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(2016) Derrida, the subject and the other, Dordrecht, Springer.
In Derrida the thinking of difference found in both Heidegger and Levinas becomes even more dynamic and volatile. Every possibility of founding or defining an approach to the other (text/person)—even as a groundless ground (Heidegger) or as a rupture (Levinas)—is discovered to be impossible or rather (im)possible. Translation becomes in Derrida an absolutely limitless operation which reveals not simply the difference between Being and being, or that between same and Other. Rather it reveals both of these, and another difference: the difference of différance. For Derrida, what remains as yet unthought in the work of both Heidegger and Levinas is the manner in which any determination, limitation or definition remains haunted by what it excludes:
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57758-0_4
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Foran, L. (2016). Derrida: life and death at the same time, in Derrida, the subject and the other, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 117-157.
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