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Literary Criticism and Theories

Notes • Derrida discerns another aporia in regard to whether or not to forgive somebody who has
caused us significant suffering or pain. This particular paradox revolves around the premise
that if one forgives something that is actually forgivable, then one simply engages in calculative
reasoning and hence does not really forgive.

7.9 Key-Words

1. Episteme : Knowledge/system of thought
2. Arche : Origin/beginning/foundation/source
3. Telos : End/ goal/destiny

7.10 Review Questions
1. Discuss Derrida’s time and phenomenology.
2. Write a short note on the life and works of Derrida.
3. Explain Derrida’s deconstruction.
4. What do you mean by Logocentrism? Discuss.
5. What does Derrida mean by ‘supplementarity’?
6. Which thinkers have inaugurated ‘deconstructive discourse’?
Answers: Self-Assessment
1. (i)(c) (ii)(d) (iii)(a) (iv)(a)
7.11 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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