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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... operative in the Logical Investigations as guarantor of verbal sense and in the Ideas as guarantor of noetic - noematic meaning — an inevitable hierarchy of concepts can be seen to unfold . With the internal workings of a transcendent ...
... operative in a relationship of signifyings with other words . For example , horizontally ( syntactically ) it has relationship with the other words in its sentence ( and beyond ) ; and vertically ( lex- ically ) it has relationship with ...
... 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 . " And ( as we narrow in on ...
... operative in a closed universe , and their gradual " fanning out " to infinity , Derrida calls dissemination . Hypothetical relationships between signified and signifier can be summarized , with at least some show of adequacy , by the ...
... operative in classical self - identity can never really be reflected by the expression ( nomen ) which is its " mirror , " for during the " time it takes " for the reflexive act to catch the originating factor , the latter has changed ...