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Derrida And the Economy of Differance: Derrida And the Economy of Differance

Derrida And the Economy of Differance

Derrida And the Economy of Differance

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Abyss, 17–20, 152, 182, 196, 198, 199, 201, 213, 224, 227, 229–31, 237; ontological, 192; space of, 200; structural necessity of, 238

Absence, 52; and presence, 20; more fundamental, 10

Accident, 82

Actuality, 4

Aesthetic, transcendental, 143, 207, 235–6

Ama, 121

Analogy, 17, 102

Analysis, structures of, x

Animality, 167–8, 180–1, 189, 201; convergence of with divine, 196

Answer, 8

Archaeology, 23

Arche-trace, concept of, 82

Arche-writing, 82, 154–5, 157, 159–61, 242

Assumptions, metaphysical, 3

Astronomy, 7

Aufhebung, 102, 115, 123, 148, 207–8, 214; as distinct from usurpation, 77; in Hegel’s dialectical system, 76

Authenticity, 230

Author, 62, 64; intentions of, 67

Auto-affection, 145

Bedeutung, 66

Being, 115, 182; absence from presence, 23; as presence, 117; destiny of, 184–5, 188; house of, 158; in language, 187; language of, 117; shepherd of, 183; truth of, 182, 185

Betrayal, xii

Book, 222, 244; closure of, 127; shadow of, 127

Borrowing, 8, 30, 43, 78

Boundaries, 5

Canonization, ix

Castration, 28–29

Categories, 4

Center, 2

Chance, 46–7, 216; into necessity, 56

Chemistry, in relation to alchemy, 7

Closure, 6, 19, 81, 88; of the Book, 127

Code, 52

Commentary, xii, 23

Community, membership in the same, xi; philosophic, ix, xi

Completeness, 5–6, 15

Complicity, 83

Compulsion, hermeneutic, 61

Concept, 5, 9, 98, 103, 117, 150, 221; concept of, 46; constitution of, 156; limits of, 107; form of, 104; resources of, 30

Conception, immaculate, 18

Concepts, 19; proper, 15; pure, 4

Conceptuality, system of, 99

Conclusions, inverse, 67

Confusion, subjective, 10

Conscious, unconscious, 63

Consciousness, 103, 120, 135, 168–70, 189; deconstruction of, 34; displacement of, 172; movement of, 238

Constitution, 18–20; of space and time, 143

Contamination, essential, 74

Context, 90, 227, 239–40

Contradiction, 62, 79–80, 88

Contradictions, as irreducible and necessary, 78; textual, 42

Controversy, x

Crisis, 133

Criteria, 58; metaphysical, 56

Critic, 1

Criticism, 3; literary, ix, 23; reflexivity of, ix; tradition of, ix; traditional, x

Critics, literary, ix

Critique, 3, 5; critique of, 6; in relation to metaphysics, 7

Cruelty, theatre of, 23

Culture, 13

Dasein, 183, 188, 230, 232; authenticity of, 184

Death, 14, 106, 144–5, 190, 192, 194, 203, 225, 230, 234–5; abyss of, 197; as condition of the possibility of the sign, 66; force of, 144; forgetting of, 186; in constitution of subject and object, 180; my proper, 231; overcoming of, 107; own, 184; principle of, 152, 228–9; relationship to, 180; significance of as abyss, 145; subject’s relation to, 195; will to, 233; work of, 232

Deconstruction, ix, x, 1, 3–4, 14, 23, 26, 30, 33, 44, 62, 68; aim of, 6, 15, 174; and Husserl’s phenomenology, 85; as doubling commentary, 29; as not violating metaphysics, 68; as process, 74; as reduced to metaphysics, 36; as repeatable process, 29; attachment to metaphysics, 74; conditions of the possibility of, 59–60, 89; Derrida’s principle of principles, 86; deconstruction of, 88; deconstruction of totality, 87; double gesture of, 73; explicit limits of, 88; extending the limits of meaningfulness, 28; final gesture of, 77; foundations of scientificity, 34; goals or intentions, 25; in need of, 17; initial intention of, 81; legitimacy of, 54; le propre of, 24; new possibility of truth, 28; non-method as, 164; not neutral, 24; own necessary attachment, 78; proper to, 23; reduce the reduction, 89; reduction to metaphysics, 36; relation to phenomenology, 79; revelation of différance by, 88; risks of, 33; role of, 90; significance of, x; style of, 30; sustains itself as irreversible, 86; telos of, 87, 89; tradition of metaphysics, 6; ultimate target of project, 73; usurpation of metaphysics, 89; work of, 6, 28–9, 184

