A conversation and a letter. Heidegger, Derrida, and the (un)translatable East

• Authors: Lorenzo Marinucci
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This text was born out of a curious parallelism. Both Heidegger and Derrida happened to be, at one point of their biographical and philosophical paths, before a Japanese man. Also, they both decided to write about this “encounter” (a notion that has a degree of importance in both their philosophies). In doing this, they decided to employ and invest into this alterity and availability, although differences are readily noticeable. Their respective medium choices - for Heidegger the deep, enclosed intimity of language as Gespräch, for Derrida the travelling openness of a letter (what else?) - can be seen as a first glimpse of their final endeavors. Presenting the oncoming questions, - somehow reducible to one, “How can we communicate with the other/ Other?” - through a series of crossed chapters eventually focusing on Derrida, is justified by the impression that, as in polyphony, each of the two voices/tracks [traces] reveals something hidden in the other. Laying the one upon the other lets not only perceive their dissonances and disparities, but lets emerge from their own supplementary encounter - their playing tag - a set of subtler, flavorful questions.

Keywords

EN

Philosophy of translation; Japanese; Deconstructivism

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2015-02-25

accepted

2015-04-10

online

2015-08-24

Contributors

author

Lorenzo Marinucci

• Sapienza University of Rome

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opli-2015-0017