Textualized Body, Embodied Text: Derrida’s Linguistic Materialism

Lyngdoh, Shining Star

doi:10.1007/s40961-017-0124-8

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“…The discussion on writing in Derrida's project ascertains that the body cannot be conceptualized outside the thinking of writing and they are intertwined notions. Derrida's stance is that "writing and body are both placed on the margins of western philosophy and culture and considered as auxiliary to speech and mind/soul, respectively" (Lyngdoh, 2018). This line of argument in Derrida's discourse on body is not that of Merleau-Pontyian phenomenology of the body or that of Open Journal of Philosophy Husserlian transcendental phenomenology, but a deconstructive reading of the conventional privileging of mind over body, situating this dualism within what he considers as the larger discourse of speech-writing binary.…”

Section: Body And/as Textmentioning

confidence: 99%

Derrida and the Flesh of Metaphorical Language

Lyngdoh¹

2021

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In this paper, an attempt has been made to uncover the problem of metaphorical language in its relation to fleshliness and embodiedness as found in the critical reading of the texts of Derrida. The fleshliness of metaphorical language is embodied in our bodily activity in such a manner that sensible writing in the Derridean sense and corporeal body become intertwined notions. Metaphor and metaphorical language is a point of intersection between the body and sensible writing. This materiality/corporeality/fleshiness of metaphorical language can be understood as text. According to Derrida, writing and body have been viewed by the western philosophical tradition as exterior to speech and mind respectively, and he wants to deconstruct such hierarchical binaries. With this, writing (as archi-écriture) is no more a literary notion, but the generic form of symbolic practice, always already metaphorical and embodied. This paper is centered on the oeuvre of Derrida to uncover the thinking for the fleshliness of metaphorical language from within the texts of western philosophical tradition.

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Section: Body And/as Textmentioning

confidence: 99%