Frasi di Jacques Derrida
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Jacques Derrida, nato Jackie Élie Derrida , è stato un filosofo, saggista, accademico ed epistemologo francese.

Professore prima all'École Normale Supérieure, co-fondatore del Collège International de Philosophie e poi, fino alla morte, directeur d'études presso l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales di Parigi, il suo nome è legato al concetto di decostruzione, che ebbe una forte influenza sul pensiero della seconda metà del Novecento, in ambiti disciplinari molto diversi dalla filosofia, come la linguistica, la critica letteraria, la teoria politica, la giurisprudenza, gli studi religiosi, la teoria dei media, l'antropologia, gli studi culturali, l'architettura , gli studi postcoloniali, gli studi di genere e la psicoanalisi. La sua opera, che ebbe una diffusione globale, in particolare negli Stati Uniti e in Sud America, è solitamente associata al cosiddetto post-strutturalismo francese o al postmodernismo, benché Derrida non si sia mai riconosciuto in queste denominazioni.

Influenzato dalla fenomenologia di Edmund Husserl e dall'ontologia fondamentale di Martin Heidegger, il suo pensiero si concentrò inizialmente sui problemi epistemologici della filosofia francese degli anni sessanta, riguardanti lo statuto delle scienze umane, il contributo della psicoanalisi e della linguistica e il superamento dell'umanesimo. In seguito, a partire dagli anni ottanta e novanta, l'interrogazione di Derrida si rivolse a temi di carattere etico e politico, fra cui il cosmopolitismo, la natura della democrazia, i diritti umani e animali, l'idea di Europa e la crisi della sovranità. I suoi interventi lo resero una delle voci pubbliche più note nel panorama intellettuale europeo, al punto da essere più volte indicato come possibile vincitore del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura.

Il suo pensiero, esposto in uno stile difficile per via di un complesso lavoro sul linguaggio filosofico, è stato spesso oggetto di controversie, forti polemiche e talvolta netti rifiuti, soprattutto nel mondo della filosofia analitica anglosassone. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Luglio 1930 – 9. Ottobre 2004
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Jacques Derrida frasi celebri

“La vita è l'origine non rappresentabile della rappresentazione.”

Origine: Da La scrittura e la differenza, traduzione di G. Pozzi, Einaudi, Torino, 1990, p. 301.

“Sono vegetariano nell'anima.”

Attribuite
Origine: Citato in David Wood, Come non mangiare. Decostruzione e umanismo, in Jackie D. (rivista Animot. L'altra filosofia, n. 1, anno 1, giugno 2014), Graphe.it edizioni, p. 141 http://books.google.it/books?id=9STcAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA141: "Si dice che Derrida, durante la conferenza di Cerisy nell'estate del 1993, abbia affermato: «sono vegetariano nell'anima»."

“Non c'è fuori-testo.”

Origine: Da Della grammatologia, Jaca Book, Milano, 1969, p. 219.

Jacques Derrida Frasi e Citazioni

“L'animale ci guarda e noi siamo nudi davanti a lui. E pensare comincia forse proprio da qui.”

Origine: Da L'animale che dunque sono, p. 68 http://books.google.it/books?id=ELVYE31dgKMC&pg=PA68.

“Siamo tutti mediatori, traduttori.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della filosofia, traduzione di Daniele Ballarini e Anna Carbone, Gribaudo, 2018, p. 310. ISBN 9788858014165

“Non cedo mai alla tentazione di essere difficile per fare il difficile.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della filosofia, traduzione di Daniele Ballarini e Anna Carbone, Gribaudo, 2018, p. 313. ISBN 9788858014165

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Questa traduzione è in attesa di revisione. È corretto?

Jacques Derrida: Frasi in inglese

“The disciple must break the glass, or better the mirror, the reflection, his infinite speculation on the master. And start to speak.”

Jacques Derrida libro Writing and Difference

Cogito and The History of Madness, p.37 (Routledge classics edition)
Writing and Difference (1978)

“Amy Kofman: Have you read all the books in here?
Derrida: No, only four of them. But I read those very, very carefully.”

