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I dare say that the distinction between a finite and an infinite cause of the trace [the always-already hidden contradictions of language] appears secondary here. It is itself an effect of trace or differance [infinite postponing of the presence of meaning], which does not mean that the trace or differance (of which I have tried to show elsewhere that it is finite, insofar as it is infinite) have a cause or an origin (Jacques Derrida, How to Avoid Speaking: Denials, 99). Hegels critique of Kant would no doubt also hold against Husserl. But this appearing of the Idea as an infinite differance can only be produced within a relationship with death in general. Only a realation to my-death could make the infinite differing of presence appear. By the same token, compared to the ideality of the positive infinite, this relation to my-death becomes an accident of empirical finitude. The appearing of the infinite differance is itself finite. Consequently, differance, which does not occur outside this relation, becomes the finite of life as an essential relation with oneself and ones death. The infinite differance is finite. It can therefore no longer be conceived within the opposition of finiteness and infinity, absence and presence, negation and affirmation (Derrida, The Supplement of Origin, 102). . . . WAT.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:04:21 +0000

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