Derrida on Being as Presence: Questions and Quests

David A. White

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2022

Derrida on Being as Presence

Questions and Quests

David A. White

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110540147

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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.

The juxtaposition of Derrida’s basic notions stated in his early work with traditional metaphysical concepts and Distinctions; the application of these evaluations to Derrida’s conclusions regarding theoretical elements in philosophy of language.

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David E. White

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Open Access Download PDF	XIII
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	XVI
Part I: Presence and the History of Metaphysics
1 Being as Presence: Systemic Considerations Open Access Download PDF	2
2 Presence and the Question of Evidence Open Access Download PDF	34
3 Being as Presence: Transcendental Dimensions Open Access Download PDF	54
Part II: Being as Presence and the Aggregations of Language
4 Signification: Meaning and Referentiality Open Access Download PDF	90
5 Context and Concept Open Access Download PDF	126
6 Traces of Negation Open Access Download PDF	153
7 Iterability Open Access Download PDF	177
Part III: Presence, Language, Metaphysics
8 The Foundation of Deconstruction: Generalities at Play Open Access Download PDF	228
9 The Deconstruction of Deconstruction: Prelude to a Metaphysics Open Access Download PDF	269
10 Toward a Deconstructed Metaphysics Open Access Download PDF	299
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	321
Index Open Access Download PDF	325

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Researchers at the interface between continental and analytic philosophy of language; students of Derrida
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Published: April 24, 2017
ISBN: 9783110540147

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Published: April 24, 2017
ISBN: 9783110540130