Desistance of the Subject
by Emmanuel Biset
pp. 146-175 Issue 13 (7,1) – January-June 2020 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2020.7.1.7
Abstract
The aim of the present text is to reconstruct the question of the subject in Jacques Derrida. With this objective, first, I begin by showing how central it is to address Derrida’s relationship with structuralism and Heidegger’s thought. Second, I analyze the definition of the subject as self-affection and reappropriation. Finally, I consider the political stakes that arise from the inscription of an otherness that breaks the circle of auto-affection.