I Was Wondering Myself Where I Am

If You Read Philosophical Texts Of The Tradition, You'll Notice They Almost Never Said 'i,' And Didn't Speak In The First Person. From Aristotle To Heidegger, They Try To Consider Their Own Lives As Something Marginal Or Accidental. What Was Essential Was Their Teaching And Their Thinking. Biography Is Something Empirical And Outside, And Is Considered An Accident That Isn't Necessarily Or Essentially Linked To The Philosophical Activity Or System.

Contrary To What Phenomenology- Which Is Always Phenomenology Of Perception- Has Tried To Make Us Believe, Contrary To What Our Desire Cannot Fail To Be Tempted Into Believing, The Thing Itself Always Escapes.

All Sentences Of The Type 'deconstruction Is X' Or 'deconstruction Is Not X', A Priori Miss The Point, Which Is To Say That They Are At Least False. As You Know, One Of The Principal Things At Stake In What Is Called In My Texts 'deconstruction', Is Precisely The Delimiting Of Ontology And Above All Of The Third-person Present Indicative: S Is P.

I Believe In The Value Of The Book, Which Keeps Something Irreplaceable, And In The Necessity Of Fighting To Secure Its Respect.

There Is Nothing Outside Of The Text. [fr., Il N'y A Pas De Hors-texte.]