Demand, impossible, 13

Dependence, 50

Desire, 7, 54, 172; for pure presence, 104; for transcendental signified, 108, 111; Husserl’s obstinate desire, 54; philosophic, 128; satisfied, 13; thwarted, 13

Dialectics, in Hegel, 23, 140

Dichotomy, metaphysical, 37

Différance, 20,48–9, 73, 75–8, 83–7, 90, 96, 106, 118, 120–1, 128–9, 135–6, 138, 140, 145, 149, 157, 161, 167, 181, 185–6, 197–9, 202, 206–7, 209–10, 213, 215, 222, 231, 234, 236, 238, 244; a fortiori of, 76; as economy, 179, 205; as Idea in Kantian sense, 89; as inaugural movement, 160; as movement itself, 77; as a nickname, 212; as principle of representation, 203; as relation, 89; as space of inscription, 236; as temporality, 127; at the heart of presence, 76; constituted as a telos, 89; economy of, 62, 71, 76–7, 87, 90; effect of, 182; epoch of, 146, 162; excluded from metaphysics, 83; function of, 158; is abyss, 204; is productive, 159; its violence with usurpation, 77; movement of, 10, 14, 41, 239, 241, 243; name of, 211; ontological difference, 182; orbit of, 242; play of, 63, 188–9, 214–5, 232, 240; recogition of, 2; relation to death, 176; space of, 177; space of representation, 168; structure of, 147, 150, 152, 216, 225; use of, 85; usurpation by, 90; work of, 65

Difference, ontological, 185

Discourse, Freudian, 35; limit of philosophic, 93; Nietzschean, 35; philosophic, 94, 108; philosophical and non-philosophical, 95; significance of all, 94; usage of, 51

Disease, 32

Divinity, 201

Dogmatism, 55

Double bind, breaking of, 68

Dreams, 176; work of unconscious, 178

Duplicity, 42

Economy, 25, 28, 36, 43, 59, 69, 82, 87, 144, 189, 203, 209, 211, 218; as play, 67; definite, unified, 67; effect of an, 208; general, 86; general concept of, 205; larger, 86; of presence and absence, 144; questions of, 24; unites and differentiates, 90; whose laws can be revealed, 76

Effacement, 12, 116; essential, 193

Ego, empirical, 191; transcendental, 154, 190–1, 193

Eidos, 98, 119, 135

Ekstasis, 183

Empiricism, 23

Envelopment, 114, 116

Epistème, 28

Essence, 98, 124; and appearance, 71–2

Ethics, 171–2, 226–8; condition of, 162

Ethnocentrism, 70

Evidence, moment of, 10

Excess, 141, 153

Exclusion, 39, 64; gestures of, 40

Exemplarity, 37; in question, 56; model of, 216; structures of, 55

Experience, 4, 9–10, 13, 100, 160; all possible, 15; bounds of, 16; for Derrida, 10; Kant’s notion of, 10

Exposition, stylistic manner of, xi

Exteriority, 160–1

Face, 172

Falsity, 11, 107

Fiction, 11

Fil conducteur, 29, 32

Finitude, 32

Flux,165–6

Force, 128, 135, 197, 224; becoming-phenomenon of, 129; daemonic, 228–9; de faiblesse, 214; differences of, 176; of force, 132; of the imagination, 131; of the understanding, 237; play of, 198; the other language, 130

