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127 Differance and Identity KENNETH ITZKOWITZ State University of New York at Stony Brook The purpose of this essay is to think Derridean differance (with an a) in rela- tion to the Heideggerian conception of identity. That the two are related is sug- gested by the titles of the main texts under consideration: Derrida's "Differance" (with an a) and Heidegger's s Identity and Difference (with an e). Regarding the texts themselves, the essay "Differance" begins with a discussion of the verb "to differ" which, Derrida says, seems to differ from itself. On the one hand, it indicates difference as distinction, inequality, or discernibility; on the other, it ex- presses the interposition of delay, the interval of a spacing and tern- poralizing that puts off until 'later' what is presently denied, the possible that is presently impossible.' 1 It is significant that the verb "to differ" indicates, for Derrida, either difference ar the active differing as spacing/temporalizing. This account renders dif- ference as a passive which, as Derrida says later in the essay, "could never refer to differing as temporalizing or to differing as poleMOS."2 Hence difference signifies nonidentity but not the spacing/temporalizing which is, in contrast, "the order
Research in Phenomenology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1978
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