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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... format which is rational , straightforward , even conventional . If you be a ' decon- structive ' sort of thinker , give Derrida on the Mend a chance : I think you will find that the " body " of the text self - deconstructs , though ...
... format we have just seen operative in reflexivity , and in the single word ) ex- hibits the following model . Let us utilize again the exemplary lexis we have been generating : " The vessel is the empty space where content can dwell ...
... FORMAT INWARDS OUTWARDS 1 SIGNIFIED- SIGNIFIER 2 SIGNIFIER ← SIGNIFIED 3 SIGNIFIED / SIGNIFIER SIGNIFIED / SIGNIFIER 4 SIGNIFIER ← SIGNIFIED The model with which we are concerned is what we have called " concentric , " and again ...
... format 1 represents the traditional relationship : the signified , the nominans , is mirrored by the signifier ; the arrow indicates the " originating " function of the signified , which is most often understood to " express " itself by ...
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