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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.

Learning To Live Ought To Mean Learning To Die - To Acknowledge, To Accept, An Absolute Mortality - Without Positive Outcome,or Resurrection, Or Redemption, For Oneself Or For Anyone Else. That Has Been The Old Philosophical Injunction Since Plato: To Be A Philosopher Is To Learn How To Die.

There Is No Rigorous And Effective Deconstruction Without The Faithful Memory Of Philosophies And Literatures, Without The Respectful And Competent Reading Of Texts Of The Past, As Well As Singular Works Of Our Own Time. Deconstruction Is Also A Certain Thinking About Tradition And Context. Mark Taylor Evokes This With Great Clarity In The Course Of A Remarkable Introduction. He Reconstitutes A Set Of Premises Without Which No Deconstruction Could Have Seen The Light Of Day.

Who Ever Said That One Was Born Just Once?

Surviving - That Is The Other Name Of A Mourning Whose Possibility Is Never To Be Awaited.