SUPPLÉMENT IR ESATIES METAFIZIKA J. DERRIDA GRAMATOLOGIJOJE
SUPPLÉMENT AND METAPHYSICS OF PRESENCE IN J. PERRIDA’S OF GRAMMATOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Derrida’s deconstructive read¬ing of the concept of supplément in the corpus of Rousseau works. Rousseau uses the concept in the context of such themes as nature/culture, speech/writing, heteroerotism/autoerotism, etc. According to Derrida, these binary oppositions are hierarchical, i.e. the first element is given priority over the second one. The denounced element is treated as a ‘danger ous supplement’ (replacement/addition) endangering the natural and original self-presence. the point of Derrida’s reading is to show that it is not the supple¬ment that mediates the presence as rouseau thought, but it is the chain of supplements that produces the effect of a presence that has never existed. Keywords: supplément, writing, metaphysics of presence.

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