Derrida and the question of philosophy's history

Gary Shapiro

pp. 156-187

in: T. Z. Lavine, Victorino Tejera (eds), History and anti-history in philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1989

Abstract

Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. (Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte)¹

Cited authors

Derrida Jacques

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Marx Karl