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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... regards these theories of identity as displacements of what is , for him , of course , a false notion of self - consciousness because he operates within the modern European approach to language , which , at least since Gottlob Frege ...
... regards the principle of personal self - identity and the principle of identity ( and the correlate , the principle of contradiction ) as founding all sys- tematic thought ( in other words , all systematic thought in our history has ...
... regards as prototypes of himself ( in that they often catch " glimmers " of what shall be called differance ) , see his studies of Heidegger ( " Ousia et gramme , " Marges , pp . 31-78 ) and Nietzsche ( the whole of Eperons ) . What ...
... regard individual things ( i.e. , individual identities which are in some ways like other things and in some ways unique ) as an illusion , and to regard the " conductive threads " which link these things as an illusion . Rather , the ...
... regards as the threat of reification , of a kind of hypostasis of ideas , and hence a deceptive recovery of a theory of identity . When he addresses the question posed by that which survives negative refer- ence , he treats it within ...