergon is also referred to as "embellishment" or extra.
  The literal meaning of the ancient Greek term is "beside, or additional to the work". According to Jacques Derrida, it is "summoned and assembled like a supplement because of the lack - a certain 'internal indetermination - in the very thing it enframes". It is added to a system to augment something lacking such as in the case of ergon, with parergon constituting an internal structural link that makes its unity possible.
context_section_description: Parergon (paˈrərˌgän, plural: parerga) is an ancient Greek philosophical concept defined as a supplementary issue. Parergon is also referred to as "embellishment" or extra. 
  The literal meaning of the ancient Greek term is "beside, or additional to the work". According to Jacques Derrida, it is "summoned and assembled like a supplement because of the lack - a certain 'internal indetermination - in the very thing it enframes". It is added to a system to augment something lacking such as in the case of ergon (function, task or work), with parergon constituting an internal structural link that makes its unity possible.
caption: Socrates used parergon as the term to describe the violation of the "one man, one job" rule.[3]
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