The suggestion that Language might be the Archimedean point sought by the philosophical tradition was explored by analytic philosophy – a movement which was fascinated by the idea that ‘logic’ or ‘conceptual analysis’ named instruments by which all the rest of culture could be held at arm’s length, seen in a clear cold light. From Heidegger’s and Derrida’s point of view, that movement was just one more effort at ‘metaphysics’ or ‘totalisation one more attempt to give the perturbed spirit rest. It was also bound to be short-lived, for Language is simply not as plausible a candidate for a resting-place as its predecessors.
Derrida is aiming at the very idea of argument which is more than invocation of the implicit assumptions of a current vocabulary, of a position which is more than a bit of logical space carved out by such a vocabulary. He wants to make trouble for the very ideas of an ‘intellectual position’, of ‘a clear view of a subject’, or ‘a clear non-metaphorical presentation of the substantive issue
Derrida is aiming at the very idea of argument which is more than invocation of the implicit assumptions of a current vocabulary, of a position which is more than a bit of logical space carved out by such a vocabulary. He wants to make trouble for the very ideas of an ‘intellectual position’, of ‘a clear view of a subject’, or ‘a clear non-metaphorical presentation of the substantive issue
Peter Cheevers Journalism and Short Stories published by Ether Books
PUBLISHED NAME | TITLE click on each title for more info |
| Peter Cheevers | Not Even A Recall – Where’s That Revolver? |
| Peter Cheevers | Violence in Chichester? No, Never |
| Peter Cheevers | I Never Saw A Woman Look So Wistfully |
| Peter Cheevers | A Night On The Moon |
| Peter Cheevers | All Flesh Is Grass |
| Peter Cheevers | No Atheists In Foxholes |
| Peter Cheevers | The Rats' Somme |
| Peter Cheevers | To Self-help or Not to Self-help? |
| Peter Cheevers | Wearing Theory like a Versace Waistcoat |
| Peter Cheevers | The Nonsense of Living in the Now |
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