From Destruktion to deconstruction : a response to Moran
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Botha, Catherine Frances
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Philosophical Society of Southern Africa
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As a response to Moran's (1994) recommendation that Heidegger's Destruktion be extensively elaborated and critiqued, this paper suggests a way in which Heidegger's thinking can be more clearly understood as a search for how better to 'say' the destruction. By briefly tracing how Heidegger's thinking on the Destruktion repeatedly turns against itself throughout his writings, it is demonstrated that Heidegger does indeed revise the notion by abandoning the term in his later writing; to replace it first with the concept of 'overcoming', and subsequently with the notion of Verwindung. This self-critical reworking of the Destruktion is evident in his turning towards these concepts; which is taken up by Derrida's deconstruction in its simultaneous turning towards and away from Heidegger's Destruktion.
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Destruktion, Verwindung
Sustainable Development Goals
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Botha, CF 2008, 'From Destruktion to deconstruction : a response to Moran', South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 52-68. [http://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?jid=211]