DECONSTRUCTION STRATEGY OF INTERPRETATION OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Th e article is devoted to Derrida’s concept of deconstruction of the history of metaphysics in its relation to the Heidegger’s destruction. Heidegger’s destruction is a necessary part of his ontology. As Derrida discusses this ontology as a form of protection of the metaphysics, he essentially transforms Heidegger’s destruction. Nevertheless he maintains the position of the reduction of the philosophy’s history to the metaphysics of presence’s history. If Heidegger’s destruction is a conceptual, Derrida uses verbal means of deconstruction and some ideas of semiological discourse analysis. Deconstruction is not theory; but practice, «art», which, in contrast to the Aristotelian τέχνη, does not have its own way to be the truth. As a particular case the article considers Derrida’s deconstruction of Aristotelian reasoning about time as a starting point for subsequent metaphysical conceptions of time. Refs 8.

Keywords:

deconstruction, destruction, history of philosophy, metaphysics of presence, discourse, writing, time, Aristotle, Heidegger, Derrida