Forgetting, 139, 185

Form, 117, 122, 132; and content, 68; and matter, 68; concept of, 121; formation of, 149; metaphysical forms, 56

Fort/da, 227–8, 233

Framing, xv, 8

Gelassenheit, 131

Generalizability, limits of, 72

Gestures, deconstructive, 37, 51, 56, 59, 71, 76–7

Givenness, 118

God, 100, 108, 173–4; death of, 26, 182, 196–9

Good, 105

Grammatology, 27, 38, 64, 81, 86, 156; general, 82; possibility and impossibility of, 83–4

Ground, 6, 20

Guilt, 171–3

Habitation, 231

Harmony, 193; between reason and understanding, 9

Heliotrope, 123

Hermeneutics, 23

Hinge, 51

Historicity, fundamental, 8

History, 13, 26, 32, 98; and society, 223–41; arche and telos of, 98; end of, 208; metaphysics of, 103; notion of as concept, 102; Reason’s, 102; unity of, 103

Homology, 85

Humanism, 173, 182; limits of, 182

Humanity, 168

Ideal, in the Kantian sense, 25, 73, 81, 85–6, 89, 143, 240

Ideality, 73–4, 123, 237, 239

Idiom, 136–8, 128, 196; pure, 136, 139–40

Idiomatic, 136

Illegitimacy, xi

Illusion, 10; dialectical, 1; unavoidable, 16

Image, 145

Imagination, 142, 144–5; Kantian, 143; operation of, 131; power of, 144

Immediacy, 107

Impropriety, 43, 75, 85

Impurity, 32

Inauthenticity, 230

Incest, 226; original, 225

Inclusion, 39; and exclusion, 87

Infidelity, 47; fidelity to, 62

Infinity, 23, 142, 174, 200; as unnameable, 170

Inhabiting, 43

Inscription, 225; as habitation, 157, 240; in general, 158; worldly, 192

Institutions, material, 3

Intention, 80, 95; stated, 63

Intentionality, 34

Interpretation, ix, 9

Intersubjectivity, 123; as foundation for ethics, 172; basis of, 192; possibility of the constitution, 162; the condition of truth as, 134; transcendental, 193

Intertexuality, xv

Intuition, 4; absence of, 10, 51; a priori forms of, 242

Inversion, 68, 70, 73, 243; image of, 67

Irresponsibility, freedom of, 223

Judgment, 3; synthetic a priori, 4

Justice, 161

Knowledge, 3–4, 10, 134; absolute, 105–6, 158, 208; limits of, 15

Language, 39, 51, 108, 120, 123, 128, 132, 134, 138, 144, 146, 148, 150, 183, 214, 222–3; advent of, 137; and force, 135; as structure, 130; limits of, 129, 146; order of, 139; ordinary, 108; originary violence of, 136; patterns of, 27; powerlessness of, 130; property of, 147; resists temporality, 140; the element of truth, 107

Law, 4, 16, 18, 25–6, 28, 33, 48, 56, 124, 156, 224; a function of writing, 235; blindness to, 220; once written, 138; possibility of, 136

Lawbound, 19

Learning, 118

Le fil conducteur; 25

Le visage, 171

Liberty, 144

Life, 58; concept of, 45; empirical, 58; transcendental, 58

Limits, 14, 32, 38, 39, 80–1, 83, 88; explicit demarcation of, 80

Linear, 105

Linguistics, 55, 70; and grammatology, 88; Saussure’s, 46, 81

Logocentrism, 196; epoch of, 104

Logos, 2, 9, 11, 114, 117, 153–6, 158, 196, 199; epoch of, 105; own father, 11

Madness, 115, 189, 201, 213, 221–2; history of, 102; structure of, 222

Man, 26; definition of, 182; essence of, 183, 185, 196

Margins, 8

Master, and slave, 139, 156

Maternity, structure of, 209

Meaning, 2, 108, 151, 159–60, 177, 196; absence of intuition, 10; a collective affair, 223; condition of the possibility of, 34; constitution of, 161; contingent upon intuition, 10; determination of, 114; fall of, 161; lack of intuition, 2; limit of the concept, 31; related to intention, 101

