Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs

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Northwestern University Press, 1973 - Philosophy - 166 pages
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In Speech and Phenomena, Jacques Derrida situates the philosophy of language in relation to logic and rhetoric, which have often been seen as irreconcilable criteria for the use and interpretations of signs. His critique of Husserl attacks the position that language is founded on logic rather than on rhetoric; instead, he claims, meaningful language is limited to expression because expression alone conveys sense. Derrida's larger project is to confront phenomenology with the tradition it has so often renounced--the tradition of Western metaphysics.
 

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Contents

Introduction to the Problem of Signs
1
A Note on the Phenomenology
107
Differance
129
Index of Passages Cited from Husserl
161
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according actual already appears aspect basis becomes Bedeutung beginning belongs body bring called character communication complete conceived concept concerning consciousness consider constituted continually Derrida determined difference discourse distinction effect element empirical essence essential example existence experience expression fact formal function gives hand Husserl ideal Ideas identity imagination immediately important indication infinite intention interpretation intuition kind knowledge language later limit linguistic living logical longer meaning mental metaphor metaphysics movement nature never object opens operation origin perception perhaps person phenomenology philosophy physical play possibility present primordial principle problem produced pure question reasons recognize reduction reference relation remains repetition represent representation respect seems self-presence sense signifier simple sound space speaking speech sphere stratum structure temporal theme theory thing thought tion trace tradition transcendental translation truth understand unity voice wants whole writing

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About the author (1973)

Jacques Derrida was born in El-Biar, Algeria on July 15, 1930. He graduated from the École Normal Supérieure in 1956. He taught philosophy and logic at both the University of Paris and the École Normal Supérieure for around 30 years. His works of philosophy and linguistics form the basis of the school of criticism known as deconstruction. This theory states that language is an inadequate method to give an unambiguous definition of a work, as the meaning of text can differ depending on reader, time, and context. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books on various aspects of deconstruction including Of Grammatology, Glas, The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, and Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce. He died of pancreatic cancer on October 9, 2004 at the age of 74.

David B. Allison is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology "The New Nietzsche.

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TitleSpeech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs
Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
AuthorJacques Derrida
Translated byDavid B. Allison
ContributorsDavid B. Allison, Newton Garver
Editionreprint
PublisherNorthwestern University Press, 1973
ISBN081010590X, 9780810105904
Length166 pages
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Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology
  
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