Two Regimes of Logocentrism

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ID3774583
AuthorsGiovanni Menegalle (0009-0009-1294-9022)
Year2023
Volume28
Issue6
Pages50-70
Publication date2023-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAngelaki (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0969725x.2023.2270355
OpenAlexW4388735587
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

This article offers a reconstruction of Derrida's critique of Leibniz. It suggests that in attempting to fit Leibniz into his conception of the history of metaphysics and the all-embracing notion of logocentrism that underwrites it, Derrida presupposes two regimes of logocentrism: one subjective, the other theological. Subsumed into this second mode, Derrida casts Leibniz as a progenitor of structuralism and the new sciences and technologies of information in order to expose their logocentric foundations. However, in doing so, he ends up sidelining the aspect of Leibniz's ideas that anticipates the specificity of the new epoch of writing he claims to historicise. The article goes on to argue that to grasp this specificity one must look beyond the "expressivist" schema of exterior representation, which Derrida draws from Husserl's theory of meaning, and instead look to Leibniz's own formal-combinatorial concept of expression, which exceeds Derrida's critical framework

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