Dissertation Abstract

Rather than reading these texts as a critique of Heidegger we show how they can be understood as an extension of our Heideggerian problematic: the notion of ...
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Dissertation Abstract

The Structuration of Phenomenality: Temporality, Trace, Event (with Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy) This thesis begins with Heidegger’s theory of temporality in part II of Sein und Zeit. While reading it as a novel form of transcendental philosophy in the strict sense, we show, contrary to commentators, that it describes multiple temporalisations and thus multiple notions of presence. The most original notion of presence, however, contains an a-phenomenal and relational core, and this amounts to describing a structuration of phenomenality. In a next step, we examine early texts of Jacques Derrida where, in analyzing Husserl and Heidegger, the author first sets out the idea of a metaphysics of presence. Rather than reading these texts as a critique of Heidegger we show how they can be understood as an extension of our Heideggerian problematic: the notion of différance and of the written trace supply us with a particularly linguistic and writerly description of the archaic structuration. This also allows us both to respond in a novel fashion to open questions immanent to Sein und Zeit, and to suggest a previously unseen distinction running through Derridean deconstruction. The grammatological moment in deconstruction is a response to the question of temporality. Finally, we show how the recently popular discussion of the event can also be read as a thematisation of phenomenality, and specifically in the theory of Jean-Luc Nancy, how such a theory can avoid the facile metaphysical concepts of presence. By supplementing Nancy’s distensive event with a series of explicit historical glosses we show how it sketches out an original event-conception quite compatible with our interest in the structuring of phenomenality.