Reprint. Originally published 1978. An exploration of the philosophical and traditional roots of geometry. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry": An Introduction (1962) is Jacques Derrida's earliest published work. In this commentary-interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Derrida relates writing to such key concepts as differing, consciousness, presence, and historicity. Starting from Husserl's method of historical investigation, Derrida gradually unravels a deconstructive critique of phenomenology itself, which forms the foundation for his later criticism of Western metaphysics as a metaphysics of presence. The complete text of Husserl's Origin of Geometry is included.
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"One of Derrida's best."Radical Philosophy "Derrida's 'deconstructive' critique of phenomenology relates writing to the key concept of 'consciousness of difference.' Following Husserl, he explores the philosophical and traditional roots of geometry and the sciences as a kind of history. . . . [ This book] shows original thinking, and [ is] accurate but demanding."Library Journal
Acknowledgments v Preface: Undecidables and Old Names 1(1) John P. Leavey Undecidables and Deconstruction 1(6) Derridas Introduction to The Origin of Geometry 7(11) Deconstruction and the Science of Old Names 18(2) Translators Note 20(3) Introduction to The Origin of Geometry 23(158) The Sense of Sense-Investigation: Responsibility, Consciousness, and Existence 27(7) The Historical Reduction and the Necessity for Return Inquiry (Ruckfrage) in Reactivation 34(17) The Ego as Fundament and the Reduction of Factuality 51(11) Objectivity, Historicity, and Intentionality 62(4) Language, the Possibility of Transcendental Historicity 66(10) The How of Ideality: the Earth and the Living Present 76(11) The How of Ideality: Writing and Univocity as the Telos of Reactivation 87(20) Horizon: the Absolute of History, and Imaginary Variation 107(10) The Suspension of Ideality: Scientific Study of the Life-World (Lebenswelt) 117(5) Geography, Infinitization, and the Idea in the Kantian Sense 122(19) The Historicity of the Idea: Difference, Delay, Origins, and the Transcendental 141(40) Appendix: The Origin of Geometry 155(26) Edmund Husserl trans. David Carr Coda: contrapunctus and translation 181(12) John P. Leavey Index of Passages Cited from Husserl 193(4) Index 197
This Bison Book edition carries an afterword by the translator, John P. Leavey Jr., who has also translated (with Richard Rand) Derrida's Glas and supplied a Glassary, books published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1986.
