Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters Between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics

Reading Derrida and Ricoeur......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
1. Ricoeur on Husserl and Freud: From a Perceptual to a Reflective Present......Page 27
Ricoeur Reading Husserl: The Thick Present and Continuity......Page 28
Freud’s Quantitative Hypothesis and Unconscious Autonomy......Page 39
From a Perceptual to a Refl ective Present......Page 45
2. Derrida and Rhythmic Discontinuity......Page 57
Husserl’s Aporia: Discontinuity and Repetition......Page 58
The Necessary Possibility of Difference and Syncopated Temporality......Page 66
Freud: Permeability and Impermeability, Life and Death......Page 72
First Inscription and Nachträglichkeit......Page 81
Scriptural Metaphorics......Page 87
3. Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Self......Page 97
The Singularity of the Speaking Subject......Page 98
Idem and Ipse: From Narrative Identity to the Ethical Self......Page 105
Benevolent Selfhood......Page 111
Oneself as Another......Page 117
Concluding Remarks......Page 125
4. Secret Singularities......Page 133
Spacing, Iterability, Signatures......Page 134
Secrets of Speech......Page 144
Originary Mourning: In Memory of the Absolutely Other......Page 152
An Unexperienced Experience: The Absolute Arrivant......Page 158
Expropriation......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 175
Appendix: “The Word: Giving, Naming, Calling”......Page 181
Notes......Page 191
Bibliography......Page 221
D......Page 233
F......Page 235
I......Page 236
N......Page 237
R......Page 238
T......Page 239
W......Page 240