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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... theologians would come upon a ' differ- ential theology ' in excess of ' deconstructionist theology ' . And strangely , the differential theology which is released from the sur- plus of deconstruction is a disciplined and even ' con ...
... theology that Heidegger reminds us of , are more or less immediately inseparable from the instance of logos , or of a reason thought within the lineage of the logos , in whatever sense it is understood : in the pre - Socratic or the ...
... theology ) lineage of logocentrism , his purpose of course is to take aim at modern " thought , " be it post - Hegelian , an- thropological , structuralist , or even " Heideggerian . " Indeed , he takes what is clearly a mischievous ...
... theology to the " rational " but unconscious workings of everyday mind . As negative theology defines God only by what God is not , the human mind , for Derrida , always defines by negative refer- ence and only by negative reference ...
... theology ( among other sources ) , yet his firm rejection of a transcendental nucleus , or any nuclei! at all . And of even greater relevance , because Derrida surely deems it the most likely " temptation " at this point , is his firm ...