The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of ReflectionDeconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror (tain names the tinfoil, or lusterless back of the mirror) explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible. Rodolphe Gasché does what no one has done before in many discussions of Derrida, namely to tie his work in an authoritative way to its origins in the history of the criticism of reflexivity. |
Contents
Defining Reflection | 13 |
The Philosophy of Reflection | 23 |
The SelfDestruction of Reflection | 35 |
Identity Totality and Mystic Rapture | 55 |
The Interlacings of Heterology | 79 |
Abbau Destruktion Deconstruction | 109 |
Deconstructive Methodology | 121 |
A System beyond Being | 177 |
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Literature in Parentheses | 255 |
The Inscription of Universality | 271 |
Notes | 321 |
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A. V. Miller absolute reflection analogy aporias appears arche-trace arche-writing Aristotle articulation auto-affection becomes called concept condition of possibility constitutive contradiction critique Dasein deconstruction Derrida determination dialectical difference discourse of philosophy double Edmund Husserl empirical essence exteriority Flach formal function fundamental Grammatology ground Hegel Heidegger's heterogeneous heterology Husserl ideal identity infrastructures inscribed inscription insofar intuition irreducible iterability Jacques Derrida Kant limits literary criticism literature logic logocentrism logos mark Martin Heidegger meaning metaphor metaphysics mode negative notion object ontological opposition origin originary duplication ousias phenomenology Phenomenology of Spirit philosophical discourse philosophical reflection Plato plenitude plurality position precisely predicates presence presupposes principle problem proposition pure question radical re-mark reason reference reflexivity relation repetition self-consciousness self-presence self-reflection semantic sense signified simply space speculative structure sublation supplement supplementarity syntactic synthesis systematic textual thematic thought tion totality trace traditional trans transcendental tropes truth undecidable understanding unity University writing