Derrida's first book-length work, The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's
Philosophy, was originally written as a dissertation for his diplôme
d'études supérieures in 1953 and 1954. Surveying Husserl's major
works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal
tension in Husserl's central notion of genesis, and gives us our first
glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead
Derrida to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of
deconstruction. For Derrida, the problem of genesis in Husserl's
philosophy is that both temporality and meaning must be generated by
prior acts of the transcendental subject, but transcendental
subjectivity must itself be constituted by an act of genesis. Hence,
the notion of genesis in the phenomenological sense underlies both
temporality and atemporality, history and philosophy, resulting in a
tension that Derrida sees as ultimately unresolvable yet central to
the practice of phenomenology. Ten years later, Derrida moved away
from phenomenology entirely, arguing in his introduction to Husserl's
posthumously published Origin of Geometry and his own Speech and
Phenomena that the phenomenological project has neither resolved this
tension nor expressly worked with it. The Problem of Genesis
complements these other works, showing the development of Derrida's
approach to phenomenology as well as documenting the state of
phenomenological thought in France during a particularly fertile
period, when Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and
Tran-Duc-Thao, as well as Derrida, were all working through it. But
the book is most important in allowing us to follow Derrida's own
development as a philosopher by tracing the roots of his later work in
deconstruction to these early critical reflections on Husserl's
phenomenology. "A dissertation is not merely a prerequisite for an
academic job. It may set the stage for a scholar's life project. So,
the doctoral dissertations of Max Weber and Jacques Derrida, never
before available in English, may be of more than passing interest. In
June, the University of Chicago Press will publish Mr. Derrida's
dissertation, The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy, which
the French philosopher wrote in 1953-54 as a doctoral student, and
which did not appear in French until 1990. From the start, Mr Derrida
displayed his inventive linguistic style and flouting of
convention."—Danny Postel, Chronicle of Higher Education
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9780226143774
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2018
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University of Chicago Press
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