Caputo and Derrida / by Justin Harrison


Just documenting and collating key quotes for research- don’t worry about reading unless you really want to….

leaking

overflowing

contaminating

Density of language

The granular

Khôra

Differance

Leaking

Atolysis

Emptying out

Container

Liminal

Thoughts

Transform

Passage

“Transcendental conditions nail things down, pin them in place, inscribe them firmly within rigorously demarcated horizons; quasi-transcendental conditions allow them to slip loose, to twist free from their surrounding horizons, to leak and run off, to exceed or overflow their margins. The problem in a transcendental philosophy is how to establish communication across the borders; the problem in a quasi-transcendental philosophy is how to keep things from running into each other and contaminating everything. But a quasi-transcendental condition is a condition of or for entities, not an entity itself; a condition under which things appear, but too poor and impoverished, too unkingly, to dictate what there is or what there is not, lacking the power to bring what is not into being, lacking the authority to prohibit something from being. So différance describes the possibility and the impossibility of a language that addresses God, of positive, onto-theo-logical languages, like that of Thomas Aquinas, and the extraordinary languages of mystical theologians like John of the Cross, of mystical poets like Angelus Silesius, with all their paradoxes and paralogisms, detours and dissonances. Différance describes the languages of faith and prayer which, as Derrida's Work evolves, prove to be not just particular examples of language, but wemplary uses that exceed linguistic categorization and tend to coincide with language itself, to become the very yes, or amen, of language to what Is happening. That is why deconstruction is not ultimately neutral. Even diftrance describes the possibility and impossibility of the language in which God is coldheartedly denied by Hume of Bertrand Russell, excortpied by Nietzsche for all of It’s failings, or brushed off with a shrug by kon'y, who does not see why we need bother to talk like that,_Dilitance is altogether too meager and poor a thing to settle the quiete” Caputo Payers and Tears of Derrida p12-13

I wonder does Derrida provide the conceptual context for where transformation can occur - the passage way?