Genesis and Trace
Derrida Reading Husserl and Heidegger
Published on 18. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8047-3916-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this study, Paola Marrati approaches-in an extremely insightful, rigorous, and well-argued way-the question of the philosophical sources of Derrida's thought through a consideration of his reading of both Husserl and Heidegger. A central focus of the book is the analysis of the concepts of genesis and trace as they define Derrida's thinking of historicity, time, and subjectivity. Notions such as the contamination of the empirical and the transcendental, dissemination and writing, are explained as key categories establishing a guiding thread that runs through Derrida's early and later works. Whereas in his discussion of Husserl Derrida problematizes the relationship between the ideality of meaning and the singularity of its historical production, in his interpretation of Heidegger he challenges the very idea of the originary finitude of temporality.
This book is essential reading not only for those interested in the philosophical roots of deconstruction, but for all those interested in the central questions of history and temporality, subjectivity and language, that pervade contemporary debates in cultural, literary, and visual theory alike.
This book is essential reading not only for those interested in the philosophical roots of deconstruction, but for all those interested in the central questions of history and temporality, subjectivity and language, that pervade contemporary debates in cultural, literary, and visual theory alike.
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New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Edition type
New edition
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-3916-0 (9780804739160)
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Persons
Paola Marrati is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University.
Content
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgements ii Translator's Note ii Introduction ii @to1:Part One: Derrida, Reader of Husserl @toc2:1.1. Eidos and Time 000 @toc3:1. The Problem of Genesis: Time and Truth 000 2. Being has Always Already Begun: Phenomenological, Ontological and Empirical Geneses 000 3. Transcendental Teleology and its Empirical Crisis: the Eidos of Europe 000 @toc2:1.2. The Absolute is Passage 000 @toc3:1. Reactivating the Origin: The Return Inquiry 000 2. Truth Lives Only By Surviving 000 3. Writing and the Transcendental Sense of Death 000 4. The Crisis of History: Fact, Eidos and Fault 000 @toc2:1.3. Forgetting and Memory (Of Ideality) 000 @toc3:1. Difference Dwells in Language Alone 000 2. Memory and Forgetting of Ideality 000 3. Epoch? and Solitary Mental Discourse 000 4. Originary Intuition and Signification 000 5. Duration of the Augenblick: The World in Time 000 6. Widersinnigkeit and Sinnlosigkeit: Ideality of Bedeutung and Non-Intuition 000 @toc1:Part Two: Derrida Before Heidegger @toc2:2.1. Being is Not Gathered 000 @toc3:1. On the Epoch of Representation 000 2. Sendings [Des envois] 000 3. The Paradox of the Origin in Heidegger 000 @toc2:2.2. Whence the Future? 000 @toc3:1. Originary Temporality and Originary Historicality 000 2. Genesis and Origin of Time 000 @toc2:2.3. Dasein's Life 000 @toc3:1. Dasein Does Not Pass Away 000 2. Is My Death Possible? 000 @toc2:Conclusions @toc4:Notes 000 Works Cited 000