In this audio clip, Jacques Derrida discusses the 'necessity' of a deconstructive approach, remarking that any desire for total presence ('the metaphysics of presence') can never be achieved and would actually be equivalent to 'death' -- the notion of the Platonic 'Good' (the metaphysical end of Plato's system as described in the sixth book of the 'Republic') would be coextensive with death itself ... presence, for Derrida, is always divided, deferred and different from itself ...
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