The Barren Epistemology of Jacques Derrida: A Critique of Deconstruction from a Nietzschean Perspective

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Project
	Abstract
		Chapter 1: Paralogism of Writing
		Chapter 2: The Anti-Logic of Différance
		Chapter 3: Signified, Signifier, and the Continuum
		Chapter 4: Intentional Forms in Speaker and Speech
		Chapter 5: The “Gay Science” of Derrida
		Chapter 6: Nietzsche versus Derrida
	Notes
Chapter 1: Paralogism of Writing: Introducing a Difference between writing and Writing
	Deconstructionist Politics: Liberating Writing from Speech
		The Proposal, “Writing has been Repressed!”
		The Hierarchical Relationship between Speech and Writing
		The Retreat: “Writing is Not the Same as Writing”!
	Paralogical Reasoning
		Kant’s Notion of Paralogical Reasoning
		Derrida’s Paralogism of “Writing”
		Derrida’s Paralogism of “Institution”
		Derrida’s Paralogism of “Parasitism”
	Derrida’s Paradoxical Introduction of an In-Itself of Writing
		Grammatology’s Insistence of Generalizing Concepts
		Para-logy as Paralysis of Discussion
	Notes
Chapter 2: The Anti-Logic of Différance: Self-Contradiction Raised to Transcendental Law
	On the Appearances of Différance
	A Paradoxical Foundationalism
		Différance as an Indeterminable Agent
		Radicalizing Causality-Thinking: Différance Is Nothing Causing Something
	Objections, Defenses, and Self-Defenses
		Defenses and Criticisms of Grammatological Transcendentalism
		Derrida’s Self-Immunizing Responses to Critics
	Notes
Chapter 3: Signifier, Signified, and the Continuum: A Nietzsche-Saussurean Epistemology
	The Grammatological Master-Narrative
	How to Illustrate the Communication of Meaning
	Saussure’s “Signified” as a Continuum, Not a Form
	A Nietzsche-Saussurean Epistemology
		Saussure’s “Signified” and Nietzsche’s “Chaotic Subject”
		Merging the Language Theories of Nietzsche and Saussure
		A New Take on the Simplification- and Arbitrariness-Theses in Nietzsche and Saussure
		A Theoretical Synthesis
		An Illustration
	Notes
Chapter 4: Intentions of Speaker and Speech-Acts: Defending Speech-Acts and Ordinary Language
	The Metaphysical “Voice” as Self-Presence
		A Voice without Words
		The Cartesian Theater Setting the Stage for the Rational Subject
		The Necessary Possibility of Failure
		The Necessary Possibility of Absence
		Ordinary Language and Metaphysical Discourse
	Speaker-Intentions, Speech-act-Intentions, and the Unconscious
		The Surface and the Abyss
		The Paralogism of Intention
		Introducing Alternative Unconscious Intentions
		Classifying Three Forms of Intention: sai, si, and ui
		Formalizing Derrida’s Essential Argument
	Repeating and Reiterating
		The Différance of Iterability
		Remembering and Forgetting a Shopping List
		Reiteration and Repetition
	Critique of Labyrinthian Analysis of Unconscious Intentions
		“Truth” in Speech-Act Theory
		“True Speech” versus “False Analysis”
		Reading for the Labyrinth in a Letter by Freud
		Reviving Psycho-Biographical Analysis
		Deconstructive versus Reconstructive Analysis of a Letter
			Probability Is Not Always Truth
			The Fake Mourning of a Workaholic
			Deconstruction and Number Mysticism
			Freud’s Oedipal Rivalry with His Son-in-Law
			Freud’s Fake Protestations of Love for His Son-in-Law
			Freud’s Jealous Protection of His Daughter’s Remains
	Notes
Chapter 5: The “Gay Science” of Derrida: Nietzsche’s Thinking as Playful Différance-Logic
	The Alleged Nietzsche-Derrida Symbiosis
		Deconstruction’s Nietzsche
		Derrida’s Nietzsche
	Différance as Folding and Unfolding an Umbrella ad Infinitum
		Reducing Nietzsche’s Thinking to Ordinary Speech
		Différance-Logic in the Umbrella-Example
		Serious Playfulness
	Différance as Indecisive Decisiveness
	Notes
Chapter 6: Nietzsche versus Derrida: On Truth, Presence, Metaphysics, Woman, and Nihilism
	The Concept of Truth
	Absence and Presence
	What is Metaphysics?
	The Woman Question14
		Woman as Another Word for Différance
		The Superior Woman in Nietzsche
			The “Ewig Weibliche”
			Woman as the Superior Sex
			When You Go to a Woman, Don’t Forget the Whip
			The Logic of Seduction
			Différance or Self-Preservation
	Nihilism versus Annihilism
		Nietzsche’s Nihilisms: Complete/Incomplete, Active/Reactive, Christian
		Nietzsche’s Epistemology as Nihilism
		Deconstruction as Epistemological Annihilism
	Notes
Conclusion
	Note
Bibliography
Index
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