Reason Unbound: Toward A Re-Grounding The Metaphysical Foundations Of The University

Educational Theory

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 395-409

  Trifonas, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84862616056     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1998.00395.x     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Jacques Derrida, "The Principle of Reason: The University in. the Eyes of Its Pupils," Diacritics 13, no. 3 (Fall 1983): 9. This essay will be cited as PR in the text for all subsequent references.
2. John D. Caputo, Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition. Deconstruct ion, and the Hermeneutic Project (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), 231.
3. See Jacques Derrida, "Languages and Institutions of Philosophy," trans. Sylvia Söderlind, Rebecca Comay, Barbara Havercroft, and Joseph Adamson, Recherches Semiotique/Semiotic Inquiry 4, no. 2 (1984): 91-154.
4. Martin Heidegger, The Principle of Reason, trans. Reginald Lilly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), 119.
5. See Jacques Derrida, "Sending: On Representation," trans. Peter Caws and Mary Ann Caws, Social Research 49, no. 2 (1982): 295-326
6. See Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology arid Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1977).
7. Derrida, "Sending: On Representation," 307.
8. See Heidegger, The Principle of Reason.
9. See Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology.
10. Derrida, "Sending: On Representation," 304.
11. For the two "types" of deconstructive approaches - the one following the trails of an idea or concept, the other using a text as a springboard to reading and writing - and the "whole subjecial axiomatic of responsibility
12. see Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority,'" trans. Mary Quaintance, in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, ed. Drucilla Cornell, Michael Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson (New York: Routledge, 1992), 25.
13. See Martin Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking, trans. John M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund (New York: Harper and Row, 1966).
14. See Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology.
15. See Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking.
16. See Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstader (New York: Harper Colophon Book, 1971).
17. Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking, 65.
18. On this aspect of Gelassenheit, see Jacques Derrida, "Heidegger's Ear: Philopolemology [Geschlecht IV)," trans. John P. Leavey, Jr., in Reading Heidegger: Commemorations, ed. John Sallis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993) 163-218.
19. Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking, 55.
20. Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought.
21. Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology.
22. Christopher Norris, Derrida (Great Britain: Fontana Press, 1987), 160.
23. The preference Richard Rorty has for John Dewey is stated in The Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), 46: "To lump Dewey with Peiree, James, and Quine is to forget that he was swept off his feet, and into a new intellectual world, by Hegel's and Compte's visions of our past."
24. See Derrida, "Force of Law."
25. See Jacques Derrida, "Mochlos; or, The Conflict of the Faculties," trans. Richard Rand and Amy Wygant, in Logomachia: The Conflict of the Faculties, ed. Richard Rand (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), 1-34.
26. See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Lewis White Beck (New York: Macmillan, 1956) and Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties/Der Streit der Fakultäten, trans. Mary J. Gregor (New York: Abaris Books, 1979).
27. See Derrida "Mochlos."
28. Jacques Derrida, Du Droit a la Philosophic (Paris: Galilee, 1990), 88 (translation is my own).
29. Heidegger, The Principle of Reason. 24. Also included in a slightly different translation in a footnote to Derrida's text of the same title.
30. Derrida, "Languages and Institutions of Philosophy," 134.
31. See the comments on ghosts, specters, apparitions, and so on in Jacques Derrida, "Passions: An Oblique Offering," trans. David Wood, in Derrida: A Critical Reader; ed. David Wood (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992), 5-35.
32. This is an on-running theme that appears in other of Derrida's texts such as The Gift of Death, trans. David Wills (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), "The Force of Law," and Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994).
33. Jacques Derrida, On the Name, trans. David Wood, John P. Leavey, Jr., and Ian McLeod, ed. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), 93.
34. The semiotic facet of the khora as an aspect of the theory of poetic language and the psychoanalytic drives of the subject is found in Julia Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language, trans. Margaret Waller (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978).
35. See the chapter entitled "Mnemosyne" in Jacques Derrida, Memoires for Paul de Man, trans. Cecilia Lindsay, Jonathan Culler, and Eduardo Cavava (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).
36. See Jacques Derrida, "Sendoffs," trans. Thomas Pepper, Yale French Studies 77 (1990): 7-43.
37. On guarding against the translation of skepticism to mystagogy see Jacques Derrida, "On a Newly Arisen Apocalytic Tone in Philosophy," trans. John P. Leavey, Jr., in Raising the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Immanuel Kant, Transformative Critique by Jacques Derrida, ed. Peter Fenves (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 117-71.
38. Derrida, "Languages and Institutions of Philosophy," 132.
39. See Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Hussed's Theory of Signs, trans. David B. Allison (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973).
40. See Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
41. See Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
42. Derrida, "Mochlos," 3 (translation has been modified, my emphasis.).
43. One aspect of logos, from legein (to say), is that to which the Word is sent back to as a representation of the life-world, its roots being in apophainesihai, "to bring forward into appearance."
44. See Jacques Derrida, "Sending."
45. And, in fact, we can follow the trail that leads from the transformation of the pre-Socratic notion of Being as physis and aletheia into the conception of Being as eidos and idea from Plato to Being as humanity's idea to technology.
46. See Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology for the discussion of technology as a mode of alethevein, revealing-the essence of technology being nothing "technological" but poietic.
47. Derrida, "Sending," 317.
48. Martin Heidegger, "Letteron Humanism," trans. David Farrell Krell, in Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: HarperCollins, 1977), 193-242.
49. See Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology.
50. See Heidegger, Principle of Reason, chaps.5 and 6.
51. See Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties.
52. See Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Boston: Martinus Nijoff Publishers, 1979).
53. See Derrida, Du Droit a la Philosophie, especially 99-100.
54. See Jürgen Habermas, "The Idea of the University-Learning Processes," trans. John R. Blazek, New German Critique 41 (Spring-Summer 1987): 3-22.
55. Derrida, "Mochlos," 3.