A materialidade do índice como saída da clausura metafísica:  Derrida leitor de Husserl

Danilo Vilaça

doi:10.23925/2764-0892.2024.v3.n2.e69415

The materiality of the index as a way out of the metaphysical enclosure: Derrida as a reader of Husserl

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Danilo Vilaça Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG

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https://doi.org/10.23925/2764-0892.2024.v3.n2.e69415%20

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Derrida, Husserl, Deconstruction, Phenomenology, Language

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This article discusses Derrida's reading of Husserl in The Voice and the Phenomenon (1967) and in the introduction to the French translation of The Origin of Geometry (1962), highlighting the importance of the materiality of signs (Zeichen) for the understanding of language and idealizations. Derrida criticizes the privilege of interiority in transcendental metaphysics and explores the reference to exteriority, presupposed by Husserl's idea of index (Anzeichen), highlighting it as fundamental for the construction of senses (Sinn) and meanings (Bedeutung). There is, therefore, an inversion of the hierarchy of the philosophical tradition, as the concreteness of the supports of language appears to sustain the ideal field.

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Vilaça, D. (2025). The materiality of the index as a way out of the metaphysical enclosure: Derrida as a reader of Husserl. Geltung - Journal of Studies on the Origins of Contemporary Philosophy, 3(2), e69415 . https://doi.org/10.23925/2764-0892.2024.v3.n2.e69415

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