[analytic-borders] What is mad to deny
ggos...@aol.com
In a message dated 8/3/03 12:52:51 PM, blro...@yahoo.com writes:
Gary wrote:
>> I am going to focus on why Derrida believes that
>> there is a text we can't get beyond.
Bruce didn't reply to this comment, but I bumble
along. Here are two quotes from Margolis that may shed
some light.
"The largest, perhaps the most comprehensive, difference
(actually more than a difference, a genuine opposition) between
Wittgenstein and Derrida is this: Derrida insists on the radically
metaphorical nature of language, in the Nietzschean sense, and
Wittgenstein insists on natural languages as socially viable
forms . . . that, in effect, preclude the subversive possibilities of the
Nietzschean notion. In this sense, Derrida is the arch-skeptic . . .
and Wittgenstein the arch-foe of the arch-skeptic."
Margolis adds: "Derrida set an impossible cognitive condition as
the sine qua non of intelligibility; Wittgenstein treats cognition
itself as tempered and tested by a more fundamental -- never explicit
nor even explicable -- reliance on the conditions of social
survival. Derrida postulates an "originary" origin, which (correctly)
he denies we can discover; Wittgenstein repudiates the entire question of
origins in order to celebrate the needlessness of mystifying the
condition into which we have clearly emerged. This is the sense in which
Derrida has confused (perhaps deliberately) the false realism of
a completely transparent metaphysics with the mundane realism
of actually functioning societies which it would be merely mad
to deny."
But back to my original question. What does Derrida
(arch skeptic)) tells us about why he believes that
there is a text?
Best,
Gary
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concerning a great speckled bird. . . .
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