Finding a Systematic Base for Derrida’s Work

• Authors: Dino Galetti
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Derrida became increasingly overt in later years in suggesting that his work displays a rigour, and even a “logic.” Further, it is becoming accepted that deconstruction arose in dialogue with Husserl. In support of these views, this article points out that in 1990 Derrida told us that his first work of 1954 revealsa “law” which guides his career, and that some responses had already arisen there. The work of 1954 is examined, and an interrelated “system” developed by which the responses relate to the law, to help find a common, early and systematic base to apply to Derrida’s oeuvre as it develops. Brief examples will be pointed to in closing to show that this basis subsists, at least in part, in later work.

Keywords

EN

Logic; Deconstruction; Derrida, Jacques; Husserl, Edmund

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 275-300

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Dino Galetti

• University of the Witwatersrand

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