Submitted by Setor de Tratamento da Informa??o - BC/PUCRS (tede2@pucrs.br) on 2015-04-17T12:58:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 467296 - Texto Completo.pdf: 1076170 bytes, checksum: e273774798ec89ebbbe67502405c380f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-17T12:58:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 467296 - Texto Completo.pdf: 1076170 bytes, checksum: e273774798ec89ebbbe67502405c380f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-30 / Le texte suivant cherche d?offrir des moyens th?oriques pour une interpr?tation ? propos de la mort chez Maurice Blanchot et Jacques Derrida. Les points d?importance dans lesquels le travail s?approfondit sont les suivants. D?abord, on pr?sente la pertinence de la mort dans la pens?e blanchotienne, soulignant sa relation avec les pens?es de Hegel, Heidegger et Bataille, entreprenant une lecture principalement de ? La litt?rature et le droit ? la mort ?. Pourtant, il s?agit ici de pr?senter, au contraire, des arguments qui d?voilent une s?paration de Blanchot aux interpr?tations de la mort dans la pens?e des auteurs susmentionn?s, mettant en ?vidence sa plus grande importance dans la discussion avec Derrida et, dans un certain sens, avec Levinas ? cette perspective appara?t, surtout, dans L?entretien infini et L??criture du d?sastre. Apr?s on pr?sente, sp?cifiquement chez Derrida, la port?e de la mort pour le d?veloppement de la pens?e derridienne en g?n?ral et de la d?construction. Ainsi, il s?agit de souligner les arguments derridiens, dans des partes relativement diverses de son oeuvre, pour mettre en ?vidence la centralit?, dans la d?construction, d?une critique de la mort et de l?appr?hension philosophique de la mort comme moyen arch?type d?une sensification qui l?gitime le discours conceptuel. ? cet instant, on s?affaire ? d?montrer l?importance, presque axiomatique, d?une critique de l?utilisation de la mort pour le mouvement de la d?construction, pr?sentant donc, ? partir de Le S?minaire La peine de Mort, la d?construction de la mort comme un?aspect particuli?rement important dans l?ampleur de la pens?e de Derrida Finalement, on s?affaire ? pr?senter la convergence et l?intimit? entre les pens?es de Derrida et Blanchot, tel que ses analogues perspectives apor?tiques, qui insistent sur l?irr?ductibilit? de la mort au travail de la pens?e, comme un ?l?ment essentiel ? au-del? et en-de?? de l?essence ? de l?alt?rit?. Ainsi, l?impossibilit? de mourir comme d?nonciation du mouvement dialectique, elle se rassemble ? la d?construction de la mort en tant qu?une critique de la l?gitimation de la v?rit? ? partir d?une d?termin? appr?hension de la mort. Outre ces concepts, on insiste sur les caract?res de la po?sie et de l?alt?rit?, exprimant l?implication de cette question aux pens?es de l??thique et de l?esth?tique en tant que formes d?un t?moignage incommensurable aux tentatives de circonscription de la vie. / Esta disserta??o trata de elencar subs?dios para uma interpreta??o a respeito da morte na obras de Maurice Blanchot e Jacques Derrida. Os pontos de pertin?ncia em cuja tese se desdobra s?o os seguintes. Primeiramente, a pertin?ncia da morte dentro do pensamento blanchotiano, destacando suas rela??es ao pensamento de Hegel, Heidegger e Bataille, abordando, principalmente, ?La litt?rature et le droit ? la mort?. Neste sentido, a disserta??o trata de apresentar argumentos que demonstram uma separa??o de Blanchot ?s interpreta??es sobre a morte nos autores citados, inserindo sua pertin?ncia maior na discuss?o com Derrida e, de certo modo, com Levinas ? perspectiva tomada, sobretudo, de L?entretien infini e L??criture du d?sastre. Em seguida apresenta-se, detidamente em Derrida, a crucialidade da morte para o desenvolvimento em sentido lato do pensamento derridiano e da desconstru??o. Assim, trata-se de destacar os argumentos derridianos, em setores parcialmente diversos da sua obra, para evidenciar a estreita liga??o da desconstru??o com uma cr?tica da morte e da apreens?o filos?fica do pensamento da morte como atributo arqu?tipo de uma sensifica??o que legitima o discurso conceitual. Neste ponto, a preocupa??o do trabalho ? fazer surgir a import?ncia, quase que axiom?tica, de uma cr?tica do uso da morte para o movimento da desconstru??o, apresentando, portanto, a partir de Le S?minaire La peine de Mort, a