| Wilde, bilingual edition New York, 1958 | To write 'Under erasure' is to write a word, cross it out, and then print both word and deletion |
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| From then on, to wrench the concept of the trace from the classical scheme which would derive it from a presence or from an originary non-trace and which would make of it an empirical mark, one must indeed speak of an originary trace or arche-trace | In his own words: The history of metaphysics, like the history of the West, is the history of these metaphors and metonymies |
Derrida finds the root of this metaphysics, which he calls "metaphysics of pure presence", in logos, which is internal to language itself.
15| David Wood and Robert Bernasconi | In other words, language is this movement] |
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| The word is inaccurate which itself is an inaccurate word , hence the cross, yet the word is necessary, hence the printing of the word |
In doing so, we will also explore the link between existentialism and.
| This " hidden" contradiction is trace | |
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| Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973 | Just to understand the context of Derrida's theory, one needs to be acquainted intimately with philosophers, such as, ——, , , , , , , , , , and others |
On the other hand, Derrida finds his Nietzschean hope his own word is "" in heterogeneity, contradictions, absence, etc.
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