Jacques Derrida on Language and Identity

[renata]

Good explanation and examples. Thanks for posting!

[whatwilliswastalkingabout]

I’m glad you covered this. I actually enjoy reading left/postmodern authors. I’m never sufficiently convinced by any of it to change my ideological perspectives - in fact quite the opposite. I liken it to intellectual sparring. It’s a good workout.

[pablobarroso]

Deconstruction is the path to authenticity under many layers which were naturalized. That's the metaphysics of Derrida, focused on difference.

[theory_underground]

Stop – you're going to make me want to read Derrida 😬😭

[villevanttinen]

To me The gift of death is best book from Derrida, and highly recommendable. I think Nietzsche is the most prominent figure to Derrida, of course Heidegger too, and Freud, Husserl.

[edbrenegar]

Derrida seems to see language as an entity that defines us because it possesses us. However, if so, then language would never advance into new forms. Slang, for example, is the rejection of one's given language as fixed and obligatory for us. It is one of the problems that I have with AI and its grammar applications. It is telling us that language is fixed. So, while I appreciate Derrida's point, I don't believe the world is as pristine as he seems to think it should be.

[scottmcloughlin]

Here on YT, look up documentaries on French colonization of Algeria. That was brutal. Also look up the War for Algerian Independence. Brutal. You will learn a great deal about maps, calendars and French colonizers. Well worth the time.

[areyoutheregoditsmedave]

wow. i didn’t realize derrida was interesting. i always brushed him off because of his obscene lifestyle.

[lacanian_lifter]

Certainly, the pain of (inalienable) alienation in language can be amplified or worsened by bastardization of one’s mother tongue, yes? Every mirror introduces a discordance, but some mirrors are more discordant than others. But perhaps he is saying as much. Anyway, interesting video that I’m about to share with others.

[chief_tobias_]

"Imagine that you are a Jew..."

Nah, I'm good thanks.