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Counterpoints
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CHAPTER 2
A Deconstructive Methodology
But is this possible? Of course it is not; that is why it is
the only possible invention of deconstruction.
- Caputo, 1997, p. 115
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A Deconstructive Methodology 1 5
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Silent Excesses
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A Deconstructive Methodology 2 1
Finally, the last one to whom a specter can appear, address itself, or
pay attention is a spectator as such. At the theater or at school. The
reasons for this are essential. As theoreticians or witnesses, specta-
tors, observers, and intellectuals, scholars believe that looking is suf-
ficient. Therefore, they are not always in the most competent position
to do what is necessary: speak to the specter. Herein lies perhaps,
among so many others, an indelible lesson of Marxism. There is no
longer, there has never been a scholar capable of speaking of any-
thing and everything while addressing himself to everyone and any-
one, and especially to ghosts. There has never been a scholar who
really, and as scholar, deals with ghosts. A traditional scholar does
not believe in ghosts - nor in all that could be called the virtual space
of spectrality. There has never been a scholar who, as such, does not
believe in the sharp distinction between the real and the unreal, the
actual and the inactual, the living and the non-living, being and non-
being ("to be or not to be," in the conventional reading), in the oppo-
sition between what is present and what is not, for example in the
form of objectivity, (p. 11)
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A Play of Silence
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Silence as Dijférance
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