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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Derrida: Learning to Live « Previous | |Next »
March 23, 2007

An interesting review of Jacques Derrida's Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview by Ramona Fotiade in the Times Literary Supplement. Fotiade says:

The paradoxical manner in which deconstruction worked from within the framework of metaphysics to undermine its system of binary oppositions and its fundamental concepts has often been mistaken for an attempt at “bracketing” reality, subjectivity, existence, in keeping with the postulates of Husserlian phenomenology. Far from suspending or obliterating the contradictions of one’s temporal being in the world, a significant number of Derrida’s works provoke a disconcerting blurring of the boundaries between philosophical and autobiographical writing. Nowhere has this more prominently come into view than in Geoffrey Bennington’s volume, Jacques Derrida (1991), in which the commentator’s critical discourse, occupying the main body of the text (entitled Derridabase) is supplemented by the philosopher’s own reflections in the space normally reserved for footnotes.

Fotiade goes on to say that:
Derrida’s cross-references are occasional rather than purposefully inserted to fit in with the exegesis of his work, which Bennington completed beforehand, and agreed not to alter. Circonfessions thus functions both as a self-contained autobiographical meditation (one that takes its cue from a passage in St Augustine’s Confessions) and, at the same time, as a text whose haphazard interaction with Bennington’s “argued exposition” of deconstruction deliberately subverts its systematic approach by opening it to a dimension of lived, personal experience, now and then punctuated by diary entries.

So we return to lived personal experience that is informed by hauntology that engages with the “spectres” that haunt us.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 6:57 AM | | Comments (1)
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Still though, it's a pun, innit?