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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... " Heideggerian . " Indeed , he takes what is clearly a mischievous delight in arguing that even the most defiantly non - metaphysical approaches are founded directe vel indi- recte on a " philosophy of presence , " on 4 Part 1.
... argument and rhetoric which characterize Continental thinkers on the one hand and the Anglo - Americans on the other are so diver- gent that for the most part Derrida is unnoticed by professional phi- losophers in the United States . As ...
... argument leads to " self- contradiction " ) . And Saussure's attempt to alchemize a " totality " into another ontological mode — into an " order " with different properties if you will — even though his premises give no such warrant ...
... argument , heralded by the above pas- sage , le dédoublement , 26 from his catch - phrase , " . . . le double dédou- ble ce qu'il redouble . " 27 The reflection , the image , the signifier , the double , " the double splits what it ...
... argument of dedoublement has led , then , to the " signified under erasure , " since the logic of the linguistic model which founds " signifier and signified " only allows the " signified " and all alleged signs to be pure signifiers ...