The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II: 2 (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida) by Derrida Jacques

Author:Derrida, Jacques [Derrida, Jacques]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-09-14T23:00:00+00:00

1. Martin Heidegger, Die Frage nach dem Ding: Zu Kants Lehre von den Transzendentalen Grundsätzen (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1962); Qu’est-ce qu’une chose?, trans. Jean Reboul and Jacques Taminiaux (Paris: Gallimard, 1971); trans. W. B. Barton, Jr., and V. Deutsch as What Is a Thing? (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1968).

2. “Das Ding,” in Vorträge und Aufsätze (Pfullingen: Günther Neske Verlag, 1954), pp. 157–79; trans. Albert Hofstadter as “The Thing,” in Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), pp. 163–80.

3. Ibid., p. 158 [p. 163].

4. See sessions 3 and 4 above.

5. Ibid., p. 170 [p. 175]; during the session, Derrida added: “It is the thing that makes nearness possible.”

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Meister Eckhart, quoted in ibid., p. 169 [p. 174].

9. Ibid., p. 170 [p. 176].

10. During the session, Derrida added: “Gewässer, water as a whole; Gestein, stone in general, the set of everything that is stony; Gewächs, everything that grows, the set of what grows, and Getier, the set of animals.” On the following line, he added “The important thing is Ge-, the gathering.”

11. Ibid., p. 171 [p. 176]; Derrida’s emphasis.

12. During the session, Derrida added: “The nothing is without being a being, without being something, and it is this being of the nothing, and so this difference between Being and beings, that passes via the nothing, that is guarded in this Ark that is death. Death is what guards the Being of beings.”

13. During the session, Derrida added: “It is in death that lies the secret of Being itself, the difference between Being and beings.”

14. During the session, Derrida added: “Presencing, Being, is here too in a sense one cannot call active, because when you say active you are in the opposition of active to passive, energeia/dunamis, etc., and you are already off on a different track. But you can see that west, wesen, etc., mark a modality of Being that is not simply the static modality of beings. Being happens [se produit] as Being.”

15. Ibid., p. 171 [p. 176]. During the session, Derrida added: “You see the relation here between the experience of death as such, reserved for man, and the question of Being, the difference between Being and beings. It is the same thing to be mortal and to be able to ask the question ‘what is the Being of beings?’ or ‘what is the thingness of the thing?’ ”

16. During the session, Derrida added: “What does pouvoir [power, being-able] mean here? Even the word pouvoir (Können, Vermögen), far from giving us the key to a door that would have access to the Being of beings, this power is itself defined by the Being of beings. Power, here, this singular power here appears as power on the basis of the experience of the difference between Being and beings.”

17. During the session, Derrida added: “This is not the sovereignty of God, it is not the sovereignty of a king or a head of state, but a sovereignty more sovereign than all sovereignty.”

18. During the session, Derrida added: “and what interests me too is the chain linking walten, können, vermögen.

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