How To Use Derrida In A Sentence
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I want to suggest that in the case of his funeral orations, Derrida writes from within a rhetorical tradition that sometimes includes meaning or signification in its persuasive aims.
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Derrida neglected to discuss alternatives except in language so opaque it is impossible to decipher.
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According to Derrida, Levinas underestimates not only the elusiveness of alterity but the degree of respect for alterity already present in earlier thinkers.
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From Rogues, especially, we know that sovereignty is for Derrida part of the larger question he calls "ipseity," the possibility of selfhood, which, for the ten-year period 1991-2001, was posed under the heading "Questions of Responsibility.
The Blogora
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From the dialectic materialism of Hegel to the deconstructionism of Jacques Derrida, these traditions distinguished themselves from the Anglo-American schools of analytic thought in both their content and their methodologies.
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Palimpsest is a metaphor commonly used by deconstructionists, particularly Jacques Derrida.
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I am arguing, rather, that those in cultural studies would do well to take into account the challenge Nancy and Derrida, in different ways, pose to the "intuitionist" tradition.
Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community
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Derrida is critical of Heidegger's conception of historicity as fate or destiny because of the contamination of spirit by nationalism.
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Derrida himself is interested in the tension created between discursive play and history.
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Indeed, we aim to show that the somewhat malapert remarks of Derrida on Fukuyama open up onto something that is much more significant than scorn.
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One of the most insightful pieces she published on Borges was "A Postmodern Approach to Fictional History in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and the Asceticism of Ezra Buckley" in which Palin brilliantly deconstructed the notion of history relative to the character, Ezra Buckley, in a way that the late Jacques Derrida wrote, "Je m'em branle!
Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It?
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In Derrida's opinion, logocentrism attributes to logos the origin of truth.
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As Derrida suggests, a painter cannot look simultaneously at the model and at its representation.
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I have already had several occasions to remark that binary oppositions are, in Derrida's phrase, violent hierarchies.
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This is a metaphor that Derrida frequently uses, as a kind of writing on the ear.
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Far more interesting, though, is the quality of argumentation offered in support of Derrida's importance.
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7 This topos has been a subject of well known investigations from Ernst R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Princeton 1967), 319-326, to Jacques Derrida, Of
Plotnitsky, Notes
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The impasse between the two, which Derrida called aporia, the Greek word for the impasse itself, is that we want both the conditional and unconditional at the same time but, yet, at the same time we don't want either of them because each of them has a shortcoming.
Penn State Live
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(I do think that these pathologies find their natural home in the grey vampure zone of the academy; conversely, Derrida's work has often been a great potentiator outside the university and its footnote-pressure: think of his role in UK music journalism).
K-punk
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In Literary Theory and the Claims of History, Satya Mohanty posits a hermeneutics of affirmation in contrast to Jacques Derrida's hermeneutics of negation.
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The writings of Jacques Derrida on freedom and democracy mentioned earlier are not without relevance here as well.
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This very loaded broaching, through the use of the word posthumanous, of the thought of an extreme posteriority finds itself sternly warned by Derrida's words, above.
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Derrida had advanced deconstruction as a challenge to unquestioned assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition.
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Betti and Hirsch argued that Gadamer's thought is a kind of relativism by the objectivism. Derrida, the representative for deconstructivism, criticize Gadamer too.
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I earlier said that Agamben, Foucault, and Derrida were "human dildoes.
Archive 2008-07-01
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So here's what, a little more than halfway down, the left-hand column, page 917, Derrida has to say about that.
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Derrida has two main ways of exposing these textual interplays, deconstruction and double reading.
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Life lessons, exes, or your philosophical stance on the late Jacques Derrida (Overblown fraud or grand deconstructionist?
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This is a lesson drawn from Derrida's insistence on the anteriority of writing.
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And Derrida, like all Deconstructionists - and, in particular, French aesthetes, are expert at making rhetoric dance.
