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portada Heidegger: The Question of Being and History (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780226678924

Heidegger: The Question of Being and History (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida)

Jacques Derrida (Author) · University Of Chicago Press · Paperback

Heidegger: The Question of Being and History (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida) - Jacques Derrida

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Synopsis "Heidegger: The Question of Being and History (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida) "

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida’s first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the École Normale Supérieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms with the German philosopher and his magnum opus, Being and Time. They provide not only crucial insight into the gestation of some of Derrida’s primary conceptual concerns—indeed, it is here that he first uses, with some hesitation, the word “deconstruction”—but an analysis of Being and Time that is of extraordinary value to readers of Heidegger or anyone interested in modern philosophy.             Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of the notoriously difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with patient rigor and acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of Heidegger’s prose. At this time in intellectual history, Heidegger was still somewhat unfamiliar to French readers, and Being and Time had only been partially translated into French. Here Derrida mostly uses his own translations, giving his own reading of Heidegger that directly challenges the French existential reception initiated earlier by Sartre. He focuses especially on Heidegger’s Destruktion (which Derrida would translate both into “solicitation” and “deconstruction”) of the history of ontology, and indeed of ontology as such, concentrating on passages that call for a rethinking of the place of history in the question of being, and developing a radical account of the place of metaphoricity in Heidegger’s thinking.             This is a rare window onto Derrida’s formative years, and in it we can already see the philosopher we’ve come to recognize—one characterized by a bravura of exegesis and an inventiveness of thought that are particularly and singularly his. 
Jacques Derrida
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Jacques Derrida nació el 15 de julio de 1930 en El Biar, Argelia, y murió el 8 de octubre de 2004 en París, Francia. Proveniente de una familia judía sefardí en el contexto del colonialismo francés, su infancia estuvo marcada por acontecimientos que influirían en su sensibilidad filosófica: entre ellos, la experiencia de ser excluido de su liceo en 1942 debido a decretos antijudíos del régimen de Vichy. Posteriormente se trasladó a París para formarse en filosofía, y tras ejercer la enseñanza en la Sorbona y en la École Normale Supérieure, se consolidó como uno de los más influyentes filósofos del siglo XX.

Derrida es sobretodo conocido por haber desarrollado la filosofía de la deconstrucción, un método crítico que analiza cómo los textos, discursos o sistemas de pensamiento contienen oposiciones jerárquicas implícitas (como presencia/ausencia, palabra/escritura, naturaleza/cultura) y muestra cómo esas oposiciones pueden desplazarse o derrumbarse. Su trabajo influyó profundamente en áreas como filosofía, teoría literaria, lingüística, derecho, arquitectura y estudios culturales, sirviendo para cuestionar los fundamentos de la metafísica occidental.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967) y Margins of Philosophy (1972). A lo largo de su vida académica, abordó temas como la escritura, la diferencia, la presencia, la identidad, la justicia, la memoria y la alteridad. Su estilo, complejo y frecuentemente polémico, generó tanto adhesiones como críticas intensas. Derrida deja un legado que sigue vivo en múltiples disciplinas, movilizando el pensamiento en torno a la apertura, el otro y el procedimiento crítico.
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