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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... Things Themselves ' , " in Literary Criticism and Philosophy , ed . Joseph Strelka , copyright 1983 . The Johns Hopkins University Press , Baltimore , for excerpts from Jacques Derrida , Of Grammatology , trans . G. C. Spivak ...
... things ( res ) of the world according to their senses ( sensus , eidoi ) , senses which are determined in and through divine Logos ; or whether the tran- scendental signified be an Aristotelian First Cause , the " active rea- son " in ...
... things is how things appear in language . Thus to study the principle of identity , that is , how things are self - identical ( " whatever is , is " ) , is to study language . When " I " identify a thing as self - identical , the ...
... things as they may , the influence of Derrida on both European and Anglo - American belles lettres , espe- cially literature , literary theory , and literary criticism , has been — as is commonly acknowledged — nothing short of ...
... things no longer exists . The human mind cannot constitute for itself the iden- tity of other things.21 Yet , continues Derrida , the sum total of phonic signifiers , that is , each and every one of them , is arbitrary . No less ...