Jacques Derrida On Martin Heidegger (2000)

In this brief clip, Derrida mentions at least some of the philosophical differences between his approach and that of Heidegger - here, Derrida focuses on Heidegger's notion that only humans 'die' and 'speak,' as well as the latter's great suspicion regarding modern technology ('The Question Concerning Technology')...

In a 1967 interview with Henri Ronse (found in 'Positions'), Derrida outlines his affinities but, importantly, his concerns with Heideggerean thought:

"What I have attempted to do would not have been possible without the opening of
Heidegger's question... would not have been possible without the attention to what Heidegger calls the difference between Being and beings, the ontico-ontological difference such as, in a way, it remains unthought by philosophy. But despite this debt to Heidegger's thought, or rather because of it, I attempt to locate in Heidegger's text—which, no more than any other, is not homogeneous continuous, everywhere equal to the greatest force and to all the consequences of its questions—the signs of a belonging to metaphysics, or to what he calls onto-theology. Moreover, Heidegger recognizes that economically and strategically he had to borrow the syntaxic and lexical resources of the language of metaphysics, as one always must do at the very moment that one deconstructs this language. Therefore we must work to locate these metaphysical holds, and to reorganize unceasingly the form and sites of our questioning. Now, among these holds, the ultimate determination of difference as the ontico-ontological difference—however necessary and decisive this phase may be—still seems to me, in a strange way, to be in the grasp of metaphysics. Perhaps then, moving along lines that would he more Nietzschean than Heideggerean, by going to the end of this thought of the truth of Being, we would have to become open to a différance that is no longer determined, in the language of the West, as the difference between Being and beings. Such a departure is doubtless not possible today, but one could show how it is in preparation. In Heidegger, first of all. Différance... would name provisionally this unfolding of difference, in particular, but not only, or first of all, of the ontico-ontological difference."

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