By Jacques Derrida
Utilizing the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring element, Jacques Derrida during this publication conducts a profound evaluation of the philosophy of the feel of contact, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking e-book Corpus he discusses intimately. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis Chr?tien are mentioned, as are Ren? Descartes, Diderot, Maine de Biran, F?lix Ravaisson, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others. The scope of Derrida’s deliberations makes this publication a digital encyclopedia of the philosophy of contact (and the body). Derrida provides distinctive attention to the considering contact in Christianity and, in discussing Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Deconstruction of Christianity,” devotes a bit of the booklet to the feel of contact within the Gospels. one other part concentrates on “the flesh,” as taken care of via Merleau-Ponty and others in his wake. Derrida’s critique of intuitionism, particularly within the phenomenological culture, is without doubt one of the guiding threads of the book.On Touching features a wealth of notes that supply an incredibly invaluable bibliographical source. own and indifferent unexpectedly, this booklet, one of many first released in English translation after Jacques Derrida’s demise, serves as an invaluable and poignant retrospective at the paintings of the thinker. A tribute via Jean-Luc Nancy, written an afternoon after Jacques Derrida’s demise, is an further characteristic.
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That's my hypothesis, and I would like to support it with a few quotations. " Beating time, the opening of the mouth responds to the lips moving-the other's lips, the mother's lips at birth, then mine, if I may say so-always nearest to birth into the world, and from a mother, a noun and name Nancy never pronounces. Isn't birth into the world the first ex-pulsion? The word "mother" does not appear, despite Nancy's ob vious, explicit reference to her (at the time of birth and nursing) , despite his reference to the edges of the orifice, to the lips parting and opening the passage for the newborn (the labia between the mother's legs as well as the infant's lips in their first cry) , despite his reference to the breasts parting the nursling's mouth.
The antennae of insects seem merely to show the pres ence of an object; they are not designed to explore its form" (Kant, An thropology, p. 41). " Since the privileged position o f touch is defined here from the point of view of objective knowledge, it is advisable to set apart from it all that has to do with "vital" impressions (Vitalemp findung, sensus vagus), that which is not specific to an organ (Organempfin dung, sensus fixus) and that, through touch, leads us to sense something other than forms: coldness and heat, softness and roughness.
But I self-touches spac ing itself out, losing contact with itself, precisely in touching itself. It switches off the contact, it abstains from touching, so as to touch itself. "C:: a se touche, un Je" :20 here the French se and its grammar remain eter nally untranslatable. This accident is all the more interesting since it touches on the idiom, precisely-on the untranslatable singularity at the very heart itself of translation. "11 se touche" means that it or he self touches itself or himself (in a loop, with the mouth lip-synching the loop ing-of a circle, literally of an 0 or a zero) .