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James Smith offers this summary of one strand of Derrida's essay, "Violence and Metaphysics": "since philosophy is 'primarily Greek,' 'it would not be possible to philosophize, or to speak philosophically, outside this medium.' . . . But could one conceive philosophy otherwise? This, Derrida will show, is precisely what Levinas suggests - and he outlines the possibility of another philosophy by exposing philosophy to its other: the Hebrew. The Hebraic thought of the prophetic 'summons us to a dislocation of the Greek logos.' . . . Thus, Derrida reads Totality and Infinity as an exercise in exposing philosophy to its other, exposing the Greek to teh Jew. But again, this is a constructive project: It is not about abandoning the Greek. 'Nothing can so profoundly solicit the Greek logos - philosophy - than this irruption of the totally-other; and nothing can to such an extent reawaken the logos to its origin as to its mortality, its other.'"
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 05:54 PM
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