Derrida on Being as Presence : Questions and Quests / David A. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, David A., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Jacques Derrida's extensive early writings devoted considerable attention to "being as presence," the reality underlying the history of metaphysics. In Derrida on Being as Presence: Questions and Quests, David A. White develops the intricate conceptual structure of this notion by close exegetical readings drawn from these writings. White discusses cardinal concepts in Derrida's revamping of theoretical considerations pertaining to language-signification, context, negation, iterability-as these considerations depend on the structure of being as presence and also as they ground "deconstructive" reading. White's appraisal raises questions invoking a range of problems. He deploys these questions in conjunction with thematically related quests that arise given Derrida's conviction that the history of metaphysics, as variations on being as presence, has concealed and skewed vital elements of reality. White inflects this critical apparatus concerning being as presence with texts drawn from that history-e.g., by Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Hume, Kant, Whitehead. The essay concludes with a speculative ensemble of provisional categories, or zones of specificity. Implementing these categories will ground the possibility that philosophy in general and metaphysics in particular can be pursued in ways which acknowledge the relevance of Derrida's thought when integrated with the philosophical enterprise as traditionally understood.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Part I: Presence and the History of Metaphysics

1 Being as Presence: Systemic Considerations

2 Presence and the Question of Evidence

3 Being as Presence: Transcendental Dimensions

Part II: Being as Presence and the Aggregations of Language

4 Signification: Meaning and Referentiality

5 Context and Concept

6 Traces of Negation

7 Iterability

Part III: Presence, Language, Metaphysics

8 The Foundation of Deconstruction: Generalities at Play

9 The Deconstruction of Deconstruction: Prelude to a Metaphysics

10 Toward a Deconstructed Metaphysics

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110540147

3110540142

OCLC:

987956026

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