Jacques Derrida | Nicholas Royle

[Socrates]

Here is a pdf @"thetrizzard" shared via PM:

http://www.unm.edu/~ithomson/Thomson.pdf

Also, this was an interesting read-

http://www.academia.edu/1738235/Lectures_on_Derridas_Violence_and_Metaphysics_2016

[atreestump]

In regards to 'the secret' - the word 'secretion' has many similarities to Derrida's description of language.

Secret- means 'moved apart'. Other meanings are akin to emanation, leakage, ooze, production and leaching - after all, deconstruction is parasitic and like an earth quake.

[thetrizzard]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1BAMctIPO-w

I've decided not to end it there with the (Routledge Critical Thinkers) book on Derrida, I'm now reading 'A Companion to Derrida' edited by Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor (2014), which is the most intellectually up-to-date book on Derrida's work available....in this book there is an excellent essay by John D. Caputo called 'Derrida and the Trace of Religion'....I have have been aware of Caputo's work for a while and I think this may help those members of the forum that want to deepen their introductory understanding of Derrida.

[Socrates]

I have a copy of that too, I will read that one essay and get on Lacan.

[thetrizzard]

Also look at the Chapter entitled 'Play and Messianicity' before you move on to Lacan

[atreestump]

Also look at the Chapter entitled 'Play and Messianicity' before you move on to Lacan


Will do.

[thetrizzard]

I highly recommend the John D. Caputo lecture on YouTube

[Socrates]

I highly recommend the John D. Caputo lecture on YouTube

 Going to watch it when I get in.

Although this thread has not (as of yet) revealed anything mindblowing, it has been a great team effort of sharing links and resources, little pointers here and there.

I think we should keep to this kind of method, reading an assigned book per thread.

If you want to, you can open up a new thread for the companion book in the reading area section. I will definitely commit to it if I am reading it with someone else.

[thetrizzard]

I agree, nothing mind blowing as yet but to be fair, it takes a while to get a grasp of the terrain and the concepts employed that map out that terrain. However, reading prepares the ground from which insight flourishes, and although there are areas covered in the Routledge book that I am unfamiliar with, the Caputo essay and lecture (together) has for me build on previous knowledge and helped elucidated some of the unfamiliar concepts covered in the routledge book...Caputo (in the lecture) has a knack for putting post-structuralism into its intellectual context and why it disagrees with the claims of the structuralists ....Caputo's essay inparticular is good for fleshing out Derrida's importance in a number of fields / disciplines....his repeated reference of 'the impossible' is explained and it's good for understanding Derrida's reference to Deconstruction's in relation to that which is 'to-come'...also excellent for explaining Differance as a transcendental field (from which all forms are conditioned or constructed)...which when understood (if only partially) IS mind blowing....read the essay before listening to the lecture and let me know how you get on.[hr]It seems to me that this idea of Chaosmos from James Joyce referred to by Derrida, has Dialectical Monist overtones

[atreestump]

It seems to me that this idea of Chaosmos from James Joyce referred to by Derrida, has Dialectical Monist overtones



Is that in the essay in the Companion?

I have opened a dedeicated thread for that fyi: https://ontic-philosophy.com/Thread-Zeynep-Direk-Companion-to-Derrida