Posts Tagged ‘historicity’
Time for a little systematic reading. Derrida’s 1962 Introduction to the Origin of Geometry is an extremely important book for understanding the development of Derrida’s work, and the unity of his overall oeuvre. From memory (don’t have the book in front of me), he describes it in Positions as the first half to Speech and [...]
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 [...]
Here’s something I’m currently grappling with. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
On the one hand, I am dealing with the empirical history of the reception of Derrida. This is interesting insofar as it provides a kind of anthropology of academic disciplines – the way academics respond (or not) to philosophical innovation, and the way this is [...]
Spent some time flicking through the opening pages of Writing and Difference today. Was struck by just how much Derrida uses history – and historicity – as a springboard into his philosophy. It’s a critical theme through a few of the essays, and notably Violence and Metaphysics.
If it recedes one day, leaving behind its works [...]
As I mentioned below, Catherine Malabou was at the recent Derrida Today conference, (Sydney, July 2008). A version of the keynote that she gave there is published in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 12:4 pp.431-441, 2007, (in English).
In the course of a reading of the first section of Of Grammatology, Malabou addresses the question [...]
