Author: Gareth (Gareth Williams)

Gareth WilliamsUniversity of Michigan Volume 13, 2019 To liberate the question of being and history, one must, then, stop telling stories, which is to say that one must take a step beyond ontic history… One must, then, constantly and firmly maintain the distrust of historicism. Jacques Derrida In Hegel, a fragmentary text from 1938-39, Martin Heidegger re-visits...

Ludmila FerrariUniversity of Michigan Volume 13, 2019 To philosophize about being shattered is separated by a chasmfrom a thinking that is shattered Martin Heidegger, Pathmarks Where to locate the beginning of my intervention on a book where beginnings and ends are in question? Where everything plays out in the difference between the said and the unsaid? In...

Matías BascuñánEmory Universitymatias.bascunan@emory.edu Volume 13, 2019 And before the identity of the subject, what is ipseity? Jacques Derrida[2] In the second year of his last seminar, The Beast and Sovereign, Derrida is explicit about how sovereignty is at work in Heidegger’s thought, particularly with respect to Heidegger’s use of the word Walten, which Derrida reads as a self-emerging...

Geoffrey BenningtonEmory University Volume 13, 2019 “Un texte a toujours plusieurs âges, la lecture doit en prendre son parti” Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie, p. 150 What follows is a very modest contribution to an ongoing attempt to understand Derrida’s understanding of historicity in relation to Heidegger. It’s somewhat focused on the recently-published 1964-5 seminar Heidegger: The Question of...

Maddalena CerratoTexas A&M University Volume 13, 2019 To speak of a question of being is, by the simple elocution of the word being, to determine it, to determine metaphorically the cipher of non-metaphor. Determine it in what way? Well, for example, still by the linguistic determination to which one cannot fail to make appeal. And this linguistic determination...

Jorge Álvarez YágüezPF.D., Universidad complutense de Madrid Volume 13, 2019 1. Introducción: Los dos cursos de Derrida. Crítica de la subjetividad. Historicidad del Dasein e Historia presente. En este texto se examinarán, como el título acaso sugiera, dos cursos de Derrida, distanciados en diez años: Heidegger: la question de l´Être et l´Histoire (1964-65) y Théorie et pratique (1975)[1], si bien el centro...

Travis WilliamsUniversity of Michigan Volume 13, 2020 Introduction: The Problem of Language “We shall make no progress today,” Jacques Derrida announces to open the third session of “Heidegger: The Question of Being & History,” a course the French-Algerian philosopher presented at the École normale supériure on the rue d’Ulm in Paris between November 16, 1964 and...

Sergio Villalobos-RuminottUniversity of Michigan Volume 13, 2019 Often, when I see so many people in France suddenly interested in Heidegger’s Nazism, shouting loudly and accusing philosophers of having said nothing to them, I would like to ask them a very simple question: okay, let’s talk; have you read Sein und Zeit? Jacques Derrida[2] The ongoing publication of...

Patrick DoveIndiana university Volume 13, 2019 An interval must separate the present from what it is not in order for the present to be itself, but this interval that constitutes it as present must, by the same token, divide the present in and of itself, thereby also dividing, along with the present, everything that is thought...

Maddalena CerratoTexas a&m university Volume 14, 2020 To Ashley, Hannah, and Sarah The question about nationalism seems always inclined to prompt a certain philosophical prudery, as well as its flip side, i.e. a sort of transgressive fascination. There seems to be something incredibly trivial and philosophically shallow about the question of nationalism. Anything other than political...