Jacques Derrida libro Specters of Marx

Derrida (2003 documentary), referring to his personal library
Specters of Marx (1993), 2000s

“In order to try to remove what we are going to say from what risks happening, if we judge by the many signs, to Marx's work today, which is to say also to his injunction. What risks happening is that one will try to play Marx off against Marxism so as to neutralize, or at any rate muffle the political imperative in the untroubled exegesis of a classified work. One can sense a coming fashion or stylishness in this regard in the culture and more precisely in the university. And what is there to worry about here? Why fear what may also become a cushioning operation? This recent stereotype would be destined, whether one wishes it or not, to depoliticize profoundly the Marxist reference, to do its best, by putting on a tolerant face, to neutralize a potential force, first of all by enervating a corpus, by silencing in it the revolt [the return is acceptable provided that the revolt, which initially inspired uprising, indignation, insurrection, revolutionary momentum, does not come back]. People would be ready to accept the return of Marx or the return to Marx, on the condition that a silence is maintained about Marx's injunction not just to decipher but to act and to make the deciphering [the interpretation] into a transformation that "changes the world. In the name of an old concept of reading, such an ongoing neutralization would attempt to conjure away a danger: now that Marx is dead, and especially now that Marxism seems to be in rapid decomposition, some people seem to say, we are going to be able to concern ourselves with Marx without being bothered-by the Marxists and, why not, by Marx himself, that is, by a ghost that goes on speaking. We'll treat him calmly, objectively, without bias: according to the academic rules, in the University, in the library, in colloquia! We'll do it systematically, by respecting the norms of hermeneutical, philological, philosophical exegesis. If one listens closely, one already hears whispered: "Marx, you see, was despite everything a philosopher like any other; what is more [and one can say this now that so many Marxists have fallen silent], he was a great-philosopher who deserves to figure on the list of those works we assign for study and from which he has been banned for too long.29 He doesn't belong to the communists, to the Marxists, to the parties-, he ought to figure within our great canon of Western political philosophy. Return to Marx, let's finally read him as a great philosopher."”

Jacques Derrida libro Specters of Marx

We have heard this and we will hear it again.
Injunctions of Marx
Specters of Marx (1993)

“Although Saussure recognized the necessity of putting the phonic substance between brackets ("What is essential in language, we shall see, is foreign to the phonic character of the linguistic sign" [p. 21]. "In its essence it [the linguistic signifier] is not at all phonic" [p. 164]), Saussure, for essential, and essentially metaphysical, reasons had to privilege speech, everything that links the sign to phone. He also speaks of the "natural link" between thought and voice, meaning and sound (p. 46). He even speaks of "thought-sound" (p. 156). I have attempted elsewhere to show what is traditional in such a gesture, and to what necessities it submits. In any event, it winds up contradicting the most interesting critical motive of the Course, making of linguistics the regulatory model, the "pattern" for a general semiology of which it was to be, by all rights and theoretically, only a part. The theme of the arbitrary, thus, is turned away from its most fruitful paths (formalization) toward a hierarchizing teleology:… One finds exactly the same gesture and the same concepts in Hegel. The contradiction between these two moments of the Course is also marked by Saussure's recognizing elsewhere that "it is not spoken language that is natural to man, but the faculty of constituting a language, that is, a system of distinct signs …," that is, the possibility of the code and of articulation, independent of any substance, for example, phonic substance.”

Jacques Derrida libro Positions

Origine: Positions, 1982, p. 21

“I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.”

"Circumfession." In Jacques Derrida, eds. G. Bennington & J. Derrida, trans. G. Bennington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 170

“No one can deny the suffering, fear, or panic, the terror or fright that can seize certain animals and that we humans can witness. … No doubt either, then, of there being within us the possibility of giving vent to a surge of compassion, even if it is then misunderstood, repressed, or denied, held at bay. … The two centuries I have been referring to somewhat casually in order to situate the present in terms of this tradition have been those of an unequal struggle, a war (whose inequality could one day be reversed) being waged between, on the one hand, those who violate not only animal life but even and also this sentiment of compassion, and, on the other hand, those who appeal for an irrefutable testimony to this pity. War is waged over the matter of pity. This war is probably ageless but, and here is my hypothesis, it is passing through a critical phase. We are passing through that phase, and it passes through us. To think the war we find ourselves waging is not only a duty, a responsibility, an obligation, it is also a necessity, a constraint that, like it or not, directly or indirectly, no one can escape. Henceforth more than ever. And I say “to think” this war, because I believe it concerns what we call “thinking.””

Jacques Derrida libro The Animal That Therefore I Am

The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it. Thinking perhaps begins there.
Specters of Marx (1993), The Animal That Therefore I Am, 1997

“The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.”

"The Ends of Man," Margins of Philosophy, tr. w/ notes by Alan Bass. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, 1982. (original French published in Paris, 1972, as Marges de la philosophie). p. 123

“Circumcision, that’s all I’ve ever talked about.”

"Circumfession." In Jacques Derrida, eds. G. Bennington & J. Derrida, trans. G. Bennington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 70

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