Posts Tagged ‘Heidegger’

By no longer treating the posts as a metaphor of the envoi of Being, one can account for what essentially and decisively occurs, everywhere, and including language, thought, science, and everything that conditions them, when the postal structure shifts, Satz if you will, and posits or posts itself otherwise.  This is why this history of [...]

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 [...]

In Derrida’s reading of Marx, Specters of Marx, in its first chapter, Derrida inserts, within parentheses, a reading of Blanchot’s Marx’s Three Voices, within which he inserts a reading of Heidegger’s The Anaximander Fragment.
These critical measures provide Derrida with the resources for his later analysis of Marx’s texts. Now, given Derrida’s invocation of The [...]

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 [...]

The Anaximander Fragment is perhaps the oldest fragment of philosophical thought that has passed down, through the ages, to us. It’s a short sentence, preserved by Theophrastus and Aristotle. It speaks about the beginning and end of things, of payment, justice, the order of time. Frankly, as with the other fragments of [...]