Chung Chin-yi

Phenomenology and Deconstruction: the Relation of Derrida's Deconstruction to the Entire Phenomenological Tradition Chung Chin-yi

This book relates the entire tradition of phenomenology to deconstruction. It relates the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Blanchot, Levinas, Ricoeur to Derrida's thought and argues that Derrida radicalizes the transcendental-empirical relation in order to rescue phenomenology from aporia. A rethinking of the entire metaphysical tradition, this work will be useful to those working in philosophy and literature who seek to understand the relation of the fields which are normally understood as distinct, phenomenology and deconstruction,where this book argues that this distinction is not as coherent as many argue. This book rethinks the transcedental-empirical relation and radicalizes the relation in order to address the aporias generated within phenomenology by a strict division between the two. Central to the discussion is the reading of the quasi-transcendental as the conditionality of phenomenology which occurs prior to it and enables its functioning. The a priori difference between  the transcendental and the empirical institutes the possibility of their distinction and the impossibility of their separation. While many scholars read Derrida as a materialist, this study argues that Derrida radicalized metaphysics to come to terms with its own conditions of possibility such as differance, the trace and iterability.