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Heidegger: The Question of Being and History (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida)
Heidegger The Question of Being and History - The Seminars of Jacques Derrida Author:Jacques Derrida The present work is the fourth volume of the twenty projected volumes of our Seminars of Jacques Derrida Series edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf. The work derives from an early phase of Derrida?s teaching at the Ecole Normale Superieur at Ulm from 1964-5. In this course Derrida presents an almost surgically precise reading of Heideg... more »ger?s Being and Time based on the original German text most of which had not yet been translated into French. The course thus marks the very beginning of the study of Heidegger?s work in French higher education. It also heralds the analyses of Heidegger?s work that Derrida would go on to propose, not only in the years immediately following, but also others that come much later. He frequently returned in subsequent published works to one particular paragraph of Sein und Zeit, (§72 on ?thrownness?), so central to this 1964-5 course, and to another sustained exchange with Heidegger, whose central theme of inauthenticity is clearly broached here. One can also observe here how Derrida?s thinking is settling into place and is elaborating its major operative concepts: ?writing,? ?text,? and ?graft.? On the other hand, the very term ?deconstruction,? explicitly proposed as a translation of Destruktion, is several times put aside here in favor of other translations such as ?solicitation? and ?shaking up,? which will, with a few exceptions, not be retained in Derrida?s thinking. It is only much later that Derrida will lay claim to the word ?deconstruction? and develop it in numerous ways. The work is thus essential for scholars of Heidegger, French philosophy, and Derrida himself.« less