Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823290284.003.0003
J. Derrida
This chapter discusses the idea of deconstruction in a nutshell. The very meaning and mission of deconstruction is to show that things do not have definable meanings and determinable missions, that they are always more than any mission would impose, and that they exceed the boundaries they currently occupy. A “meaning” or a “mission” is a way to contain and compact things, like a nutshell, gathering them into a unity, whereas deconstruction bends all its efforts to stretch beyond these boundaries, to transgress confines, to interrupt and disjoin all such gathering. Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell, the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility. The thrust of each of the questions put to Jacques Derrida in the “Roundtable” was to press him about the relevance of deconstruction to the most traditional values of institution, tradition, community, justice, and religion. Ultimately, Derrida was eloquent about the place of deconstruction at the heart of the most time-honored institutions.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.1515/9780823290680-011
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Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823290284.003.0004
J. Derrida
This chapter examines how philosophy for Jacques Derrida is one of the most fundamental rights. However, rights come after responsibility. The work of deconstruction is set in motion, engaged only by a pledge of responsibility. This sense of responsibility being well understood, one may say that deconstruction reserves the right to ask any questions, to think any thought, to wonder aloud about any improbability, and to impugn the veracity of any of the most venerable verities. That seemingly self-righteous, even legalistic characterization does not mean that deconstruction takes itself to be the master and judge of all it surveys. Whenever deconstruction seems to cause or get itself into trouble — or even to look a little negative and destructive — one must remember that deconstruction is being very responsible and affirmative, indeed that deconstruction is affirmation, responsibility, and engagement, which are the touchstones of a new Enlightenment.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.1515/9780823290680-012
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This chapter claims that deconstruction is hanging on by a prayer. Deconstruction is a way of hanging on by a prayer, a way of hanging on to a prayer. Amen is not the end of deconstruction's prayer but its beginning and sustaining middle, something that precedes and follows and constantly accompanies all its works and days. The chapter then describes how Jacques Derrida has said that one can be flexible on the point of putting deconstruction in a nutshell and occasionally interrupt or transgress the absolute prohibition against nutshells. As Derrida says in the “Roundtable,” “sometimes it is not a bad thing.”
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Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.1515/9780823290680-009
{"title":"4. Community Without Community","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823290680-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290680-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":266834,"journal":{"name":"Deconstruction in a Nutshell","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125838628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.1515/9780823290680-004
J. Caputo
{"title":"Introduction (2020) Specters of Derrida","authors":"J. Caputo","doi":"10.1515/9780823290680-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290680-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":266834,"journal":{"name":"Deconstruction in a Nutshell","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122666072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter investigates how postmodern difference, the difference that interests Jacques Derrida, is deeply multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-racial. It represents what can be called a highly miscegenated “polymorphism.” Derrida does not dismiss the idea of unity and identity out of hand, for “pure” diversity would spell death no less surely than would a “pure” totalitarian unity. But he advocates highly heterogenous, porous, self-differentiating quasi-identities, unstable identities that are not identical with themselves, that do not close over and form a seamless web of the selfsame. What Derrida advocates, in a nutshell, is “democracy.” That is why he is troubled by the word “community.” What he does not like about the word “community” is its connotations of “fusion” and “identification.” The self-protective closure of “community” would be just about the opposite of what deconstruction is.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.1515/9780823290680-008
{"title":"3. Khôra: Being Serious with Plato","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823290680-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290680-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":266834,"journal":{"name":"Deconstruction in a Nutshell","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124763738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-03DOI: 10.1515/9780823290680-fm
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823290680-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290680-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":266834,"journal":{"name":"Deconstruction in a Nutshell","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123730031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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