Introduction

the question of writing

pp. 1-8

in: Dror Pimentel, Heidegger with Derrida, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Abstract

Heidegger and Derrida; the deconstructive enterprise; logocentrism and Heidegger's metaphysics; Derrida's stance vis-à-vis Heidegger's logocentrism; writing and its denigration; writing in the broad sense (ontological writing); writing as contamination of presence, Being, and the aletheic space; Heidegger and Plato; the notion of the proper; writing as contamination of the proper.