Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida

225 Pages·1994·5.003 MB·English

by  John Sallis

Deconstruction and Philosophy

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Deconstruction
and Philosophy
The Texts of
Jacques Derrida
Edited by John Sallis
The University of Chicago Press • Chicago and London
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1987 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 1987
Paperback edition 1988
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Deconstruction and philosophy.
Papers presented at the international conference
held at Loyola University of Chicago, Mar. 22-23, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Deconstruction—Congresses. 2. Derrida,
Jacques—Congresses. I. Sallis, John, 1938—
B809.6.D43 1987 149 86-19236
ISBN 0-226-73438-2
ISBN 0-226-73439-0 (pbk.)
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Note on Translations ix
Introduction xvi
Deconstruction and the Inscription of Philosophy
1. Infrastructures and Systematicity 3
Rodolphe Gasche
2. Philosophy Has Its Reasons ... 21
Hugh J. Silverman
3. Destinerrance: The Apotropocalyptics of
Translation . 33
John P. Leavey, Jr.
Deconstruction and the History of Metaphysics
4. In Stalling Metaphysics: At the Threshold 47
Ruben Berezdivin
5. Doubling the Space of Existence: Exemplarity in
Derrida—the Case of Rousseau 60
Irene E. Harvey
Contents
6. Regulations: Kant and Derrida at the End of
Metaphysics 71
Stephen Watson
7. A Point of Almost Absolute Proximity to Hegel 87
John Llewelyn
Deconstruction and Phenomenology
8. The Economy of Signs in Husserl and Derrida: From
Uselessness to Full Employment 99
JohnD. Caputo
9. The Perfect Future: A Note on Heidegger and
Derrida 114
David Farrell Krell
10.Deconstruction and the Possibility of Ethics 122
Robert Bernasconi
Deconstruction—in Withdrawal?
11. Following Derrida 143
David Wood
12. Geschlecht II: Heidegger’s Hand 161
Jacques Derrida
Notes on Contributors 197

Acknowledgments
The papers collected here were presented at the international con­
ference “Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Der­
rida” held at Loyola University of Chicago on March 22—23, 1985. I
would like to thank all those at Loyola University who helped make the
event possible: first of all, Francis Catania, Dean of the Graduate
School, also Fr. Lawrence Biondi, Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, as well as my colleagues Thomas Sheehan and John Bannan.
I owe thanks also to the Mellon Foundation, which provided financial
support for the conference.
My thanks especially to those who spoke at the conference. Most
of all, I am grateful to Jacques Derrida for his generous and unstinting
participation in the conference.
John Sallis