Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than
Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at
Derrida’s first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine
sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the École Normale Supérieure, these
lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms
with the German philosopher and his magnum opus, Being and Time. They
provide not only crucial insight into the gestation of some of
Derrida’s primary conceptual concerns—indeed, it is here that he
first uses, with some hesitation, the word “deconstruction”—but
an analysis of Being and Time that is of extraordinary value to
readers of Heidegger or anyone interested in modern philosophy.
Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of
the notoriously difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with
patient rigor and acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of
Heidegger’s prose. At this time in intellectual history, Heidegger
was still somewhat unfamiliar to French readers, and Being and Time
had only been partially translated into French. Here Derrida mostly
uses his own translations, giving his own reading of Heidegger that
directly challenges the French existential reception initiated earlier
by Sartre. He focuses especially on Heidegger’s Destruktion (which
Derrida would translate both into “solicitation” and
“deconstruction”) of the history of ontology, and indeed of
ontology as such, concentrating on passages that call for a rethinking
of the place of history in the question of being, and developing a
radical account of the place of metaphoricity in Heidegger’s
thinking. This is a rare window onto
Derrida’s formative years, and in it we can already see the
philosopher we’ve come to recognize—one characterized by a bravura
of exegesis and an inventiveness of thought that are particularly and
singularly his.
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ISBN
9780226355252
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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