Notes from 'How to read Derrida, Penelope Deutscher, Granta books.'
Chapter 3: Differance:
'The writer writes in a language and in a logic whose proper system, laws and life his discourse by definition cannot dominate absolutely. He uses them only by letting himself, after a fashion and up to a point, be governed by the system. And the reading must always aim at a certain relationship, unpercieved by the writer, between what he commendsand what he does not command of the patterns of language he uses...a signifying structure that critical reading should produce.
What does produce mean here? In my attempt to explain that, I would initiate a justification of my principles of reading...
To produce this signifying structure obviously cannot consist of reproducing, by the effaced and respectful doubling of commentary, the conscious, voluntary, intentional relationship that the writer institutes (though)...without this recognition and respect, critical production would risk developing in any direction at all and authorize itself to say almost anything. But this indespensable guardrail has always only protected, it has never opened, a reading.
Yet if reading must not be content with doubling the text, it cannot legitimately transgress the text towards something other than it, towards a referent (a reality that is metaphysical, historical, psychobiographical, etc.) or towards a signified outside the text whose content could take place, could have taken place outside of language...
There is nothing outside of the text (there is no outside text; il n'y pas de hors-texte).'
Extract from Derrida 1997B, 157-8. Pp28.
'...an important Derridean term, Diffreance, arises fromm his appropriation of Sausseure's concept of the 'sign.' Pp29.
'In relation to the opposition between 'prescence' and 'absence' differance is neither present or absent. Instead, it is a kind of absence that generates the effects of a presence. It is neitherv identity nor difference. Instead, it is a kind of differentiation that produces the effects of identity and of difference between those identities.' Pp29.
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Chapter 3: Differance:
'The writer writes in a language and in a logic whose proper system, laws and life his discourse by definition cannot dominate absolutely. He uses them only by letting himself, after a fashion and up to a point, be governed by the system. And the reading must always aim at a certain relationship, unpercieved by the writer, between what he commendsand what he does not command of the patterns of language he uses...a signifying structure that critical reading should produce.
What does produce mean here? In my attempt to explain that, I would initiate a justification of my principles of reading...
To produce this signifying structure obviously cannot consist of reproducing, by the effaced and respectful doubling of commentary, the conscious, voluntary, intentional relationship that the writer institutes (though)...without this recognition and respect, critical production would risk developing in any direction at all and authorize itself to say almost anything. But this indespensable guardrail has always only protected, it has never opened, a reading.
Yet if reading must not be content with doubling the text, it cannot legitimately transgress the text towards something other than it, towards a referent (a reality that is metaphysical, historical, psychobiographical, etc.) or towards a signified outside the text whose content could take place, could have taken place outside of language...
There is nothing outside of the text (there is no outside text; il n'y pas de hors-texte).'
Extract from Derrida 1997B, 157-8. Pp28.
'...an important Derridean term, Diffreance, arises fromm his appropriation of Sausseure's concept of the 'sign.' Pp29.
'In relation to the opposition between 'prescence' and 'absence' differance is neither present or absent. Instead, it is a kind of absence that generates the effects of a presence. It is neitherv identity nor difference. Instead, it is a kind of differentiation that produces the effects of identity and of difference between those identities.' Pp29.
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