Memory, 27, 175, 176, 178

Message, 52

Metaphor, 11, 19, 25, 32, 45, 101, 108, 123, 161, 187, 241; as displacement of meaning, 122; betrayal by, 187; concept of, 102; written, 177

Metaphors, biological, 30; Derrida’s system of, 32; system of sexual, 16

Metaphorization, movement of, 123

Metaphysics, 2–5, 7, 9–13, 16, 23, 26, 28, 33, 39, 41, 58, 72–3, 83, 90, 94, 100, 159, 199; a fortiori of all meaning, 10; and language, 141; and non-metaphysics, 67; all Western methods included, 97; as logocentrism, 106; as metaphor, 161; as such, 8, 99; closure of, 167; concept of, 5, 97–8; condition of the possibility of, 1, 4, 72, 117, 120; deconstruction of, 2, 14, 23, 25; Derrida’s, 11, 44; desire as the heart of, 7, 12; diversity of, 7; domination of, 211; end of, 8; essence of, 8; extensive range of, 9; exterior to différance, 83; “favorite child of reason,” 9; fiction of, 11; for Derrida, 13; foundations and origins of, 4; founding opposition, 68; freed from responsibility, 10; genealogy of, 116; history of, 7–8, 14, 17, 98, 108; identity of, 97; inhabits our language, 108; issue of, 7; limiting of, 26; limits of, 20; limits of logocentric, 31; necessary condition, 10; oppositions of, 18; origin of, 16, 103, 118; other as other, 36; placed in us, 12; profound unity, 100; question of, 94; relation to deconstruction, 43; relation to non-metaphysics, 56; science of, 7; structure of, 47, 114; system of force, 108; tools of, 8, 44; tradition of, 45, 63; transcendence of, 11; unity in all, 96; unity of, 103; usurpation of, 76–7, 89; what Kant calls, 10

Methodology, ix

Mimesis, 12, 28–9, 32

Mind, human, 18

Model, 172

Monads, 192; harmony of, 191

Movement, 150; active, 159

Multiple, 103

Myth, 11

Mythology, white, 117

Name, 147; proper, 101, 112, 155–6, 162, 212

Naming, as a violence, 136; proper, 137

Nature, 2, 4, 19, 179, 223; for Derrida, 4; for Kant, 9; gives way to, 12; laws of, 9, 16; seducing, 17; supplement of, 11

Necessity, 47; criteria of, 62

Non-contradiction, logic of, 66; principle of, 62–4, 67–8, 72, 200, 206

Non-intuition, 66

Non-simplicity, 32

Nothing, 140, 145

Object, 6; ideality of, 193; lack of intuition of, 2

Objectivity, 82, 147, 156; constitution of, 120, 200; conditions of the possibility of, 6

Ontotheology, 8–9, 25, 104, 174; undoing of, 26

Opening, 81

Opposition, of interior/exterior, 170; metaphysical, 6, 24, 164; predetermined, 37

Orientation, point of, 213

Origin, 2, 3, 5, 13, 49, 85, 87, 131, 166, 167, 234, 242; and telos, 87; as sign, 10; more originary, 20; non-origin of, 18

Originary, 84

Orthodoxy, x; deconstructionist, x

Other, 115, 137, 161, 162, 169, 170, 173, 191; relation of self and, 172

Otherness, 12

Overman, 198

Part, whole and, 115

Past, radical, 163, 176

Patricide, 209

Perception, 168

Pharmakon, 112

Phenomenology, 42, 45, 57, 67, 79, 84, 86, 134, 152, 165, 221, 243; double relation of deconstruction, 80; Husserl’s, 90, 133; of writing, 169; principle of principles, 133; transcendental, 23, 157, 164

