Questioning History ‘How can one be late to the end of history? A question for today.’1 Jacques Derrida’s fame rests largely on his ability to devise eccentric approaches to philosophical and cultural problems, and he might well be thought to have excelled himself with this particular question. Assuming, that is, that one felt ‘the end of history’ made any sense as a concept, given that, as some thinkers would have it, history is the equivalent of humankind’s memory
Metaphor and Continental Philosophy From Kant to Derrida
There has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a subject of study in recent decades. While literature and the arts, as far back as Plato, have always recognized metaphor as a source of poetic meaning, this new interest in metaphor is part of a shift in thinking which asserts that the metaphorical creation of meaning holds significance for the way we understand the construction of knowledge and the world. The following works give a good indication of the scope of metaphor
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DERRIDA AND LACAN
Derrida presents deconstruction as if it were not a thesis. Perhaps deconstruction is almost nothing more than the most extreme consequence of Saussure’s linguistics. Following Saussure, Derrida understands a ‘text’ as a system in which a plurality of differences precedes any presence and makes it possible; and conversely, any system of differences may be deemed a ‘text’. The significance of each element of a text is determined by its differ
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This book tells the story of Derrida’s skepticism, which proved so influential in the American academy. But it also pays close attention to Derrida’s even more influential departure from his rigorous method of doubting everything: the prophetic tone he assumed when he evoked the revolutionary properties of writing or, in later years, of justice. This tone was an attempt to reach outside the enclosure of skepticism, to proclaim the emergence of a world that would not be merely linguistic.