desconstru??o da morte como um aspecto de extrema relev?ncia no amplo pensamento de Derrida. Finalmente, a disserta??o trata de fazer convergir e evidenciar a intimidade da rela??o entre os pensamentos de Derrida e Blanchot, na sua similar orienta??o apor?tica, que insiste na irredutibilidade da morte ao trabalho do pensamento, como elemento essencial ? al?m e aqu?m da ess?ncia - da alteridade. Assim, a impossibilidade de morrer, como den?ncia do movimento dial?tico, seria an?loga ? desconstru??o da morte enquanto cr?tica da legitima??o da verdade a partir de uma determinada apreens?o da morte. Diagonalmente a tais conceitos, a disserta??o insiste sob os caracteres da poesia e da alteridade, expressando a implicabilidade desta quest?o aos pensamentos ?tico e est?tico como formas de um testemunho incomensur?vel ?s tentativas de circunscri??o da vida.

The aim of this study is to attempt a re-conceptualisation of ethics and politics away from the well-rehearsed structure of singularity versus community, particularity or individuality versus universality, as well as from the inadequate dyadic positioning of these sets of terms. Dominant scholarship on Lévinas's and Derrida's work has generally been divided into those who see Derrida's work as continuing the Lévinasian legacy, and thus having little to offer to the political, and those who would like to divorce the trajectory of deconstruction from the Lévinasian heritage, and thus reveal it as being inherently political. The above split in opinion is largely based on a divergence in the interpretation of Lévinas's own writings as essentially about ethics, and therefore as either having little to offer to our thinking of the political, or as undergoing something like a ‘split', with the focus coming to rest more clearly on politics through the figure of the third, in later writings. My contribution to this impasse is to foreground a recent, though much overlooked notion within Jacques Derrida's work as an alternative to thinking being-with: that of community of singularities. I also suggest the notions of alteronomy and fiendship as alternatives to thinking being-with, which take into account the way in which the other-within-the-self restructures the concepts of freedom and autonomy and takes them beyond a humanist context. I will be arguing from two overarching points: a) that Lévinas's own work can convincingly be interpreted as not only concerned with the political from his earliest writings, but as setting up the political as the interruptive force within the ethical, thus providing a shift in perspective for what is essentially a mutually-interruptive relation between ethics and politics, and b) that Derrida's own writing need not be ‘divorced' from Lévinas's trajectory of thought, in order to be considered as having something to offer to our re-thinking of the relation between ethics and politics.

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Tradução, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, 2014 / Submitted by Ana Cristina Barbosa da Silva (annabds@hotmail.com) on 2014-11-28T18:19:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_JulianaCecciSilva.pdf: 966858 bytes, checksum: 43d1c20b5a3fc31c972dff9469fb4555 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2014-12-01T15:25:27Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_JulianaCecciSilva.pdf: 966858 bytes, checksum: 43d1c20b5a3fc31c972dff9469fb4555 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-01T15:25:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_JulianaCecciSilva.pdf: 966858 bytes, checksum: 43d1c20b5a3fc31c972dff9469fb4555 (MD5) / À luz do pensamento do rastro de Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), da desconstrução, e de nossa experiência com a leitura e a tradução de textos da Filosofia da Linguagem, sobretudo os do alemão Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), pretendemos apresentar algumas teses filosóficas (etimológicas e filológicas) de Leibniz sobre a questão da natureza da linguagem que contribuíram para a formação da Linguística Histórico-Comparativa e, do ponto de vista de Derrida, das teorias logocêntricas da Tradução. Teorias fundadas na busca pelo "sentido", isso é, em uma metafísica da linguagem. Para ilustrar tais considerações, apoiados nos fundamentos teóricos e metodológicos do tradutor Antoine