Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written

ISBN-13: 9783030056919 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 297 str.

Dror Pimentel; Nessa Olshansky-Ashtar

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Chapter One--Introduction: The question of writing

 

Chapter Two: Being proper

1        Presence: the primordial scene

i          The sway of presence

ii        Reification and contamination

iii      Dike: the order prior to order

2        The face and the mask

3        Heideggerian hope

 

Chapter Three: Representation and its limits

1        The gaze

i          Gazing visibility: gods and Being

ii        Gazing humanly

iii      The origin of sight

iv      The hierarchy of gazes: from divine to animal

v        The gaze as encounter and conquest

2        Representation and limitation

i          Descartes’ cogito

a.       That which is represented

b.      That which represents

c.       Being as representedness

ii        Protagoras’ metron

iii      Heidegger’s mindfulness

3        Limited and unlimited Being

 

Chapter Four: The dangers of writing

1        Logocentrism and metaphysics

i          The debasement of writing

ii        Voice and origin

2        Soul writing: Rousseau and Plato

3        The ontology of writing

 

Chapter Five: Presence under erasure

1        The ethics of contamination

2        From arche-writing to arche-castration

 

Chapter Six: The politics of writing

1        Writing and the polis of discourse

2        Writing and the discourse of the polis

3        Keeping the outside outside

4        Political dwelling

 

Chapter Seven: Being written

1        Being’s voiceless voice

2        The handling hand

3        The pointing word

4        Hand/machine writing

5        Gaze-writing

6        What is called writing?

7        Being gifted

 

Chapter Eight: Writing and the politics of race

1        Dispirited intelligence

2        The hot flame of spirit

i      The spirited and the spiritual

ii        Spirit and race

3        Inside: the spirit-restoring race

4        Outside: the writing animal

5        From logocentrism to Nazism

 

Chapter Nine: Derrida's avoidance

1        The ghost of Geist

2        Spirit on the double

3        Under the Black Forest trees

 

Chapter Ten--Conclusion: The ghost of metaphysics

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Dror Pimentel teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. His publications include: The Dream of Purity: Heidegger with Derrida (2009 [Hebrew]); Aesthetics (2014 [Hebrew]), and articles in Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly; Heidegger Studies; British Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology; Performance Philosophy Journal, among others. He recently translated  Heidegger’s "Letter on Humanism” (2018) to Hebrew.

Blurb

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing. The book offers a detailed account of Derrida's arguments about the debasement of writing, an account that leads to a new definition of writing, conceiving it epistemically, rather than linguistically. Heidegger's analysis of the gaze and critique of the modern subject are shown to have logocentric features. This surprising conclusion entails that Heidegger is well within the metaphysical tradition, which he labored so intently to overcome. The book sheds new light on the philosophical roots of Heidegger’s involvement with Nazism, arguing that his hierarchical thinking--the hallmark of logocentrism and metaphysics—condones violent differentiation between the ‘proper’ race and the Other.