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Book Description:However widely-and differently-Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a 'foundational' French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy, or rather the most radical of skeptics? Are language-related themes-writing, semiosis-his central concern, or does he really write about something else?

And does his thought form a system of its own, or does it primarily consist of commentaries on individual texts? This book seeks to address these questions by returning to what it claims is essential history: the development of Derrida's core thought through his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology. Joshua Kates recasts what has come to be known as the Derrida/Husserl debate, by approaching Derrida's thought historically, through its development. Based on this developmental work, Essential Historyculminates by offering discrete interpretations of Derrida's two book-length 1967 texts, interpretations that elucidate the until now largely opaque relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns.A fundamental reinterpretation of Derrida's project and the works for which he is best known, Kates's study fashions a new manner of working with the French thinker that respects the radical singularity of his thought as well as the often different aims of those he reads. Such a view is in fact 'essential' if Derrida studies are to remain a vital field of scholarly inquiry, and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns.

A radical reappraisal of Jacques Derrida’s work is necessary, this book contends, if Derrida studies are to remain a viable field of scholarly inquiry in the future and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns. Valuable alternatives to the largely historicist practices regnant today in the humanities have been missed due to the inability to arrive at truly global interpretations of Derrida’s thought, as well as that of other “foundational” French thinkers.After all, even today, it can be argued, the most basic questions concerning Derrida’s work remain unanswered. Chapter 1 started from the debates in the literature to bring forward a problem with deconstruction’s operation, and from these debates, I set out two guidelines that pointed a way toward a remedy. These guidelines, however, as some readers may have already sensed, contain an implicit tension, if not an outright contradiction, which it is now time to explicitly discuss.

The first guideline, after all, points toward a new way of looking at Derrida, one so far unrealized in the literature and potentially foreign even to Derrida himself. By contrast, the second relies on statements made by Derrida himself and.

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I am about to turn to section 7 of the “Introduction” to Husserl’s Origin of Geometry, in which Derrida discusses writing for the first time in his published corpus, in order to answer the question that has emerged as decisive for adjudicating whether Derrida’s thought develops significantly: Is the problematic of writing in the “Introduction’s” section 7 essentially the same as that in the 1967 works? Does Derrida, by dint of having recourse to “the unthought axiomatic of Husserl’s thought” (as he puts it in “Time of a Thesis”), arrive at a truly consistent problematic of writing in the “Introduction,”. Significant development does take place in Derrida’s treatment of writing between 1962 and 1967, as well as in his thought more generally, it has now been shown. Derrida came upon the theme of writing for the first time in the “Introduction” within the framework of Husserl’s late historical analysis, and in the “Introduction” writing thus remains viewed on Husserl’s terms, from his transcendental-phenomenological perspective, as Leib, and as subject to an animating transcendental intentionality. Derrida doubtless also poses significant questions to Husserl in 1962; he probes the limits of Husserl’s thought in the “Introduction” in respect to writing, as well.

Jacques Derrida Works

Having arrived at a developmental overview of Derrida’s 1967 writings, I now wish to turn to Speech and Phenomena. Good reasons exist to think that Of Grammatology, or at least parts of it, were written before Speech—an earlier draft of the first half of Of Grammatologyhaving appeared as an article in 1965. Nevertheless, insofar as Derrida’s starting points in Speech, as well as his overall concerns there, are nearer to those we have already reviewed ( Speechindeed closes out Derrida’s engagement with Husserl, and it will not be until the next century that Derrida writes again on Husserlian.