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Paper. Derrida 'word Study "the Text In The Violence Concept

Posted on:2008-07-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q Y HongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215992582Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Derrida made a concentration to construe the "writing conception"renewedly in his formerly representative work, Of Grammatology. Derrida heldthat, as influenced by the traditional phonocentfism and logocentrism, thehistorical tradition inclined to set the sound above the writing, so the writing layin an attenuated status continuously. Rousseau can be told as the first man whoput forwards the writing revivification systerm, whose writing theory affectedmany of the following language sccholars and philosophy ideologists.Rousseau took the writing as a kind of violence, which could pose a threatto the human socity and culture. Rousseau debased the writing as a supplementto the language in Of The Origin Of The Language. Then the anthropologist ofstructuralism, Levi-Strauss also discoursed the function of the writing violencein the Tristers Tropiques. The emergence of the writing, the performance of "awriting lesson", broke the Brazilian indigenous inhabitant's primitive naturestate, which seemed original and pure; made the writing as an enslaved tool. Soas a linguist, Saussure, who also drived the writing out of the philological field,regarded the writing as an external performance phenomenon of the language,and took it for futility and harmfulness as well. Obviously, Derrida disagreedwith Rousseau, Levi-Strauss and Saussure's standpoints to the language andwriting. Derrida againly proposed his own opinion on the question of writingconcept, based on the original theory before the appearance of letter, thus, he summarized and expanded the conception of the writing. Now, as Derridaproposed that writing designates not only the physical gestures of literalpictograpraphic or ideographic inscription, but also the totality of what makes itpossible; and also, beyond the signifying face, the signified face itself. Then heuesed his newly created words, differance, to interpret, writing becomes asystemic game of trace between difference and difference. Writing firstly is not arecord of pure spoken words, but a trace, before being into a language. Thetrace is linked by the symbols mutually, and each of them exists asdistinguished by another. No matter within the scope of the spoken words or theliteral words, each element as a symbol always alludes other non-present ones,we can't accuse the writing as an extenral violence invaded into the languagesystem under no reasons at the beginning.Consequently, Derrida strived to change the tradtitonal view thatdepreciated the writing, in the long run, to enhance the status of writing.Hefigured out that the writing plays an extremely profound role to the human socialorganization, the emotional world, cultural life and the ways of production.Nevertheless, the newly interpreted conception of writing also contains theprinciple of Derrida's deconstructionlism, Derrida proceeded with thenon-present factor, which being shaded by the history, and launched theconsideration of language and writing at a new vision.
Keywords/Search Tags:writing, violence, words, deconstruction, differance
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