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Single Idea 21932
[filed under theme 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Full Idea
What Derrida calls 'différance' can be understood as the movement through which every sign is 'constituted historically as a weave of differences'....This replacement for 'speech' in the 'origin' of the system is to avoid the circularity in structuralism.
Gist of Idea
'Différance' is the interwoven history of each sign
Source
report of Jacques Derrida (Différance [1982]) by Simon Glendinning - Derrida: A Very Short Introduction 5
Book Ref
Glendinning,Simon: 'Derrida: a Very Short Intro' [OUP 2011], p.63
A Reaction
[compressed] Struggling to grasp this. Some English words entirely change their meaning over time (e.g. buxom). Does the lost meaning remain part of the new meaning? If so, how? He also calls différance 'sameness which is not identical'.
The
38 ideas
from Jacques Derrida
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21932
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'Différance' is the interwoven history of each sign
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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8210
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Deconstructing philosophy gives the history of concepts, and the repressions behind them
[Derrida]
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8211
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The movement of 'différance' is the root of all the oppositional concepts in our language
[Derrida]
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6840
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Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised
[Derrida, by Critchley]
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21936
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A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21937
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Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical?
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21929
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Derrida focuses on ambiguity, but talks of 'dissemination', not traditional multiple meanings
[Derrida]
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8213
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I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process
[Derrida]
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8216
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Deconstruction is not neutral; it intervenes
[Derrida]
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8212
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Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning
[Derrida]
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21931
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'Dissemination' is opposed to polysemia, since that is irreducible, because of multiple understandings
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21885
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Words exist in 'spacing', so meanings are never synchronic except in writing
[Derrida]
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21934
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The idea of being as persistent presence, and meaning as conscious intelligibility, are self-destructive
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21886
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Meanings depend on differences and contrasts
[Derrida]
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21930
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For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language
[Derrida]
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21884
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Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language
[Derrida]
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21935
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The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences
[Derrida]
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21933
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Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent
[Derrida, by Glendinning]
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21881
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We aim to explore the limits of expression (as in Mallarmé's poetry)
[Derrida]
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20925
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Hermeneutics blunts truth, by conforming it to the interpreter
[Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
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20934
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Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference
[Derrida, by Zimmermann,J]
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21895
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Structuralism destroys awareness of dynamic meaning
[Derrida]
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21887
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Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science
[Derrida]
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21888
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Philosophy is just a linguistic display
[Derrida]
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21896
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Philosophy aims to build foundations for thought
[Derrida, by May]
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21892
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Interpretations can be interpreted, so there is no original 'meaning' available
[Derrida]
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21883
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Sincerity can't be verified, so fiction infuses speech, and hence reality also
[Derrida]
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21893
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Philosophy is necessarily metaphorical, and its writing is aesthetic
[Derrida]
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21882
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Sentences are contradictory, as they have opposite meanings in some contexts
[Derrida]
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4756
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Derrida says that all truth-talk is merely metaphor
[Derrida, by Engel]
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21877
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True thoughts are inaccessible, in the subconscious, prior to speech or writing
[Derrida]
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21889
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'I' is the perfect name, because it denotes without description
[Derrida]
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21878
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Names have a subjective aspect, especially the role of our own name
[Derrida]
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21879
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Even Kripke can't explain names; the word is the thing, and the thing is the word
[Derrida]
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21894
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Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language
[Derrida]
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21891
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The good is implicitly violent (against evil), so there is no pure good
[Derrida]
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21890
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Heidegger showed that passing time is the key to consciousness
[Derrida]
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21880
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'Tacit theory' controls our thinking (which is why Freud is important)
[Derrida]
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