I’m picking up from the same lecture course I was looking at from Derrida on concepts and metaphors, this time beginning a series on Life. If DNA is information like a text that is transmitted and deciphered without being “understood” as we typically talk about texts and meanings constructed hermeneutically, then is Derrida right that … (Part 1) Derrida and Jacob on Life and Writing

δῆλον γὰρ ὡς ὑμεῖς μὲν ταῦτα [τί ποτε βούλεσθε σημαίνειν ὁπόταν ὂν φθέγγησθε] πάλαι γιγνώσκετε, ἡμεῖς δὲ πρὸ τοῦ μὲν ᾠόμεθα, νῦν δ’ ἠπορήκαμεν … This is translated as: “For manifestly you have long been aware of what you mean when you use the expression ‘being’. We, however, who used to think we understood it, … CONCLUSION: ONLY A GOD …

I previously covered the first 3 lectures of Derrida’s Life/Death seminar focusing on what Derrida calls the Metaphoricity of the Metaphor and the Conceptuality of the Concept. That served as a good beginning and now I’d like to move on with an introduction to his fourth lecture. Nietzsche has a passage about “to schematize” and … (Part 1) Derrida and The Logic of the Supplement The Supplement of the Other, of Death, of Meaning, of Life

In relation to Leibniz’s principle of ground/reason, Heidegger clarifies this issue in his 1957 book The Principle of Reason, “in Leibniz’s sense, a ratio sufficiens, a sufficient reason, isn’t at all a ground capable of supporting a being so that it doesn’t straightaway fall into nothing. A sufficient reason is one that reaches and offers … (CONCLUSION) The Metaphoricity of Metaphor and the Conceptuality of the Concept with Heidegger and Derrida: A Case Study of Angelus Silesius

Interpretations are not hermeneutics of reading but political interventions in the political rewriting of the text. This has always been the case, but especially so since what is called the end of philosophy, since the textual indicator named Hegel. It is not an accident but an effect of the structure of all post-Hegelian texts that … (PART 2) The Metaphoricity of Metaphor and the Conceptuality of the Concept with Heidegger and Derrida: Example, Exemplar, and Analogy Based Thinking.

“The metaphoricity of metaphor and the conceptuality of the concept …” – Derrida, Jacques. Life Death (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida) (p. 68). INTRODUCTION “Metaphor” means transporting something from one domain to another, such as when I say “he’s a cold blooded killer” or “she’s boiling mad,” I am transporting descriptions from the physical world … New Blog Series: The Metaphoricity of Metaphor and the Conceptuality of the Concept with Heidegger and Derrida

“a mortal can only start from here, from his mortality.  His possible belief in immortality, his irresistible interest in the beyond, in gods and spirits, what makes survival structure every instant in a kind of irreducible torsion, the torsion of a retrospective anticipation that introduces the untimely moment and the posthumous in the most alive … My Posts on Jacques Derrida’s Interpretation of Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Death: Afterword

(Jacques Derrida, wiki) (Martin Heidegger, wiki) These are my notes for an upcoming study of Heidegger’s Being and Time and Derrida’s response. I focus on philosophy of death and Derrida’s books The Gift of Death, On the Name, and Aporias. Foreword: Of course, most people live their lives “as though” the next moment won’t be … Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger on The Philosophy of Death

Nietzsche argued that early Jews and Greeks were fundamentally “attached to life” and paid little attention to ideas of a personal afterlife or postmortem rewards and punishments. In his 1881 work Daybreak (specifically Section 72), Nietzsche contrasts the early Jewish and Greek mindset with that of Christianity and later mystery religions: Priority of Life over … Jacques Derrida and the Philosophy of Death in Response to Heidegger in “APORIAS” (CONCLUSION)

Derrida notes no context, such as death, “can determine meaning to the point of exhaustiveness (Derrida, 9).”  Derrida connects this to the notion of aporia, a block in the path of appropriation that elicits wonder/thaumazein, something “fascinating/passionne (12)” that causes us to deconstruct and reconstruct our guiding perspective, such as when the beloved traditional definition … Jacques Derrida and the Philosophy of Death in Response to Heidegger in “APORIAS” (Part 4)