Berman (1942-1991), em particular nos desenvolvidos em seu La Traduction et la Lettre ou l'alberge du lointain (2007), em primeiro lugar, faremos a "analítica" de alguns trechos da primeira tradução brasileira da obra Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain, par l'auteur du système de l'harmonie préetablie ( (1765) - do primeiro capítulo do livro III, o Des Mots, para sermos mais específicos - a fim de explicitar o "sistema de deformação" da "letra" que aí opera; em seguida, proporemos uma segunda tradução dos três capítulos iniciais, ou melhor, uma "retradução". Trata-se de capítulos em que Leibniz tece importantes considerações sobre os aspectos "materiais" da natureza da linguagem. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / In light of the thought of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) trace, of the deconstruction, and of our experience with the reading and the translating texts of the philosophy of the language, especially those of the German Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), we intend to presente some philosophical (etymological and philological) theses of Leibniz on the subject of the language’s nature that contributed to the formation of the Historical-comparative Linguistics and, from the Derrida’s point of view, to the logocentric theories of translation. Theories founded on the search for “the signification”, i.e., on a metaphysics of the language. To illustrate such considerations, supported by the theoretical and methodological foundations of the translator Antoine Berman (1942-1991), particularly in those developed in his La Traduction et la Lettre ou l’Alberge du lointain (2007), first, in order to explain the “letter’s system of deformation” that operates there, we will make the “analytical” of some passages of the first Brazilian translation of the work Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain, par l’auteur du système de l’harmonie préétablie (1765) – the first chapter of the book III, Des Mots, to be more specific –; after that, we will propose a second translation of the three initials chapters, or better, a “retranslation”. These are chapters in which Leibniz weaves important considerations about the “material” aspects of the nature of language.

This mini-thesis is located in historical discursive practices, choreographing history, biography as a source for making dance in South Africa and choreographic transformations in South African choreography since the 1994 democratic elections. Derridian concepts of deconstruction will be referenced in an attempt to focus the argument of this research, which comments on choreographic transformations since 1994, by subverting the influence of the 'violent hierarchies' enforced by the apartheid regime on South African cultural life and choreographic identity. The researcher draws on these considerations in order to explore the hybrid nature of South African choreography that has emerged since 1994. Chapter one examines the fallacious nature of historical discourse through a consideration and application of Derrida's notions of deconstruction and fabrication. Chapter two explores the notion of choreographing history in theatre through a focus on the objective/subjective fallacy and the history of the body as a textual medium. Chapter three focuses the study specifically in biography as a discourse within the idea of theatre. This approach to biography can be encapsulated by the phrase 'telling lives'. This chapter also explores the relationship between the traditional binaries of writing as a purely cerebral act and choreography as a purely visceral experience. Chapter four brings the focus to the specific post-apartheid South African context. This chapter considers the hybrid forms of dance emerging in South Africa as well as the notion of protest in relation to theatre and dance. The final chapter is an investigation and analysis of two choreographic works created by South African choreographers since 1994 in relation to biography and concepts of deconstruction. These works are Gary Gordon's Bessie's Head (2000) and Gregory Maqoma's Miss Thandi (2002). The focus of the analysis also reveals the inherent difficulty in objective interpretation, and considers the problematics of collaboration and autobiography when choreographing within a biographical context.

