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Ideas of Jacques Derrida, by Text
[French, 1930 - 2005, Born in Algeria.]
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p.5
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p.5
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8210
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Deconstructing philosophy gives the history of concepts, and the repressions behind them
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p.7
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p.7
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8211
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The movement of 'différance' is the root of all the oppositional concepts in our language
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p.23
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21929
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Derrida focuses on ambiguity, but talks of 'dissemination', not traditional multiple meanings
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1968
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Semiology and Grammatology
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p.26
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p.26
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8212
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Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning
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p.40
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p.40
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8213
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I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process
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p.76
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p.76
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8216
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Deconstruction is not neutral; it intervenes
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p.82
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21936
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A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Glendinning]
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p.89
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21937
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Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Glendinning]
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p.191
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6840
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Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Critchley]
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p.63
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21932
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'Différance' is the interwoven history of each sign [Glendinning]
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p.11
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21896
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Philosophy aims to build foundations for thought [May]
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p.16
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21881
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We aim to explore the limits of expression (as in Mallarmé's poetry)
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p.23
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21887
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Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science
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p.29
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21886
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Meanings depend on differences and contrasts
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p.48
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20925
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Hermeneutics blunts truth, by conforming it to the interpreter [Zimmermann,J]
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p.55
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21930
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For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language
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p.55
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21885
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Words exist in 'spacing', so meanings are never synchronic except in writing
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p.56
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21878
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Names have a subjective aspect, especially the role of our own name
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p.56
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21931
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'Dissemination' is opposed to polysemia, since that is irreducible, because of multiple understandings [Glendinning]
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p.59
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4756
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Derrida says that all truth-talk is merely metaphor [Engel]
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p.60
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21884
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Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language
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p.65
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21883
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Sincerity can't be verified, so fiction infuses speech, and hence reality also
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p.68
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21882
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Sentences are contradictory, as they have opposite meanings in some contexts
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p.70
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21933
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Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent [Glendinning]
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p.72
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21879
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Even Kripke can't explain names; the word is the thing, and the thing is the word
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p.73
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21934
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The idea of being as persistent presence, and meaning as conscious intelligibility, are self-destructive [Glendinning]
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p.76
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21935
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The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences
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p.79
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21880
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'Tacit theory' controls our thinking (which is why Freud is important)
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p.82
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21877
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True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing
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p.93
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21890
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Heidegger showed that passing time is the key to consciousness
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p.96
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21889
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'I' is the perfect name, because it denotes without description
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p.126
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21891
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The good is implicitly violent (against evil), so there is no pure good
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p.137
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20934
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Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference [Zimmermann,J]
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p.137
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21892
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Interpretations can be interpreted, so there is no original 'meaning' available
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p.146
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21893
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Philosophy is necessarily metaphorical, and its writing is aesthetic
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p.167
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21888
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Philosophy is just a linguistic display
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p.180
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21895
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Structuralism destroys awareness of dynamic meaning
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p.184
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21894
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Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language
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