Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Nov 2016)
MAROLF ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARGRAVIATE: COMMENTS ON THE MARGES DE LA PHILOSOPHIE OF JACQUES DERRIDA
Abstract
In this paper we would like to grasp – in the context of our comments on the Marges de la philosophie of J. Derrida – the word of philosophical discourse as the movement of the metaphysical male element (light) deep into the dark abyss of the metaphysical female element, in order to swell the mysterious material carrier of light – the sign – to release it and give it over to attack; respectively, as to try and tear the life and death mystery out of it... In a philosophical hermeneutics, we realize that every word – including the philosophical word – originates in emptiness, so it cannot have an “empty margin”; but every word is immersed” in various types of linguistic expression, which defines meanings contextually. So, we noticed, that when the author of Marges… writes about “the logic of the margin” – which, to us, does not seem “something so different” to the linguistic description of context as the tangle of “various forces”, deprived of “any center” – yet this subject of margin, being deprived of central forces, is at the center of Derrida`s considerations! This is similar to the situation in which we write about synchronous or articulate synchronous, but it is not the synchronous itself. Similarly, writings about the margin are not the margin...
