PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Deconstruction, Eurocentrism, Martin Heidegger
Thursday, March 31, 2016
PHL217 - Lecture - Derrida
Levinas
-The face of the human is like an image of God? No
•You can’t see the face of God
•The face of God is invisible, it can’t be seen
•Contact with the God is lethal
-The bad, the trace, the effects are visible
-You see God gone in an absolute way
•there is no time in which God was present
-This emptying of the present is Derrida
-What we’re getting here is a claim that the horizon of entities doesn’t just refer back to
a being that is not an entity, but to something which is never present and does not in
that sense make things present
•but it is a trace
•the trace appears in the face of the other person
•this ground of meaning is an unground, it’s always gone
-You can always reduce the trace to some kind of causal trail
•the traces are in the horizon, they are in the culture, they’re always open to this
•there is something else
-it is to be in the place where it questions the realm of the imminent
-that’s where desire with no end has it’s place
Derrida - Ends of Man
-Born and raised in Algeria
-Jewish
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Document Summary
No: you can"t see the face of god, the face of god is invisible, it can"t be seen, contact with the god is lethal. The bad, the trace, the effects are visible. You see god gone in an absolute way: there is no time in which god was present. This emptying of the present is derrida. You can always reduce the trace to some kind of causal trail: the traces are in the horizon, they are in the culture, they"re always open to this, there is something else. It is to be in the place where it questions the realm of the imminent. That"s where desire with no end has it"s place. Disrupted the assumption that speech is the primary mode of communication and writing is secondary: the letter is always written to someone who isn"t there and so stretches through time in a very disturbing way.
