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DERRIDA ON BEING AS PRESENCE - DAVID A WHITE GE...

Jacques Derrida's extensive early writings devoted considerable attention to being as presence
the reality underlying the history of metaphysics. In Derrida on Being as Presence: Questions
and Quests  David A. White develops the intricate conceptual structure of this notion by close
exegetical readings drawn from these writings. White discusses cardinal concepts in Derrida's
revamping of theoretical considerations pertaining to language-signification  context  negation
iterability-as these considerations depend on the structure of being as presence and also as
they ground deconstructive reading. White's appraisal raises questions invoking a range of
problems. He deploys these questions in conjunction with thematically related quests that arise
given Derrida's conviction that the history of metaphysics  as variations on being as presence
has concealed and skewed vital elements of reality. White inflects this critical apparatus
concerning being as presence with texts drawn from that history-e.g.  by Plato  Aristotle 
Bacon  Hume  Kant  Whitehead. The essay concludes with a speculative ensemble of provisional
categories  or zones of specificity. Implementing these categories will ground the possibility
that philosophy in general and metaphysics in particular can be pursued in ways which
acknowledge the relevance of Derrida's thought when integrated with the philosophical
enterprise as traditionally understood.

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