Speech and SystemIn this investigation, creative writing and philosophy are shown to be specific types of language games, distinct from speech as used in communicative interaction between individuals. The author deals with thinking, speech and systems, respectively. (I) Thinking is understood as a soliloquy preceding any kind of creative activity and any kind of writing. The author analyses thinking as a subject's listening to its own voice, with a split between "I" and "me", close to Derrida's notion of "difference" as a condition for the production of meaning. (II) Analyzing - with reference to Benveniste, Austin and Searle - what speech is, the author deduces the so-called "pragmatic subject" (in contrast to the first section's reflective). In its elementary speech act the pragmatic subject does constitute itself in rudimentary ways. (III) In dealing with the product of reflective activity, the author finds the so-called textual inconsistence or logical aporias inherent in any logical or pseudo-logical system to be in line with Goedel's incompleteness theorems, and he rejects the tendency to use deconstruction to understand these aporias, as is usual in Western metaphysics. - The author's philosophical position is closest to that of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida, but on crucial issues he advances his own ideas on the relationship between speech and writing, also establishing a criticism of metaphysics that may be more radical than what has previously been developed. |
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Contents
General Introduction | 11 |
3 Thinking and Speech | 17 |
5 Conclusion | 25 |
3 The Difference Between the Reflective and the Pragmatic Capacity of | 31 |
2 The Reflective and the Pragmatic Subject | 41 |
Intentionality and Creative Production | 50 |
3 NonIntentionality and Unconsciousness | 60 |
3 Translation as Method | 74 |
Identity Thinking and Speech | 135 |
2 Constitution of the Subject in Language | 141 |
4 Richard Ohmann and the Lack of an Illocutionary Component in Literary | 149 |
3 Derridas Deconstruction of the First Investigation | 162 |
4 Deconstruction as Suspension of Theory | 172 |
2 Intentionality in Austins SpeechAct Theory | 180 |
3 Absence Difference and Reiteration in Derrida | 184 |
4 SpeakerIntentionality and SpeechActIntentionality | 200 |
4 Thinking and Deception | 88 |
3 The Diary of a Seducer and Unhappy Love | 106 |
3 The Principle of Generalized Writing and its Limitations | 119 |
Speech and Thinking Enunciation and Reflectivity | 122 |
3 Writing as Playing | 128 |
5 Metaphysics at Every Turn | 206 |
2 Oedipus the King as Example of Construction of Meaning | 219 |
3 The Construction of Meaning and Truth | 226 |
2 The System Ultimately Cannot Justify Itself | 232 |
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