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DERRIDA AFTER YESTERDAY

INSTITUTING GESTURES, INESCAPABLE WAYS: DERRIDA AND ZHUANGZI COMPARED

For over 40 years, numerous scholars have engaged in comparing the philosophies of Zhuangzi and Derrida. These comparisons can either bring the two thinkers closer together or set them apart, depending on how the authors assess four key aspects: the central co...

THE OBVIOUS UNSAID: AN INQUIRY INTO HEIDEGGER’S DOCTRINE VIA DERRIDA

In his essay “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” Heidegger posits that a thinker’s doctrine resides not in their explicit articulations but in what remains unsaid within the said, in the gaps and interstices of their thought. This paper examinesthe question of Heideg...

DECONSTRUCTION AS THE THINKING OF SECRET

Secrecy is essential to human life, shaping personal identity and social bonds. It enables individuals to protect their inner lives and fosters intimacy and community through selective sharing. Secrecy involves ethical and political judgment, requiring decisio...

THE CONCEPT OF PHANTASM IN THE WORK OF DERRIDA

Abstract The article offers a reconstruction of Derrida’s concept of phantasm with a stress on the discussion of the phantasm in Glas (1974) and his final seminar (2002 – 2003). I argue that the main characteristic of the phantasm is that it is placed on both...

A COMMITMENT TO IRRESPONSIBILITY: ON DERRIDA’S PASSIONS: ‘AN OBLIQUE OFFERING’

In accounts of deconstruction’s concern with responsibility, what is often overlooked is its commitment to specific forms of irresponsibility as not just unavoidable but necessary. This article traces that necessity, through a reading of Derrida’s “Passions: ‘...

BLINDNESS AND INSIGHT OF READING DECONSTRUCTION BETWEEN JACQUES DERRIDA AND PAUL DE MAN

This paper reexamines the complex relationship between Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man by focusing on their divergent approaches to deconstruction, particularly through readings of Rousseau’s Confessions. While de Man emphasizes a “philological” mode of readin...

DERRIDA AND KRISTEVA PLAY SOLLERS’ NUMBERS (A Gamer’s Mode d’emploi)

Jacques Derrida’s influential essay “Dissemination” (1969) offers a detailed commentary and subtle response to Philippe Sollers’ novel Numbers (1968), which he calls a “textual machine.” Elaborating some of her most fascinating concepts, Julia Kristeva’s essay...

CONCEPTUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HERMENEUTICS

THE PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH