Taking a cue from Jacques Derrida's Glas,this paper seeks to understand the idea of thanatopraxie or embalming in art.It sees thanatopraxie as a strategy to(en)counter the prevalent idea of a“book”as the repository ...
This paper focuses on Jacques Derrida’s theme“events of thought”and its application to interpretation of contemporary Chinese female art.These“thinking events”are associated to the philosopher’s reflection on“t...
This paper reinterprets the relation between Derridian deconstruction and Husserlian phenomenology on the basis of their respective methodological commitments.According to the proposed view,epoche,reduction,and eideti...
Deconstruction, advocated by Jacques Derrida, is a critic outlook that indicates the pitfall of the philosophical dichotomy in Western convention, revealing the unreliability of human language and conception. Hawthorn...
This paper offers a portrait of C. S. Peirce as a playful thinker but also an account of play as that upon which much turns. He was, after all, a philosopher who in his maturity insisted, "a bit of fun helps thought a...
This essay focuses on the overwhelming influence of global capitalism, in which the eruption of the Zi^ekian Real serves as the disruptive subversion. This essay suggests that the reading of ZiZek's and Derridean eth...
With the announcement of the sheep clone Dolly as the breakthrough in the biotechnology in news media around the turn of the twenty-first century, the rising issue of human clones in its development and the controvers...
This essay enacts a dialogue between Francois Girard's film The Red Violin (1998) and Jacques Derrida's contemplations on "memory," "spectrality" and "the work of mourning" to envision the possibility of ope...
This essay suggests an unlikely encounter between the recent thinker of the deconstruction of speeches, Jacques Derrida, and the medieval constructor of theological speeches, Saint Anselm. The common motto is the idea...