Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:38:24 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: "Deconstruction"


Pedro,
	I quite agree with you when you say 


> ...  we can't find in Derrida the
> heideggerian "pathos" of "overcoming" metaphysics, and that this makes him
> rather different from Heidegger. And, to conclude, that this difference of
> his is not one of "opposition" or invertion. But I agree with you that this
> step wouldn't probably be possible without Heidegger.

The nature of Heidegger's later project is ambivalent -- thinking as waiting,
attending -- neither commits to an overcoming, nor denies it (though it his more
sober moments Heidegger does say there is no philosophy 'beyond metaphysics"). 
I would agree that Derrida's less epochally framed questions are more successful
in giving us a ground-level view of what is going on with thinking, writing, and
'life'.

Regards,
Reg


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