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Yeah, I agree. (My cynical suspicion is that Derrida's starting with indication/expression for the theatricality: The very first distinction in the ve...

The best I can think is that it would be a matter of evidence - if evidentiary intuitions* are built on the nonevident (or intertwined with them all t...

There are actually a few different types of expression (or, at least, ways of considering expression) that Husserl identifies in the first logical inv...

It seems to me that when Derrida emphasizes Husserl's purported need for indication to be extrinsic to expression, he's trying to paint Husserl as som...

I don't get the sense that the independence of natural indication, in particular, is a big priority for Husserl. He seems far more interested in expre...

I agree with this (that bit in the relevant section of LI about applying a formula because its sanctified by authority, or out of habit versus underst...

I think I have a better sense now of why Derrida thinks indication's entanglement with expression could be a problem for Husserl. The project of Logic...

ha, this'd be team Derrida (the end of it anyway)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJnomklVBI

(This summary is pretty rough and leaves a few things out, but just to at least get things started:) Chapter 2 continues the close reading of Husserl’...

I'll take a stab at it

Yeah, I think you're right and that's why Derrida renders bedeutung as 'vouloir-dire.'

I think the big question is what is indicated in communicative speech (according to Husserl/Derrida). Is it the speaker's inner experience, the meanin...

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thats two weeks from now! What if i fall into a well before then?

the language-learning case is interesting. People use 'samples' all the time without trying to communicate what the sample itself is trying to communi...

That's true, and maybe this points to a cleavage between Derrida & Husserl, but Husserl explicitly (itallically) specifies that this 'entanglement' oc...

In the same vein, I think you would find yourself surprised if, upon requesting a whiskey, the flight attendant stared at you blankly or responded "th...

Just a thought: even with a road sign, we take heed because we know there is an intelligence behind the words arranged there. We may not know who in p...

Alright, so Husserl almost definitely has (1) in mind. From §7 of the Logical Investigation:"...all expressions in communicative speech function as in...

I like all these questions but it's tough to discuss them without borrowing from the coming chapters. Whether the distinction is plausible seems to be...

I can't find a good angle to get a conversation rolling. What were some of the questions/concerns you had?

Nope, Husserl. It will become clearer as the book progresses, but this 'solitary life of the soul' is central to Husserl's discussion of expression. H...

That really is a thorough summary. I'm struggling to find anything to add. Importantly, Husserl wants to argue the opposite. He says there are express...

One of the most interesting gossipy tidbits about Kojeve is that he had an intimate friendship with Leo Strauss (the godfather of American neoconserva...

There was a little discussion of this on the ur-thread. Basically: The introduction is ultra-ultra-dense, assumes a lot of background knowledge, and b...

I think Derrida had a single genuine insight and then made a career of playing with that insight in the silliest ways. Difference and Repetition, I th...

For me it's the finality of death. As long as our coming-into-being is mysterious (and it really is) it's hard to understand what death is and how tru...

THOUGH, I will say his "Kant's critical philosophy' is the best, most lucid introduction to Kant out there. No bullshit, super readable, incredibly in...

I have a real soft spot for Deleuze. I will admit that I got into Deleuze when I used to smoke a lot of weed. I can't defend his prose - which is as d...

I was at a high school party and the almost archetypally beautiful daughter of the most prominent protestant family was there and she said "ok hot peo...

I was raised half-protestant, half-catholic (we switched churches once a year as part of a very strange marital compromise) The protestant families we...

That's an interesting angle -and would make total sense, but I don't have the background to verify it either.

Then where?? It's such a strange phenomenon.

Do you have any sense of where Hegel's style came from? It's baffling to me. I haven't read Fichte. Is it Fichte?

There was a moment for me (second and only full read-through) when the style 'clicked' and it was (relatively) smooth sailing from there. It's strange...

That's such a big goal though! I'm wary of beauty with a capital B. Or at least seeking it explicitly, keeping it in mind. When the vicissitudes of li...

One last little tidbit. The New Yorker did a profile of Martha Nussbaum this summer. Two passages from the piece work perfectly together. "The lecture...

In other words Kant & Husserl were clearly driven by the need to organize and schematize, Kierkegaard & Schopenhauer by the need to be adored for geni...

Ok, but I'm sure you'd agree that the point is not to approach life in way x, in order that one be serious. Rather, the fact that one approaches life ...

I love Heidegger, don't get me wrong, but Division II has all the seeds, especially in this climactic paragraph: "Resoluteness implies handing oneself...

But hamlet and king lear are probably his two funniest plays! Symmetrically, good comedy incorporates the tragic - it doesn't deny it.

heh, well... ;)

Exactly. There's certainly nothing wrong with rigor or systematization, and constructing well-wrought arguments (as well as finding the chinks in the ...

I love The Mirror too (especially that tracking shot with the burning cottage in the rain), but it's been a long time since I've seen it, and - probab...

I feel similarly - when a movie or piece of music works for me, it dies so in a concrete way which is probably forever after irretrievable. The pure e...

I think it's hard to to say "Good art is meant to x" Different types of art serve different functions. Some art unsettles, some soothes. Though I thin...

It sounds very cloying, but there's a scene in Andrei Rublev that gets me every time - There's this peasant stable in which are gathered a group of pe...

For me, it's Tarkovsky that does it, really does it. Watching Stalker or Andrei Rublev, stoned, in an enclosed and warm-lit setting - it's very hard t...

What would you consider Proust's 'stance'?

Eh, Ligotti is a very limited, adolescent writer, so it's no surprise his philosophy sucks. On the other hand, have you read Proust? My sense is he'd ...