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A Derrida acolyte describes the first, giddy days of her conversion.
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Derrida irrupted into Western philosophy from the repressed margin of the imperial West.
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Spirit of Vatican II on Derrida and Truth; the pertinent bit:In veiled polemic against Lacan on the one hand and Deleuze on the other, Derrida declares that the metaphysical notions of truth-presence function as fetishes aiming to supplement and hide the lack of phallus of truth as woman; but that if one rebels against truth, seen as castrating, one falls into the phallocentrism which inspires this denial.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Derrida and Foucault's whole deconstructive enterprise might be seen as an exercise in animadversion on the Western cultural process of translation.
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Many philosophers and social scientists regard Derrida and Lacan primarily as literary jesters, as both are noted for their elaborate punning and impenetrably dense style.
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Derrida suggests that representation or signification is based on both a distance from a signified and a difference among terms.
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The popularity of Jacques Derrida's philosophy among academics is hard to understand except as a symptom of decadence.
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The dispute between Derrida and Foucault was less a question of text versus history than an argument about history itself.
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On some occasions, the vocabulary that she employs in her response to Derrida is recriminatory.
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This was not, I hasten to add, what Derrida himself believed, but unfortunately what was most often represented as "Derridean" was indeed this sort of anti-intellectual nonsense (its anti-intellectualism disguised by much obscurantist theory-ese), the result of which, finally, was the complete loss of credibility on the part of academic literary study and, unfortunately, the labeling of Derrida as the obscurantist-in-chief.
Philosophy and Literature
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The sense of hearing gives Kant, according to Derrida, expression through an absolute interiority.
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His surname evokes both the medieval historian Saxo Grammaticus and Jacques Derrida's crit-theory bellwether, "Of Grammatology.
Sense & Semiotics
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But Derrida's subtle analyses show that logocentrism tends to manifest itself in extremely indirect ways.
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This is the position of Christopher Norris, who modestly but firmly maintains that all anglophone readers except himself have misunderstood Derrida.
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I see Derrida's aporetic undecidability between the Other of difference and the Other of singluarity as the Vedantic tension between the Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable...
Archive 2009-07-01
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Derrida, clearly influenced by Freud, argues that we are who we are in and through these interiorized others.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida
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Very opinionated, which is fine, but he does not back up his crit of Derrida with any close reading either so there you go.
What is Philosophy? A Few Thoughts from a Non-expert on the Passing of Derrida and Reactions to It
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Below is a bitty paraphrase of a section of the lecture, a section concerning Derrida.
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The theory of "textual subjectivity" advocated by Jacques Derrida and others shows clearly the spirit of the aesthetic of postmodernism.
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This sensitivity to the style, subtle tendencies and holistic vision requires an insight similar to that needed to overcome what Jacques Derrida identified as the problem of Western logocentrism.
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With the advent of post-structuralism in the later 1970s, the attack on the idea of the self was rephrased in terms borrowed from Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
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Derrida's theory of supplementarity is useful in understanding the extent to which ethnic art explodes postmodern theory in unexpected and unexplored new directions.
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Paul de Man, who introduced the deconstructionist theory of Jacques Derrida to American readers after the New Criticism had become a received orthodoxy, detected in the New Critics a "foreknowledge" of what he called, borrowing a phrase from the Swiss critic Georges Poulet, "hermeneutic circularity.
The Decline and Fall of Literature
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Saying it's all linguistics is a bit of a strange thing to say, since most of Derrida's work is an extension from work that was itself an extension of Structural Linguistics.
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Horton claims, further, that Pauline eschatology not only avoids Nietzsche's and Derrida's critiques of dualism, but also gives theology an intelligible way of talking about eschatology.
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We are admonished to avoid speaking ill of the dead, so we'll leave Derrida with this wonderful little story by Michael Martone, a leading figure in the Johns Hopkins creative writing program during the 1960s.
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Jacques Derrida, the world famous thinker, philosopher, and the founder of Deconstructionism, has been exerting an enormous influence on almost all the branches in the humanities.
