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THE PHILOSOPHY AS A KIND OF WRITING — AN ESSAY ON DERRIDA

Author(s): Richard Rorty
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Pragmatism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine

Summary/Abstract: In this essay, Rorty regards philosophy as a development and mutual relation of two philosophic traditions: Kantian and dialectic (Hegelian). The former deals with the relation of the presentation and the presented, and of all the implicationos arising herewith, attempting to approach philosophy to a scientific model, as much as possible. The latter tradition comprehends philosophy as a kind of writing — a succession of infinite reinterpretations of thinkers included in »philosophy« on the basis of intuition rather than on rational principles. Derrida as the most distinguished current representative of dialectic tradition intensifies the old conflict and endeavours to advocate priority of writing by the destruction of »metaphysical presence« from the tradition of Heidegger’s destruction of Western metaphysics and at the same time avoid submission to metaphysics or epistemology in its contemporary aspect-the philosophy of language.

  • Issue Year: 1987
  • Issue No: 05+06
  • Page Range: 50-65
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bosnian