La main

July 9, 2008 in musings
Tags: Derrida, everyday language, hands, Heidegger, metaphors, ousia and gramme, violence and metaphysics

Just musing on a few more thoughts about hands, the day before the Derrida Today conference.  Over at Rough Theory a good conversation has ranged from Marx and Heidegger through to Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
In Geschlecht II Derrida comments that, for Heidegger, there is only ever the ‘hand’ in the singular.  Hand for Heidegger, is not [...]

Sleight of hand

June 27, 2008 in Reading, conferences
Tags: Derrida, geschlecht, hands, Heidegger, Marx, Praxis, Rough Theory

Now this is just a brief post.  N Pepperell of Rough Theory has posted a succinct account of some of her thinking on Derrida’s Specters of Marx.  While NP had been focussing on Derrida’s reading of Marx, I had been more directed towards Heidegger’s role in this text.  More on this to come.  All this [...]