Poststructuralism may be broadly characterized as a move away from traditional Western foundationalist thinking. Such thinking is exemplified by post-enlightenment transcendentalism, humanism and subject-centredness. This study aims to contribute to the poststructuralist decentering of the subject by means of the application of the critical practice of deconstruction – a type of analysis named and popularized by Jacques Derrida, who is himself frequently classified as a poststructuralist, in which the ruling logic of the text is undermined and the meaning of the text is therefore shown not to be fully present within it – to four texts by a writer who is arguably among the most prominent within the English literary canon: William Shakespeare. The first deconstructive reading centres around the court scene at the climax of the bond story in The Merchant of Venice. Here the apparent contrast between the restrictive law – which views Shylock’s claim of a pound of Antonio’s flesh as valid – and justice and mercy – which regard adherence to this bond as contrary to the spirit of the law – is collapsed, and justice is shown to be capable of being as restrictive as the law, while mercy becomes embroiled in all the trading that occurs in The Merchant of Venice, and demonstrates the capacity to be mercenary. The Tempest is examined next: the starting point is the apparent Nature/Culture distinction within the play. The reading is influenced by Derrida’s use of the notion of supplementarity in his examination in “… That Dangerous Supplement …” of the Nature/Culture distinction in Rousseau. Particular attention is given first to the wedding masque, where the central figure of Ceres, who is goddess of agriculture and marriage, and also the source of seasonal changes, is shown to problematize any absolute distinctions between Nature and Culture. Such distinctions are further collapsed with reference to Prospero and Miranda’s teaching of language to Caliban, as the latter, who supposedly is representative of natural man, is shown to have had his thought supplemented by language before Prospero’s arrival on the island. Hamlet is approached with a reading that again draws from Derrida – this time his exploration of Mallarmé’s “Mimique” in “The Double Session”. Plato’s theory of forms also becomes involved as this chapter plays with the distinction between Being and imitation, destabilizing this distinction within Hamlet and problematizing Hamlet’s question: “To be, or not to be”. And finally, the chapter on Measure for Measure is concerned with the ideas of restraint and freedom, inspecting Lucio’s suggestion that his restraint arises from “too much liberty”, as well as many other instances in the play where restraint, as well as freedom – which seems at times to function in the same way as restraint – seems significant. The reading draws attention to its own impulse to restrain the reader with the truisms it presents by being written in the form of thirty-four aphorisms, and thus alludes to Derrida’s “Aphorism Countertime”. / Dissertation (MA (English))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Modern European Languages / unrestricted

Tableau d'honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2016-2017 / Ce mémoire se donne pour objectif d'expliciter et d'interroger les dimensions phénoménologique et éthique de la question animale à partir des écrits de Jacques Derrida. Pour ce faire, en prenant pour fil directeur les intrications entre la subjectivité et l'animalité, nous tenterons d'exhumer les moments dogmatiques au sein de la phénoménologie de Husserl et de Heidegger quant à leur conception des animaux. Dans un premier temps, nous expliciterons la position de Derrida à l'égard de la thèse heideggérienne qui oppose le Dasein et ce qui ne serait que « seulement vivant ». Dans un second temps, nous nous intéresserons aux écrits de Derrida sur la phénoménologie de Husserl afin de comprendre pour quelles raisons Derrida n'adhère pas non plus à un continuisme entre les hommes et les animaux. Enfin, ne souscrivant ni à la thèse discontinuiste de Heidegger, ni celle continuiste de Husserl, nous aborderons les conséquences éthiques que Derrida dégage à partir de l'impossibilité de penser autant le propre de l'homme que le tout autre qu'est l'animal, nous engageant par là dans sa pensée de l'hospitalité et de la responsabilité au-delà de toute subjectivité.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the relationship between law and justice. Firstly, it is argued that the concept of justice tends to be defined too narrowly as distributive justice or as a mechanism to maintain social order. It is argued that Jacques Derrida's understanding of justice not only gives a richer and broader understanding of the concept, but also on its complex relationship with the law. Lastly, some of the possible implications for jurisprudence (with specific reference to Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory and Drucilla Cornell) are examined. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die verhouding tussen geregtigheid en die reg. Daar word eerstens geargumenteer dat geregtigheid te maklik gedefinieer word as distributiewe geregtigheid of as In meganisme om sosiale orde te bewerkstellig. Daar word geargumenteer dat Jacques Derrida se verstaan van die konsep nie aileen 'n breer en ryker verstaan moontlik maak nie, maar dat dit ook fokus op die komplekse verhouding met die reg. Laastens word sommige van die moontlike implikasies vir regsfilosofie (met spesifieke verwysing na Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory en Drucilla Cornell) ondesoek,