Phenomenon, 129

Philosophy, xii, 6, 94, 98, 115; according to Derrida, 6; and non-philosophy, 114; as such, 8, 9; as heliotropic, 108; as theory of metaphor, 122; as totality, 107; boundaries of, 107; concept of, 8; continental, xi; death of, 93; deconstructive allegiance to, 80; discourse of, 101; history of, xii, 14, 34, 96; incompetence of, 149; limits of, 1; origins of, 131; possibility of, 98; relation of textuality to, xi; unity of, 96

Phonologism, 104, 151

Play, 147, 188

Poesis, 32

Practice, 62; textual, x, 29

Predisposition, metaphysical, 12

Presence, 13, 25, 34, 98, 103, 104, 124, 173, 186, 187, 194, 208, 219; and absence, 162; as criterion, 107; as trace of the trace, 122; criterion for evidence, 118; deconstruction of, 34; heart of, 52; living, 10; metaphysics of, 14, 15, 17, 34, 89, 99, 127, 152; originary, 10; philosophy of, 104; teleology of, 186

Present, 95, 105, 120, 167; living, 11

Presentation, 17; originary, 2

Presuppositions, x, 6, 38, 70; system of, 69

Principle, pleasure, 233; reality, 233

Principles, 86

Procedure, borrowing, 43

Production, unconscious textual, 27

Prohibition, 136

Proper, 5, 6, 140, 185; system of, 211

Propositions, synthetic a priori, 9

Propriety, 6

Protention, and retention, 164, 165, 166, 168, 182

Psychoanalysis, textual, 23

Psychology, transcendental, 157

Question, form of, 8, 48; exceeding of, 28; metaphysically structured, 48

Questionability, structure of, 96

Questions, book of, 23; left unasked, 40

Rationality, 154, 156, 183, 204

Reading, corrective, 23; privileged, x

Reason, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 103, 104, 122, 155, 209; aberrations of, 16; call of nature, 9; circle of, 12; and consciousness, 6; contradiction in, 17; critique of pure, 23; and desire, 20; essentially unknowable, 17; for Hegel, 75; ideas of, 4, 15; independence of, 11; light of, 131; limits of, 18; natural destiny of, 15; nature of, 9, 18; play of, 11; pure, 5, 12; realm of, 11; substitute for nature, 220; voice of, 194

Recollection, 118

Reduction, transcendental, 129, 154–5

Repeatability, conditions of the possibility of, 66, 73

Repetition, 72–3, 85, 127, 167, 173, 176, 215, 232, 241; collective, 197; principle of, 203, 233–4; representative, 229; space of, 204, 214

Representation, xii, 2, 12, 17, 134, 144, 167, 203, 224; subject’s relation to, 180

Resistance, 54

Resources, 14, 30

Responsibility, 171

Retention, 173

Revolution, ix

Rights, 58

Sacred, 196, 201

Scène de l’écriture, 174

Science, 7, 28, 134, 147, 156; and philosophy, 153; constitution of its object, 82; incompetence, 149; knowledge as, 5; legitimate, 5; scientificity of, 6, 82, 194; sedimentation of, 192

Sciences, 5

Scientificity, 6; determination of, 60; possibility of, 65

Seduction, 15

Self-effacement, 29

Semiology, 23

Sensibility, 19

Sign, 2, 11–12, 17, 26, 29, 32, 39, 41, 63, 65, 75–6, 79, 85, 98–100, 107–108, 117, 123–4; absence of subject and object, 10; age of, 98; and symbol, 167–8; basic structure of, 74; can constitute objectivity, 107; effacement of, 118; for Derrida, 10; for metaphysics, 75; idea of, 73; in general, 57; meaningfulness of, 10; metaphysical determination of, 73; metaphysical notion of, 47; two types of, 44

Signature, 23, 101

Significance, philosophic, ix

Signification, 173; in general, 52

Signified, 120; as unbound ideality, 119; desire for transcendental, 111; independent, 111; relation of signifier to, 123; transcendental, 13, 108, 167, 225, 240

