The dialectic of absence and presence, or an exposure
of the importance of the dialectic of absence and presence is fundamental to
the process of destabilising formation into deformation. The process of
formation is at the same time, inevitably, a process of deformation. Presence
is constituted by its drawing on absence For Derrida, it is the trace of the
‘other’, absence, which signs in the sign called presence in our
speech or writing. It follows, concepts can never establish a full and replete
presence for themselves. This, as Derrida says, undermines Western metaphysics
because it is a claim to full presence which underpins metaphysical concepts
and procedures.
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