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Jacques Derrida (5) - Metaphysics and Logocentrism/Phonocentrism

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Jacques Derrida (4.2) - Heideggerian Being (2/2)

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Jacques Derrida (4.1) - Heideggerian Being (1/2)

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Jacques Derrida (3.2) - The Trace (2/2)

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Jacques Derrida (3.1) - The Trace (1/2)

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Jacques Derrida (7.1) - Writing

This is the first of three videos in which we will be looking at writing. In this video, we cover the traditional conception of writing as secondary, derivative, and in general, a pretty pernicious, superfluous addition to speech. We follow a brief ‘history’ of writing which traces how writing came to be the villain that it is (or ‘was’ in Derrida’s time), before wrapping up with an interesting opposition Derrida makes between the Book and writing.
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00:00 Introduction
00:50 WRITING - THE TRADITIONAL CONCEPTION
00:58 Writing as secondary and derivative
03:40 Saussure: Writing as derivative and narr...

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Jacques Derrida (6) - Signification

Просмотров 190День назад

This video brings us to signification. We begin with a brief look at what Saussure had to say about signs and signification, before moving on to Derrida’s views on the two component parts of signs: the signified and the signifier. We close this video by looking at how what we have said about signification relates back to the concept of differance. Website: www.absurdbeing.com Twitter: twitter.c...

Jacques Derrida (5) - Metaphysics and Logocentrism/Phonocentrism

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Jacques Derrida (5) - Metaphysics and Logocentrism/Phonocentrism

Просмотров 364Месяц назад

In this video, we look at what metaphysics means for Derrida, including how it is connected to the notion of onto-theology. The second part of the video investigates one central theme in Derridean metaphysics: logocentrism/phonocentrism. Website: www.absurdbeing.com Twitter: absurdbeing Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=84430098 00:00 Introduction 00:47 METAPHYSICS 01:50 Metaphysics: Absu...

Jacques Derrida (4.2) - Heideggerian Being (2/2)

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Jacques Derrida (4.2) - Heideggerian Being (2/2)

Просмотров 300Месяц назад

This video is a direct continuation from the last one, in which we finish discussing Derrida’s thoughts on Heidegger’s Being. After wrapping this up, the second section is a critical reflection on the first, which aims to clarify the relation between these two thinkers in light of Derrida’s critique of Being. Website: www.absurdbeing.com Twitter: absurdbeing Patreon: patreon.com/use...

Jacques Derrida (4.1) - Heideggerian Being (1/2)

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Jacques Derrida (4.1) - Heideggerian Being (1/2)

Просмотров 540Месяц назад

This video investigates Derrida’s thoughts on Heidegger’s notion of Being. We begin by going over some of the key ideas pertaining to Being as outlined by Heidegger (through Derrida, of course) before looking at Derrida’s criticisms of Being. Website: www.absurdbeing.com Twitter: absurdbeing Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=84430098 00:00 Introduction 01:22 HEIDEGGERIAN BEING 01:48 The B...

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Jacques Derrida (3.2) - The Trace (2/2)

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In this video, we continue on from the last one, exploring the idea of the trace further by looking at some specific instances in which it appears. We begin with the trace as a characteristic feature of signification in general, before looking at the way it appears in experience, consciousness, and time. I wrap things up with a short section on why Derrida chose the specific word ‘trace’ to del...

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Jacques Derrida (3.1) - The Trace (1/2)

Просмотров 3052 месяца назад

This video is the first of two dealing with the Derridean concept of the trace. In this video, we will define the trace, while in the second, we will look at how the trace appears in reality. We kick off the video by looking at how it relates to another Derridean concept: differance, before investigating the two ideas that form the backbone of the trace: the other and the trace’s hiddenness/non...

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Jacques Derrida (2) - Differance

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In this video, we look at Derrida’s somewhat complicated notion of differance (spelt with an ‘a’). Beginning with its two aspects of distinction and delaying, we move on to examine differance in relation to presence, sameness, origin, difference, play, erasure, and disguise. I wrap the video up with a few suggestions concerning why Derrida felt the need to coin a new term to express this concep...

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Jacques Derrida (1) - Structuralism

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This video kicks off my RUclips series on the notorious French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The series will draw on the books Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference as well as the essay “Differance” with the goal of summarising and presenting the main ideas of this controversial thinker. We begin in this video by looking at structuralism and Derrida’s criticisms on this movement, positionin...

Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and Invisible (18)

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Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and Invisible (18)

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In this, the last video of this series, we move from ideas as they relate to the sensible, what MP calls “strict ideality”, to purely conceptual ideas, or “pure ideality”, which includes mathematics and language. The basic idea is that, although the latter appear removed from the body and the world, they still find their grounding in both. In other words, pure ideality still requires flesh, jus...

Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and the Invisible (17)

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Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and the Invisible (17)

Просмотров 2685 месяцев назад

This video brings us to the topic of mind or consciousness, which Merleau-Ponty calls “idea” to distinguish his thought from the way mind has traditionally been understood in philosophy. Essentially, “idea” will turn out to refer to an invisible “opaque zone” surrounding the visible “clearing” within flesh in which objects/qualia appear. The important thing about “ideas” is that they structure ...

Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and the Invisible (16)

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Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and the Invisible (16)

Просмотров 2885 месяцев назад

In this video, we open with a short section about flesh, emphasising a couple of clarifying points concerning this tricky concept, before moving into the second section in which MP looks to go beyond the individualising obsession of consciousness that has dominated much of Western philosophy. The final, and longest, section turns to intercorporeity investigating how other people appear in MP’s ...

Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and The Invisible (15)

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Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and The Invisible (15)

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In order to continue our interrogation into how objects appear the way they do, in this video, we refine our understanding of the flesh in terms of distance, grasping it in two aspects: the invisible milieu and body (as sensible for itself). We also look at Visibility to see how this enhances our understanding of flesh, before unpacking what MP calls the “narcissism” in vision, which introduces...

Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and the Invisible (14)

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Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and the Invisible (14)

Просмотров 4416 месяцев назад

In this video, we move into the fourth and final chapter: The Intertwining - The Chiasm. Trying to understand the close relationship that exists between us and the things we perceive, we begin by looking at the object seen, which reveals an invisible background or milieu (the ‘flesh’ of the thing) upon which the visible object appears, the latter appearing not as a positive thing, a thing ident...

Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and The Invisible (13)

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Merleau-Ponty - The Visible and The Invisible (13)

Просмотров 2606 месяцев назад

This first part of this video looks at language and MP’s argument that, rather than being an obstacle to an understanding of Being, because what is lived is “lived-spoken”, language is “the most valuable witness to Being”. The second part goes beyond fusion and essence by discussing the importance of establishing an appropriate distance within Being and reminds us of the importance of interroga...