Posts Tagged ‘Husserl’
Now, we finished the last post off with the geometrical object acquiring a “living linguistic body”, and with this being the manner in which it became there for everybody. Now we need to have a closer look at this process.
Husserl not only lists the objects of science as ideal bodies, but, interestingly, the “constructions of [...]
Before we get on to Derrida’s commentary on the Origin, lets take a look at Husserl’s text.
The opening reference to Galileo puts us within the thinking of The Crisis. The specific question of the piece, ‘the origin of geometry’ is an unexpectedly historical one’. Husserl has no interest in the ‘historical’ first geometers, even if [...]
My reasons for looking at historicism should emerge clearly over the coming posts. Derrida understands historicism as an unacceptable relativism, and a critique of this is an implicit first step in his thinking. As Peter Dews notes:
Given the frequency of relativistic appropriations of Derrida, particularly in the English speaking world, it is important for an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
