
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1995
Pages: 185-200
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048146161
Full citation:
, "The apodicticity of absence", in: Derrida and phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 1995


The apodicticity of absence
pp. 185-200
in: Evans (ed), Derrida and phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 1995Abstract
Husserl criticizes traditional metaphysics. Nevertheless, for Derrida, "metaphysics' finest hour is represented by Husserl—The "return to the things themselves' is precisely this ultimate effacement of metaphysics in the act of its predominance. The "principle of principles,' that which guarantees the truth of the things themselves is an essential metaphysical one: the presence of presence to itself."1 Derrida himself says: "The ultimate form of ideality, the ideality of ideality,... is the living present, the self-presence of transcendental life. Presence has always been and will always, forever, be the form in which, we can say apodictically, the infinite diversity of contents is produced."2
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Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1995
Pages: 185-200
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048146161
Full citation:
, "The apodicticity of absence", in: Derrida and phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 1995