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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... called contemporary " left - wing Heideggerians " confound their Der- ridean deconstruction of Heidegger with a Gadamerian appropriation of Heidegger . Their work , which I - by the way — very much affirm , performs the former ; in part ...
... called signifier . Derrida begins with examples provided by Saussure himself ( though Saussure , according to Derrida's reading , grieved over them since they had the wherewithal to dissolve his whole linguistic theory ) .28 Saussure's ...
... called signifier can rebound ( as we have seen in the above examples ) and make " half " of the so - called signified into a signifier . The signified itself is thus distributed into two functions , signified and signifier , which it ...
... called signified , since it is part of language , functions only as signifier . Let us return to a practical example again . I very purposefully resort to an example of cultural difference which is a favorite of mine ( which , indeed ...
... concerned is what we have called " concentric , " and again , " signified " and " signifier " can be understood as any two points on the linear sequence entailing movement be- tween " innermost " and " outermost . " However 16 Part 1.