Derrida on the MendPurdue University Press, 1984 - 238 sider The pun built into its title, Derrida on the Mend, suggests the thesis of this book. Derrida is indeed astride the "mend" whereby logocentrists (theorists who believe in "organic unity") think to repair the "rents" in organicism. Derrida is indeed devouring the mend, but his quandary is that he must use logic (a logocentric operation) to do so. For Derrida to be "on the mend" in the other sense activating the pun, a means must be found to heal the quandary while preserving deconstruction. This book argues for such a means: the author finds in Nagarjuna, a Buddhist rationalist of the first century A.D, the same three deconstructive techniques used by Derrida. Nagarjuna, however, is able to reinstate logic and organicism while continuing the deconstructive process. He does so through his specialized versions of the Buddhist "two truths," a solution which our author adopts, adapts, and universalizes. The book has four parts. The first provides a lengthy explication and critique of Derrida, a service still much needed by today's philosophers and literary theorists. The second part locates a recension of Heideggerian thought at a site the author calls centric mysticism. Throughout this section, there are original applications to literature. The third part presents the full-scale analysis of Nagarjunist technique, and then goes on to develop a differential Zen contrasting very much with the centric Zen of Suzuki. Replete with treatments of Buddhist poetry, it is bound to be of great interest to Buddhologists. The fourth part applies differentialism to monotheism and Christian theology and develops a nonentitative trinitarianism, which will revise, it is hoped, contemporary theology significantly. Two appendices, in a concrete way, apply to literary theory and criticism what the author has worked out in the body of the book.
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... Derrida on the Mend . Derrida on the Mend came about as follows . For a considerable number of years I have been plying the fabric ( tantra : " warp - threads " ) of phenomenology , hermeneutics , and ' theory of text ' . For a long ...
... Derrida on the Mend is written in my blood . Dear reader , if you be an ' entitative ' sort of thinker , give Derrida on the Mend a chance : I think you will find that the body of the text — unlike this strange preface — adheres to a ...
... Derrida on the Mend , the reader will find the bibliographic references and other critical apparatus some- what " dated . " My apologies , Part 2 and the Appendix were originally written for other occasions and are considerably older ...
... Derrida , Of Grammatology , trans . G. C. Spivak , copyright 1976 . Northwestern University Press , Evanston , for selections from Jacques Derrida , Speech and Phenomena , trans . D. B. Allison , copyright 1973 . Jiyu - Kennett , Roshi ...
... Derrida means all judgments and measurements of " truth " which are logocentric , that is , centered on a concept of truth as logos . And by " logos " he means truth defined as the expression ( or ' signifier ' ) of an originating ...