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Damiano Sacco
The Weathering of the Trace
Agamben’s Presupposition of Derrida
The essay confronts the question of weathering by considering its excess to the conceptual dimension and relating it to what Jacques Derrida names (the) ‘trace’. The study of the ‘logic’ of weathering/the trace is confronted with Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Derrida’s project. Their two different conceptions of language, of its presuppositional structure, and of its order of ‘metaphysical presence’ are considered, in particular by turning to Werner Hamacher’s work on these and related matters.
Keywords: Agamben, Giorgio; Derrida, Jacques; Hamacher, Werner; Trace; Metaphysics of Presence
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The Weathering of the Trace
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Agamben’s Presupposition of Derrida
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Damiano Sacco
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The essay confronts the question of weathering by considering its excess to the conceptual dimension and relating it to what Jacques Derrida names (the) ‘trace’. The study of the ‘logic’ of weathering/the trace is confronted with Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Derrida’s project. Their two different conceptions of language, of its presuppositional structure, and of its order of ‘metaphysical presence’ are considered, in particular by turning to Werner Hamacher’s work on these and related matters.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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2020
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Agamben, Giorgio
Derrida, Jacques
Hamacher, Werner
Trace
Metaphysics of Presence
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© by the author
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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143
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166
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Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 143–66
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Cite as:
Damiano Sacco, ‘The Weathering of the Trace: Agamben’s Presupposition of Derrida’, in Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 143-66 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_07>