Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration
David Appelbaum
Language: English
Pages: 166
ISBN: 0791476081
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In Jacques Derrida s Ghost, David Appelbaum explores three of Derrida s favorite themes: the other, death, and the work of mourning. He shows how Derrida s unique philosophy, mindful of ghosts, proposes a respectful attitude toward otherness whether the other be corporeal or indeed phantom. Taking up Derrida s concern with performative ethics, Appelbaum examines the possibility of such an ethics of subjectivity within the context of performance."
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Used in its deconstructed sense to designate something other which resembles it, and of which it is, as it were, the metaphysical ghost, the spirit of another spirit.”8 When Heidegger writes of Augustine’s, Descartes’, or Dilthey’s spiritual concepts, symptoms appear to stigmatize the wound. But denying the susceptibility, he fails to hear the ghost voice in his own writing. It speaks anyway. (“Thou art a scholar. Speak to it.”) The specter is called and then is conjured away by a master.
The ‘other’ side. Doesn’t the lesson derive from there? A natural (if grave) misunderstanding, that the secret lies over there, beyond the limit, across the border. It is clearer, however, that the gift is the gift of ‘death,’ now enclosed in spectral quotation marks. The gift gives ‘death’ a new significance, a new apprehension, a new experience to apprehend. The trembling before the other, the ‘I’ that trembles before the other, is at the same time caught up in another secret, given with the.
Passion to go straight to the other where there is no going. The mute ‘a’ is a passage to différance by way of a scandal’s ‘mute irony.’ The fact is that a lacuna exists in Saussure’s account of meaning, and you exemplify it by a unique and singular signifier, one that lacks all signifieds, transcendental or otherwise. Does the concealment have to do with deferred obedience? That which would be signified cannot be; due to the lack of phonic differentiation between the words difference and.
[there-being]) as voice. But vociferation—the giving of voice—is a ghost performance that refuses clarity and distinctness, revels in equivocity, and trembles in the intermittent seizure of owning itself qua itself. A correspondence with the tremor of the mysterium dwells in the ambiguity in the writing and with it an apprehension: fright at the ghost of voice. Put in writing, the phantom is inherently frightening; fright constitutes the basis of an avoidance whose deference requires a lengthy.
Refuge but also an exile, a solitary confinement, ‘on death row.’ There, it learns that the deferred is in truth the mark of death, whether in writing as buffered (spacing) or postponed, perhaps retrograde (timing). The written text, therefore, must include an apparition that is homeopathically effective in warding off the death phantom. That which creates the scene is necessarily mute. To conjure death away, as the saw goes, “As long as there are ghosts, there is no death.” All the same, it must.