Signifier, 111, 119–20; and signified, 95; transcendental, 240

Society, 227

Space, 13; spatiality of, 150

Spacing, 121, 124, 160, 201, 235, 239; space of temporality, 150

Spatiality, 210

Speech, 65, 98, 151, 162

Sphere, eidetic, 27

Strategy, 2, 30

Structuralism, 23, 129

Structure, 205–6; signifying, 32

Subject, 2; empirical, 90; transcendental, 90

Subjectivity, absolute, 165; constitution of, 232; levels of, 191

Sublime, 237

Substitution, process of, 213

Supplement, 3, 12–3, 19, 23–4, 32, 75, 106, 121, 144, 150; as substitution, 219; concept of, 218; exorbitant, 205; law of, 225; logic of, 224

Supplementarity, 185; increment of, 188; play of, 20–3, 216–7, 228

Syllogism, 22, 53

Symbol, becoming-sign of, 65

Symptoms, 27, 30, 32

Taboo, 136

Technique, 149

Temporality, 36, 165, 210; constituting movement of, 168; movement of, 206

Tension, 63

Text, ix, xii, 17, 22, 29, 33, 50, 71, 145, 170, 173, 178, 215, 240; absence of, 178; as such, 31; context of, 212; essence of, 69; levels of, 78; structure of as symptom, 32; totality of, 200; true law of, 71; written, 26

Textuality, ix, 25, 42, 53, 141, 210, 217–8, 221; hierarchy in, 62; law of, 224; level of, 212; metaphysical control of, 27; philosophy of, x; structures of, x; two levels of, 63

Thanatos, and Eros, 176

Theology, negative, 182

Theory, metaphor of, 122; deconstructionist, x; literary, ix

Thought, 128; as index, 142

Time, 13, 103, 239; concept of, 80, 99, 105; continuity of, 105

Timing, 235; and spacing, 118

Tone, 61, 80

Totality, 6, 8, 97, 132, 142, 170; relation to infinity, 163

Trace, 33, 35, 43, 117, 121, 155, 164–8, 171–2, 176, 179, 212; life as, 176; movement of, 173; of the other, 163, 169, 174; relation to memory, 180; unmotivated, 48; written as objective, 192

Track, 27, 29, 43

Tradition, xi, xii

Tragedy, birth of, 134

Transcendence, 12

Transgressions, 19

Translatability, 14

Translation, 23, 111–2

Truth, 1, 9, 11, 28, 74, 80, 102, 118, 122, 154, 196; as logos, 104; in philosophic tradition, 2; order of, 139; origin of, 9; purity of, 123; relation to deconstruction, 25, 28

Unconscious, 163, 168, 174

Understanding, 2, 4, 9, 15, 19; condition of the possibility of, 124; constitutes nature as lawbound, 9; divine, 151; gives laws to nature, 9; pure concepts of, 9, 18

Unity, 7, 96

Universality, 72

University, 6

Usurpation, 64, 72, 82, 86, 88–9; act of, 76; necessity of, 65, 83

Valid, objectively, 4

Violation, 65

Violence, xii, 162; intersubjective, 162

Voice, 104, 107, 192

Will, 180

Women, 32

World, 183, 209; condition for the possibility of, 192; unveiled, 132; inverted, 243; objective, 191; play of, 207, 214

Writing, 11, 14, 17, 29, 32, 41, 65, 74, 106–7, 134, 146, 148, 151–3, 161–2, 200–1, 212, 215; advent of, 147; and speech, 195; as condition for the possibility of language, 150; as model for arche-writing, 160; as supplement par excellence, 151; beyond good and evil, 214, 227; condition of law, 194; condition of meaning, 195; conditions of the possibility of, 82; constitutes objectivity, 149; constitution of Being, 17; exceeds the limits of language, 147; general science of, 81; good and bad, 180; debasement of, 98–9; in relation to speech, 80; inscription as habitation, 128; magic pad, 163; metaphysical determination of, 41; model for, 59; more fundamental than language, 148; mystic pad, 178; phenomenology of, 160, 210–1; phonetic, 55, 59, 70; psychic, 175; relation to speech, 46, 61; role of, 237; scene of, 166; space of, 199, 242; structure of, 198, 202

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