[lit-ideas] Re: Derrideana
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:15:54 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/26/2013 8:25:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes in his "The difference" post:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/mar/25/derrida-excluded-favorite/
The following is quoted from Derrida in the above review of a biography of
Derrida:
“He traced this impulse in thinkers from Aristotle to Heidegger, famously
arguing, for example, that a tendency to favor the immediacy of speech over
the remoteness of writing was untenable. (Aristotle’s formulation: “
Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience and written words are the
symbols of spoken words.”) Through a series of deft and delicate maneuvers,
Derrida sought to show that speech is inextricable from writing, no more or
less authentic.""
The issue is whether we agree.
I never liked Aristotle much __on that_. It's the famous locus classicus in
"De interpretatione". I think he uses 'phantasma' along the way. Rather
than Heidegger, I would quote from Locke, who would say that spoken words
IMMEDIATELY signify ideas and mediately signify things. I forget what Locke
(if anything) said about SPOKEN words, but his Book III is indeed entitled,
"The Way of Words".
I wouldn't know about ALL languages, but it would be good to trace the
'phonic' vs. 'graphic' distinction (or
"différance" as it applies to Indo-Germanic, or Indo-European (as you may
prefer).
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The reviewer, above, in the references to "deft and delicate" Derridean
manoeuvres may be aiming at an implicature, or not.
I actually like Derrida's neologisms, if that's what they are. "Différance"
being a good one, full of implicatures.
Cheers,
Speranza
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From wiki:
Différance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida, deliberately
homophonous with the word "différence". Différance plays on the fact that the
French word différer means both "to defer" and "to differ."
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