Derrida and The Literature of Singularity

Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 491 - 504, 30.12.2018

Sadık Erol Er , Onur Varolun

https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.510497

Abstract

Literature that can be found everywhere in Jacques Derrida’s writing forms the backbone of his whole corpus from democracy to law, from politics to ethics, from philosophy to art. He uses literature as a weapon against the domination of philosophy where main philosophical figures like Plato and Socrates who exclude literature had a share of this literary work. Many interpreters of Derrida sees him not a philosopher but a literary writer and this claims are both fair (from the traditional philosophical concept) and unfair (from the era where reaching the absolute is impossible). In this sense, recent years there have been various efforts to engage Jacques Derrida's conception of literature. In this work, because of literature is the "experience of singularity" for Derrida, we will try to deal with Derrida and literature relations through the singularity. 

Keywords

Derrida, literature, philosophy, singularity, deconstruction

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