Thesis (PhD) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Philosophy has traditionally been concerned with the question of reason and rationality, as its central focus. From the perspective of the modern metaphysical tradition, this focus has developed around the theme of subjectivity in general, and the assumption of an ahistorical transcendental subject in particular. The idea of reason was thus foundational for the articulation and validation of the notions of truth and freedom. From the perspective of modernity, reason has thus been the condition of the possibility of enlightenment, freedom and moral progress. The debate between Habermas and the representatives of postmodern thinking represents the latest chapter regarding the question of reason, its limits, and its possibilities. What makes this debate particularly challenging is that Habermas, while he defends the idea of reason against its critique by the postmodernists, is actually in agreement with them in their dismissal of the tradition of metaphysical thinking. In view of his defense of the idea of reason, however, Habermas has invariably been accused of defending an outmoded and discredited form of philosophical thinking, while his opponents have generally been hailed as progressive thinkers who have succeeded in effecting a radical break with the conceptual legacy of the metaphysical tradition. In my dissertation I argue that the exact opposite position is the case, namely, that it is Habermas, and not his postmodern opponents, who has effected a radical break with metaphysical thinking. It is his ability to transform the idea of reason, from a transcendental into a postmetaphysical concept, in terms of which the question of reason and rationality, and the related ideas of truth and knowledge, are recast in fallibilistic terms, that, in my view, represents the overcoming of metaphysics. The postmodern turn, on the other hand, in view of its reluctance to consider the question of reason from an alternative model of rationality, finds itself still trapped within a form of transcendental thinking in which it seeks to enquire into the (im)possibility of reason, in the absence of a transcendental subject. In the final analysis, I argue that it is postmetaphysical rather than postmodern thinking, that offers us a practical alternative to the problematic conception of reason, bequeathed by the tradition of metaphysical thinking. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die fenomeen van die rede en die betekenis van rasionaliteit vorm tradisioneel 'n sentrale fokus van die filosofie. Vanuit die perspektief van die moderne metafisiese tradisie het hierdie fokus ontwikkel rondom die tema van subjektiwiteit in die algemeen, en die aanname van 'n a-historiese transendentele subjek in die besonder. Die rede was dus fundamenteel vir die artikulasie en legitimering van die konsepte van waarheid en vryheid. Vanuit die perspektief van moderniteit was die rede dus die voorwaarde vir die moontlikheid van verligting, vryheid, en morele vooruitgang. Die debat tussen Habermas en die verteenwoordigers van postmoderne denke verteenwoordig die mees onlangse hoofstuk van die verhaal van die vraag na rede en rasionaliteit - die beperkings daarvan, asook die moontlikhede daarvan. Hierdie debat bied besondere uitdagings omdat Habermas, terwyl hy die idee van rede verdedig teen die kritiek van die postmoderniste, eintlik met hulle saamstem vir sover hulle die tradisie van metafisiese denke verwerp. In die lig van sy verdediging van die idee van rede, is Habermas egter voortdurend daarvan beskuldig dat hy 'n uitgediende en gediskrediteerde vorm van filosofiese denke bly voorstaan, terwyl sy opponente in die algemeen voorgehou is as progressiewe denkers wat suksesvol 'n radikale breuk gemaak het met die konseptuele erfenis van die metafisiese tradisie. In my dissertasie beweer ek dat die teenoorgestelde inderwaarheid die geval is, naamlik dat dit Habermas, en nie sy postmoderne opponente nie, is wat hierdie radikale breuk met metafisiese denke suksesvol uitgevoer het. Dit is sy verrnoe om die idee van die rede te transformeer vanaf 'n transendentale na 'n post- metafisiese konsep, in terme waarvan die vraag na rede en rasionaliteit, en die verwante idees van waarheid en kennis, omskep is in fallibilistiese beg rippe, wat, soos ek aantoon, 'n (die!) suksesvolle transendering van die metafisika bewerkstellig. Die postmoderne wending, aan die ander kant, in die lig van die traagheid daarvan om 'n alternatiewe en verruimde konsepsie van rasionaliteit te ontwikkel, bly vasgevang in 'n vorm van transendentele denke waarin dit probeer om ondersoek in te stel na die (on)moontlikheid van die rede ten aansien van die afwesigheid van 'n transendentele subjek. Uiteindelik beweer ek dat dit die post-metafisiese eerder as die postmoderne denke is wat aan ons 'n praktiese alternatief bied vir die problematiese konsep van die rede, soos ons dit qeerf het by die tradisie van metafisiese denke.