Mathematics is an interesting case, and is in fact one of the sources of Derrida's reflections here. Apart from his uni dissertation on Husserl, his e...
Ya, good point. I think this is right, which perhaps also explains in part the sudden appearance of Saussure at the end of the chapter (other than hel...
Its perhaps worth noting that the above line of thought is something Derrida will pursue in his Of Grammatology, published in the same year as VP. Her...
I didn't think much of this footnote when I read it, but now that you highlighted it, here's a crack at it: I think that Derrida is alluding - he does...
James Williams - Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Time: A Critical Introduction and Guide Henry Somers-Hall - Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Ed...
What's interesting though is that the approach of Husserl and Derrida to their work is in some manner reflected in their various philosophies themselv...
I remember reading somewhere (I can't remember where) that Derrida was told by his teacher Jean Hyppolite (one of the major progenitors of French post...
I get what you mean, though I think this is (partly) an issue with the book's structure. The first part of the book is given over to explicating 'the ...
The problem that Derrida will go on to tease out however - and this is more indicated in the first chapter than this one - is that Husserl will go on ...
Re: the last paragraph, it's aim seems to be to indicate the ramifications of Derrida's investigation, an attempt to explain how this seemingly trivia...
I'd be careful about reading the Lacanian subject in terms of 'recognition': recognition belongs to the register of the imaginary, and the imaginary i...
I think this can be accommodated by the ideas articulated in the OP, with some modification. It would require taking into account the plasticity of br...
The analogical approach to 'other minds' is a common approach, but is beset by a problem which is equally often pointed out: what motivates the applic...
Please wait for chapter three! A lot of this stuff gets taken into account there, or at least, is made alot more explicit. May not solve anything, but...
This strikes me as correct and commensurate with Derrida's 'methodology' more generally: his deconstructions are always immanent critiques, and they t...
In the interests of keeping up momentum, might it be worth collapsing the reading weeks for chapters 1 and 2? Having just read over them, c2 is basica...
Heidegger is odd. When he wants to, he can be masterfully clear, and then, just as you think you've got a handle on things, he completely switches it ...
The question of individuation (how things come to be as they are) has always fascinated me, and it's probably what guides everything I do, philosophic...
'Spose it depends whether or not you think taste is an inherently relational category. That is, to be tasty is by definition to be tasty for-someone. ...
No, you're missing the point. I asked what kind of conceptual work the qualifier 'objective' in 'objective truth' does, and you replied that it means ...
One wonders what kind of conceptual work the qualifier 'objective' in 'objective truth' does. Assuming that any other kind of 'truth' simply would not...
That's fair enough I think, and it's not the first time I've heard that line of reasoning used. As with any hot potato, I think there's always a degre...
Again, I'm simply not interested in policing the discourse of feminism in order to keep it in it's 'proper place'. Whatever my feminism is, it doesn't...
The issues you raise are important, but they belong as much to feminism as they do a critique from without. What I find unproductive is not your raisi...
Hi Vegabond, I appreciate where you are coming from but in truth, I find discussions such as the one you're promoting unproductive. My feminism means ...
Speaking for myself, I identify as a feminist - a male feminist - and I think it's important if only to normalize the term, to make it absolutely pede...
Pictures like that make me happy, haha. I should mention - not to burst your bubble! - that there's a newer translation of Ideas by Daniel Dahlstrom t...
Heh, the planning paradox seems to be almost exactly similar to the one that Freud encountered after postulating his pleasure principle: how to reconc...
I'm happy to provide 'technical advice' as it were, questions about terminology and so on. Note that it does get somewhat easier after the introductio...
Took a quick read though the introduction and there's a bit more assumed knowledge in there than I recall (it gets 'easier' when the book 'starts' pro...
Yall need to remember that we're just a little forum run by guys and gals (?) who like a good philosophical yarn once in a while. We aren't an institu...
Good, I prefer it that way. No it's not the 'oh it's all mysterious' that gets me, its more like in the face of: 'look what we can say if we take this...
OK some prelim: it's 7 chapters plus an introduction of about 10 to 15 pages each, not including the translator's introduction (for the Lawlor transla...
Because I think it's utterly ridiculous - and I'm not just being polemic, I really find it completely incredulous - that when we can show the grounds ...
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