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Derridov obrat k františkánskej filozofii
Derrida’s Turn to Franciscan Philosophy

Author(s): Mark Zlomislić
Contributor(s): Ladislav Tkáčik (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Metaphysics, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Published by: Vydavateľstvo Minor, Kapucíni na Slovensku
Keywords: Jacques Derrida; franciscan philosophy; Gerard Manley Hopkins; haecceitas;

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines Derrida’s turn to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and how such a turn may place Derrida within a catholic and Franciscan tradition. The Franciscan philosophers: Bonaventure, Scotus and Ockham became nominalists in order to safeguard each single individual from the power of totalization. Following the Franciscans, Hopkins was also inspired to find a new significance of singularity. The inscape for him bears the stamp of the divine. And Derrida re-writes Scotus’ doctrine of „this-ness“ into the formula, „to be is to be strange“.

  • Issue Year: 7/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 34-48
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak