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January 1981
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In order to present the guiding, fundamental problem of a documented philosophy, it is appropriate that one turn only to the documents. The texts must provide the basis for interpretation, and thus the fundamental question must be elicited from them. However, just how this question is included in the texts cannot always be univocally ascertained.
... In its essential formulation, this is the question concerning the being of intentionality.' 17 As Derrida himself puts it, the question of a 'transcendental logos' consists in whether it is possible to 'describe through worldly [mondains] concepts that by which there is a world, things and objects for us'. 18 Thus, how can the non-worldly, transcendental origin of our 'mundane' experience be conveyed using terms (including those of traditional metaphysics) whose figurative properties maintain a metaphorical reference to the world? ...
Reference:
Life as Metaphor in Derrida and Fink
January 1981
