Jacques Derrida: Section 4

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher credited with launching the Deconstructionist movement, argues his theories in this program. Derrida begins with a frank discussion on the ethical problems of Deconstruction, especially in relation to human rights. He argues that Deconstruction is not a disillusion of the subject, it is first and foremost a historical or genealogical analysis of that subject and an attempt to focus on a universal translation of it. Derrida points out that Deconstruction is mainly an affirmation—and it goes further and changes the nature of the subject—and is neither "reconstruction" nor "destruction."

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[flap2323]

you must be playing playstation3

[BlacknWhitesAlright]

An amazing talk. I went from an understanding of his basic idioms in the words of his enemies do discovering that he agrees very much with my own better (that is to say, positive-result-producing) thoughts on the world's and life's workings.

[waxinggrasshopper]

@Onieracraft

Indeed. Perhaps the phenomenological move and the common origin in Husserl that seems to me to draw Heidegger and Derrida closest. Not that Nietzsche wasn't an influence on them both, but Derrida has always seemed to me to steal Heidegger's thunder.

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[Onieracraft]

@waxinggrasshopper

How much did he get from Heidegger here that Heidegger didn't get from Nietzsche?

[Onieracraft]

@realitycheck888

"We" remember? Who are "we"? You are ofcourse referring to Western Civilization. So we are then simply dealing with concentric circles of culture here, Western languages being crafted out of common Latin and Greek roots. Aristotle will never be more popular than Confucius in China. The fact that there are larger circles does not negate the existence and impact of the smaller ones.

[xiuxiu12]

I'd like to deconstruct that hegemonic neck-tie of his, you guys feel me?

[waxinggrasshopper]

How come he never mentions that he got it all from Heidegger? (except the move to questioning and deconstructing nationalism, of course)

[animesuxxxx]

@realitycheck888 Derrida responds, "Who is we?"

[realitycheck888]

Derrida overestimates the extend to which a language can influence the truth of a statement, and he overestimates the influence a philosopher's nationality can have on their ideas. We remember the works of particular philosophers, writers and artists because they had it in them to transcend their particular political environments (which is why so many of them ran in to trouble of course!) as opposed to mediocrity we forget who often relied upon slogans, and established systems of belief.

[hindustantimesmedia]

good to hear derrida linking the "subject" to "universal declaration."

[Aedox1]

In actual world we see the crisis of the center, we see the explosion of a difference that was jammed by the metaphysics of presence .