Descripción: In 1971, American linguist/social activist Noam Chomsky squared off against French philosopher Michel Foucault on Dutch television ... the program was entitled 'Human Nature: Justice Vs. Power' and offered sharp contrasts between the more traditional view of 'human nature' and what would become a postmodernist perspective ... Chomsky, following a rationalist lineage going back to at least Plato, b...

Descripción: Video di prova. Originariamente postato da hiperf289. Conferenza di Michel Foucault del 1983 sulla nascita della società disciplinare e sul suo libro più famoso, Sorvegliare e Punire.

Descripción: Video di prova. Originariamente postato da hiperf289. Conferenza di Michel Foucault del 1983 sulla nascita della società disciplinare e sul suo libro più famoso, Sorvegliare e Punire. Parte II

Descripción: Derrida makes the distinction between the 'who' one loves - their singularity - and the 'what' - the specific qualities of the beloved; then, he states that philosophy's most basic question - 'What is Being?' promotes the same sort of differential reflection: "is Being someone or something?" Fidelity, he states, is always threatened by this division - between the desire to be faithful to the other...

Descripción: In November, 2002, Derrida was part of a conference in Toronto entitled 'Other Testaments' ... here, in audio format, he focuses on the connection between deconstruction and the changing nature of Christianity - especially in contemporary times ... the notion of Christianity's 'unpredictability,' that it has the ability to 'transform' itself could place it closer to Derrida's approach... Christian...

Descripción: Martin Heidegger's 1927 magnum opus 'Being and Time' ('Sein und Zeit') is regarded as a twentieth-century philosophical classic... such notions as temporality, angst, authenticity, resolve, The One, The Other, being-toward-death, everydayness, etc., became standard verbiage in later Existentialism... here, philosopher Andrew Benjamin, literary critic George Steiner, and Hannah Arendt biographer El...

Descripción: Here, Derrida makes an important distinction between the idea of "pure forgiveness" and the more strategic notion of "reconciliation" ... he regards the former as "Christian" and its practice "impossible," while deeming the latter politically and socially valuable ... in the second clip, Derrida semi-seriously advises those who feel that the sit-com 'Seinfeld' is an example of deconstruction, to "...

Descripción: Derrida offered extended audio comments regarding his unique, somewhat Kierkegaardian notion of prayer (as recounted in his 1991 work 'Circumfession') at the 2002 Toronto conference, 'Other Testaments'... Prayer, Derrida contends, is an 'absolutely secret' act though it also involves 'common ritual (and) coded gestures' ... it is fundamentally 'childish' and God is regarded as both a 'harsh, just'...

Descripción: Heidegger's famous Black Forest cabin at Todtnauberg (where he wrote many of his key works, including 'Being and Time') is shown here by his son Hermann, commented upon by literary critic George Steiner in terms of its influence, and remembered by acclaimed German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer... Gadamer, recalling visits to the cabin, felt that Heidegger looked like a rural Black Forest residen...

Descripción: In this revealing clip, Derrida explains how the perceived "aggression" of deconstruction can create a "polemical" atmosphere which he feels does not characterize him ... this promotes a "fear" of certain consequences that he doesn't recognize when writing, but become present when he falls asleep, "terrifying" him ... then, a "panic" in his "subconscious" results, rendering his writings "criminal"...

Descripción: In this audio excerpt from the 2002 Toronto conference ('Other Testaments') Derrida critiques Heidegger's notions of 'revealability' ('Offenbarkeit') and 'revelation' ('Offenbarung')... Heidegger argues that the possibility for revelation is always preceded ontologically (and non-logically) by the more fundamental notion of revealability... for Derrida this ordering is not 'appropriate' - no one, ...

Descripción: Here, at the 2002 Toronto 'Other Testaments' conference, Derrida responds in audio format to a question about his supposed atheism... 'paradoxically,' he states, the 'true believer experiences atheism' because the object of prayer - God - is 'beyond' the usual metaphysical notions of 'being' (e.g., presence, essence, ouisa) - thus, to believe in that which by definition is 'beyond being' implies b...

Descripción: Toward the end of his life, Freud was asked by the BBC to provide a brief statement about his decades-long career in psychoanalysis... here, in English, he offers a succinct overview... The "Freud Conflict and Culture" web site said this: "On December 7, 1938, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) came to Freud's Maresfield Gardens home in London to record a short message. By this time his...

Descripción: In this audio clip, Jacques Derrida discusses the 'necessity' of a deconstructive approach, remarking that any desire for total presence ('the metaphysics of presence') can never be achieved and would actually be equivalent to 'death' -- the notion of the Platonic 'Good' (the metaphysical end of Plato's system as described in the sixth book of the 'Republic') would be coextensive with death itself...

Descripción: Here, Derrida discusses the Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus, linking ideas such as Echo's repeating of Narcissus' last words (in whatever he spoke), to the non-transparency, the 'blindness' that he feels characterizes all speech ... however, Derrida maintains that Echo is able to 'appropriate' Narcissus' language in such a way that it becomes hers, in a sense, subverting Hera's punishment... he f...

Descripción: Whether these clips are authentic has been debated, but, they a remarkable look at Nietzsche's 'last days' in Weimar in the summer of 1899 (the photo stills by Hans Olde are common) ... Nietzsche died on August 25, 1900 from pneumonia, eleven years after his well-chronicled mental breakdown in Turin...

Descripción: In this intriguing overview of his famous notion of the 'trace,' Derrida critiques the long-standing philosophical 'authority of the question' by examining the conditions for questioning itself ... he argues that presence always presupposes 'Otherness' (a 'primary affirmation') which embodies a 'return'...to a 'different temporality older than the past and beyond the future' - a different 'past,' ...

Descripción: Heidegger's philosophy is largely concerned with the historical role of post-Socratic Greek thought and the oblivion of Being - Heidegger always favored the fragments and poetic sayings of the pre-Socratics ... finally, in 1962, he traveled to Greece and is here shown at the Acropolis and at Delphi ... however it was at Delos (not shown) where he truly felt the "presence of that which grants Being...

Descripción: In these two clips from Ken McMullen's improvisational 'Ghost Dance' (1983), Jacques Derrida describes an 'unnatural' ghostly haunting whereby the dead are taken into us, but they are not internalized as they would be under more 'normal' circumstances (a psychoanalytic view of mourning) - he labels this as 'terrifying;' in the second excerpt, Derrida recounts his 1982 arrest in Czechoslavakia on t...

Descripción: Heidegger's influence on French existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is well-chronicled - as the clip states, Sartre's main work 'Being and Nothingness' (1943) was conceived as a companion piece to Heidegger's 'Being and Time' (though Heidegger would later repudiate Sartre's view, labeling it 'metaphysics'). Sartre, seen here with long-time companion Simone de Beauvoir, was a key figure in rev...