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Derrida became a flashpoint for controversies over the allegedly baleful influence of postmodernism and post-structuralism on the Humanities.
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Heidegger's leftist acolytes, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, felt able to sideline his racist and genocidal beliefs while embracing his antihumanism.
The Guardian World News
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Derrida burst on to the world stage in the 1960s with his recondite theory known as deconstruction.
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Jacques Derrida, in the preface to Margins of Philosophy, identifies the printing press-specifically, the ‘tympan’ as the agent of division.
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At the conclusion of this lecture The Ends of Man, 1968, Derrida brings this logic of undecidability to bear on the two strategies that have appeared in connection with the deconstruction of metaphysical humanism.
Enowning
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Many authors have criticized Derrida's attempts to find an ethical basis for deconstruction.
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All this is taken by Derrida's critics for an attack on truth itself, referentiality and the stability of interpretative contexts.
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Derrida insisted that the very way in which language functions, that is, signification, necessitates an unbridgeable gap between the signifier and the signified.
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In his essay on vernacular photography, Geoffrey Batchen uses Derrida's term ‘parerga’ [literally ‘next to main work’] to describe the personal, intimate photographies that have fallen outside the canon of ‘proper’ photography.
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Husserl's phenomenology is Derrida's most immediate philosophical heritage.
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And as In Favor of Thinking further observes: "What the right wing and the general media never seemed to understand, in characterizing all literary theory, and especially deconstruction, as the Evil Force of Chaos about to Destroy the Canon (remember the so-called Culture Wars?), was that in order to really understand Derrida's work, you had to be steeped in the Western literary and philosophical tradition.
Philosophy and Literature
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Derrida suggests that representation or signification is based on both a distance from a signified and a difference among terms.
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Derrida reads Freud's legend of "fils" (strings/sons): "The legacy and jealousy of a repetition (already jealous of itself) are not accidents which overtake the fort: da, rather they more or less strictly pull its strings.
Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...''
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Husserl's phenomenology is Derrida's most immediate philosophical heritage.
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Derrida's distrust of metaphysics harmonizes well with this political humanism, and indeed his critique of rationality in the early deconstructive texts follows this logic to its conclusion.
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What Derrida does not do is locate this within the context of Heidegger's general strategy of university reform.
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I have already had several occasions to remark that binary oppositions are, in Derrida's phrase, violent hierarchies.
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Rodinson wrote to unveil the secrets of a world dimly understood by Europeans, Derrida to expose the hidden contradictions and incoherencies of what seemed most transparent about the canons of Western thought.
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The initial corporeal silence of the wound, the muted mark of the sword's wounding penetration, is not alone sufficient-there cannot be, as Derrida writes of Artaud, "stigmata … substituted for the text".
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I thought Derrida was fantastically interesting - I still do.
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Finally, this paper explains what is the spirit of Marxism which Derrida always asks us to inherit, and what is the relationship between his deconstructionism and Marxism.
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Derrida has two main ways of exposing these textual interplays, deconstruction and double reading.
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Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
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For, as Derrida writes, ‘What is tragic is not the impossibility but the necessity of repetition’ and, we might add, the necessity of the prompter.
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Even Derrida took language as highest philosophy and profoundly meditated in his book. on grammatology.
Archive 2007-06-01
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With the advent of post-structuralism in the later 1970s, the attack on the idea of the self was rephrased in terms borrowed from Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
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Jacques Derrida has argued that translation always produces both a surplus of meaning and a debt.
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Deconstructivism ideas are borrowed from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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What does emerge from it is that Norris's way of reading Derrida is likely to make considerable demands on the reader.
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I want to insist, however, that in the case of his funeral orations, Derrida's concern for presence and otherness is not merely theoretical.
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Spivak is often viewed as an unequivocally deconstructive theorist, and she frequently reinforces this impression by proclaiming her allegiance to Derrida's ideas.