Di Blasi, Luca (2007). Grammatheologie. Eine kultur- und medientheoretische Lektüre. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 55(5), pp. 717-733. Akademie Verlag GmbH
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To a far greater extent than has hitherto been assumed, Derrida’s "Of Grammatology" is motivated by Jewish impulses and has to be understand in the light of these. It presents a reaction to media developments (“the end of writing”, “the death of the book”), which at that time in particular could have been perceived as threatening in the eyes of especially the Jewish “race born of the book” (an expression by Edmond Jabès, quoted by Derrida different times). Derrida associated this threat with the Christian West and responded with one could call a pre-emptive defense. The objective of his "Of Grammatology" was to launch a media-philosophical criticism of metaphysics and an attack on a West, from which Jewry was exempted and by which, indeed, it could be strengthened. For long stretches of his book, Derrida believed he could achieve both of these through his distinction between “arche-writing” and “phonetic writing”. The polysemy of the underlying term phoné made a close coupling of phonetic writing and the Greco-Latin vowel alphabet, and thus of phonocentrism and the West, seem tantalizingly possible. Towards the end of the book, this distinction lost that particular imprecise quality that had allowed Derrida to draw such far-reaching cultural, philosophical and implicitly also religious conclusions. Instead of disclosing this as a failure, however, Derrida opted for undecidability.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Systematic Theology 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Systematic Theology > Dogmatics and Philosophy of Religion |
UniBE Contributor: |
Di Blasi, Luca Daniele |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy 200 Religion > 210 Philosophy & theory of religion |
ISSN: |
0012-1045 |
Publisher: |
Akademie Verlag GmbH |
Language: |
German |
Submitter: |
Luca Daniele Di Blasi |
Date Deposited: |
04 May 2022 14:04 |
Last Modified: |
15 Jun 2023 10:31 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida & Deconstruction, Derrida and Religion, Post-structuralism (especially the work of Jacques Derrida), Derrida Medientheorie Kulturphilosophie, Media theory and Research, Medienphilosophie |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/169162 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/169162 |
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