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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... Cause , the " active rea- son " in which Forms know themselves and proffer themselves as the potential and actual objects of human knowing ; or whether it be Rousseau's divine law breathed into the " sensible cogito " ; or Hus- serl's ...
... cause their formulae are cryptic displacements of the classic princi- ple of personal self - identity , nominans - nomen . Derrida regards these theories of identity as displacements of what is , for him , of course , a false notion of ...
... cause " ; it can just as well mean an " ontological priority , " or many other variants of " begetting " ) . 46 Format 2 indicates what would be the case if the Derridean argu- ment became artificially fixated in its first phase ...
... cause of effacement - somehow " approximates " the " way things really are " 74 better than other alternatives do . That Derrida " privileges " the pure signifier under erasure , and more specifically , that he toils to " account for ...
... causing ( an entity ) to stand still , " are two others . And these senses are divergent , and of course are , all of them , reducible still further . Thus the disconcert- ing issue of undecidability , of which we will in due course ...