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Unit 8: Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’—Jacques Derrida: Detailed Study

8.6 Key-Words Notes

1. Ousia : Essence/being
2. Aletheia : Truth
3. Transcendentality : The realm of (for Kant) the conditions of possible experience and
knowing.
4. Physis : Nature
5. Nomos : Law [culture]

8.7 Review Questions

1. Discuss Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign and Play in the Human Scienses.
2. What are the key concepts of treated in Derrida’s essays?
3. What is bricolage? What is its Mythopoetical Virtue?
4. What has led to the rupture of the type of discourse? What replaces it?
Answers: Self-Assessment
1. (i)(a) (ii)(c) (iii)(a) (iv)(b)
8.8 Further Readings

1. Acts of Literature, ed. Attridge, New York: Routledge, 1992 (AL).
2. Adieu to Emmanuel Lévinas, trans. Brault & Naas, Stanford, California: Stanford
University Press, 1999 (AEL).
3. Circumfessions: Fifty Nine Periphrases, in Bennington, G., Jacques Derrida,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993 (Circ).
4. On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, London: Routledge, 2001 (OCF).
5. Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, (inc. "Force of the Law"), eds. Cornell,
Carlson, & Benjamin, New York: Routledge, 1992 (DPJ).
6. Dissemination, trans. Johnson, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981 (D).
7. "Eating Well' or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview with Jacques Derrida"
in Who Comes After the Subject? eds. Cadava, Connor, & Nancy, New York:
Routledge, 1991, p 96-119.
8. The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation, trans. Kamuf,
ed. McDonald, New York: Schocken Books, 1985 (EO).

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