Rethinking the notion of a 'higher law': Heidegger and Derrida on the Anaximander fragment

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dc.contributor.authorDe Ville, Jacques
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-18T08:59:48Z
dc.date.available2012-01-18T08:59:48Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe Anaximander fragment, in the readings of both Heidegger and Derrida, speaks of that which exceeds positive law. In this article, the author provides a detailed reading of Heidegger’s Der Spruch des Anaximander, showing how Heidegger relates this fragment to his thinking of Being, the latter having been ‘forgotten’ by metaphysics. Heidegger’s reading at the same time involves a contemplation of technology and of the ontological relation of beings to each other. Derrida’s reading of Heidegger’s Der Spruch highlights specifically those parts of Heidegger’s text where that which precedes Being’s gathering, Being’s disjoining or dissemination, is pointed to. This disjoining, Derrida contends, speaks of the gift of a day more ancient than memory itself and ties in closely with certain aspects of the thinking of Marx. Derrida’s focus on that which precedes Being is in turn related to his contemplation of the law or condition of possibility of technology and also of that which makes possible a relation to the other as other. This condition of possibility, or the gift of Being, which Heidegger’s text also speaks of, involves a ‘higher law’ which can serve as a ‘measure’ for the evaluation, interpretation and transformation of positive law.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDe Ville, J. (2009). Rethinking the notion of a 'higher law': Heidegger and Derrida on the Anaximander fragment. Law and Critique, 20: 59-78en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/301
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmittertrue
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsThis is the author postprint version of an article published by Springer. The file may be freely used, provided that acknowledgement of the source is given.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-008-9039-5
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectAdikiaen_US
dc.subjectAnaximanderen_US
dc.subjectBeingen_US
dc.subjectDeath driveen_US
dc.subjectDerrida, Jacquesen_US
dc.subjectGiften_US
dc.subjectHeidegger, Martinen_US
dc.subjectJusticeen_US
dc.subjectTechnologyen_US
dc.subjectTimeen_US
dc.titleRethinking the notion of a 'higher law': Heidegger and Derrida on the Anaximander fragmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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