References for Theme: Derrida Citations
- Derrida, Jacques
- Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry. An Introduction (1989)
(p.163) how does the intrapsychically constituted structure arrive at an intersubjective being of its own as an ideal object wh ich , as "geometrical ,"is anything but a real psychic object, even though it has arisen psychically?Let us reflect. The original being-itself-there , in the immediacy [Aktualitiät] of its first production, i.e. , in original "self-evidence,"results in no persisting acquisition at all that could have objective existence . Vivid self-evidence passes-though in such a way that the activity immediately turns into the passivity of the flowingly fading consciousness of what-has-just-now-been . Finally this "retention" disappears, but the "disappeared" passing and being past has not become nothing for...
- Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry. An Introduction (1989)
(p.40) Undoubtedly , Husserl ' s production (Leistung) also involves a stratum of receptive intuition . But what matters here is that this Husserlian intuition, as it concerns the ideal objects of mathematics, is absolutely constitutive and creative: the objects or objectivities that it intends did not exist before it; and this " before" of the ideal objectivity marks more than the chronological eve of a fact: it marks a transcendental prehistory. In the Kantian revelation, on the contrary, the first geometer merely becomes conscious that it suffices for hismathematical activity to remain within a concept that it already possesses..
- Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry. An Introduction (1989)
(p.46) Husserl's task is thus all the more hazardous, and his freedom with respect to empirical knowledge is more difficult to justify at first sight. In fact we now wonder about the sense of the production of geometrical concepts before and this side of the Kantian "revelation," before and this side of the constitution of an ideally pure and exact space and time. Since every ideal objectivity is produced by the act of a concrete consciousness (the only starting point for a transcendental phenomenology), every ideal objectivity has a history which is alwaysalready announced in that consciousness, even If we know nothing of its determined content
- Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry. An Introduction (1989)
(p.64) When Husserl farther on devotes a few lines to the production and evidence of geometrical sense as such and its own proper content, he will do so only after having determined the general conditions of its Objectivity and of the Objectivity of ideal objectivities. Thus, only retroactively and on the basis of its results can we illuminate the pure sense of the subjective praxis which has engendered geometry. The sense of the constituting act can only be deciphered in the web of the constituted object. And this necessity is not an external fate, but an essential necessity of intentionality. The primordial sense of every intentional act is only its...
- Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry. An Introduction (1989)
(p.76) To constitute an ideal object is to put it at the permanent disposition of a pure gaze . Now, before being the constituted and exceeded auxiliary of an act which proceeds toward the truth of sense, Iinguistic ideality is the milieu in which the ideal object settles as what is sedimented or deposited . But here the act of primordial depositing is not the recording of a private thing, but the production of a common object, i.e., of an object whose original owner is thus dispossesed . Thus language preserves truth, so that truth can be regarded in the henceforth nonephemeral illumination of its sojourn ; but...
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