Discover interesting quotes and translate them. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible. Jacques Derrida. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. Everything, beginning with time, seems out of kilter, unjust, dis-adjusted. What is happening is happening to age itself, it strikes a blow at the teleological order of history. The world has more than one age. Something else. ', and 'Monsters cannot be announced. Jacques Derrida (15 July 1930 – 8 October 2004) was a French literary critic and philosopher who introduced the practice of "deconstruction". Theater and Difference: Derrida and the Scene of Writing (Papers in Romance VI, 1, Spring 1989) One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets.“, „I speak only one language, and it is not my own.“, „No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this 'relation,' precisely, which is yours.“, „Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. The world has more than one age. His work still has a major influence in the academe of continental Europe, South America and all other countries where "continental philosophy" has been predominant, particularly in debates around ontology, epistemology , ethics, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of language. During his career Derrida published more than 40 books, together with hundreds of essays and public presentations. We no longer realize the wear, we no longer take account of it as of a single age in the progress of history. He also influenced architecture , music, art, and art criticism. The world has more than one age. Neither maturation, nor crisis, nor even agony. by … One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets. Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other small Seismisms, The States of Theory, ed. We are given over to absolute solitude. A concept introduced by Derrida, differance is a pun on “difference” and “deferment”, and is that attribute of language, by which meaning is generated because of a word’s difference from other words in a signifying system, and at the same time, meaning is inevitably and infinitely deferred or postponed, is constantly under erasure and can be glimpsed only through “aporias” or deadlocks in … I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. The world is going very badly, it wears as it grows“, „What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.“, „To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.“, „I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.“, „The history of metaphysics, like the history of the West, is the history of these metaphors and metonymies. il n'y a pas de hors-texte. Writing in the common sense is the dead letter, it is the carrier of death. Some critics consider Speech and Phenomena to be his most important work. „The age is off its hinges. What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. The world is going badly. We lack the measure of the measure. No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with … Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. Beautiful quotes.Share your passion for quotes. Some critics consider Speech and Phenomena to be his most important work. Jacques Derrida. He became a well-known and influential public figure, while his approach to philosophy and the notorious difficulty of his work made him controversial. All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs, then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down. Others cite Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, and Margins of Philosophy. These writings influenced various activists and political movements. Jacques Derrida’s most popular book is Writing and Difference. Others cite Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, and Margins of Philosophy. Montaigne. David Carroll, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. 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