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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... Derridean Differentialism 3 Part 2 a / Mid the Tao : Heideggerian Centrism 57 Part 3 Across the Tao : Buddhist 87 Differentialism ( Athwart the a / Mid and Between , I ) Part 4 Across the Tao : Christian 133 Differentialism ( Athwart ...
... Derridean deconstruction and Nagarjunist Buddhism , the former to dismantle the principle of identity , the latter to dis- mantle an entitative theory of dharmas , resorted to the ' same ' logical techniques . But in the Nagarjunist ...
... Derridean dedoublement ' and ' Derridean pure negative reference ' — while deconstructing Augustinian models — will confirm in unexpected ways conciliar definitions of the Trinity . Across the tangle ( vernacular : " an alter / cation ...
... Derridean activity is a differential ' between ' which cleaves ( or better , eludes / elides ) the ' Taoist ' unity of opposites , or any other or- ganicism . The title of part 2 , and the typographical play with the preposition ...
... Inc. , New York , copyright 1960 . The Hokuseido Press , Tokyo , for quotations from R. H. Blyth , Zen and Zen Classics , Vol . 4 , copyright 1966 . PART 1 Between the Tao : Derridean Differentialism i All xiv Acknowledgments.