derrida and deconstructing metaphor

Metaphor and Philosophy: An Encounter with Derrida

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Derrida, Butler and an Education in Otherness

Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine.

Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors close off thinking, restricting interpretations and opinions to those of the negative kind? This paper considers the deleterious effects of destructive metaphors that cluster around pain. First, the metaphoric basis ...

Guerra ’ s interpolation using Derrida - Ruelle cascades

New results about Poisson-Dirichlet point processes and Derrida-Ruelle cascades allow us to express Guerra’s interpolation entirely in the language of Derrida-Ruelle cascades and to streamline Guerra’s computations. Moreover, our approach clarifies the nature of the error terms along the interpolation.

Deconstructing Monopoles and Instantons

We give a unifying description of the Dirac monopole on the 2-sphere S2, of a graded monopole on a (2, 2)-supersphere S2,2 and of the BPST instanton on the 4-sphere S4, by constructing a suitable global projector p via equivariant maps. This projector determines the projective module of finite type of sections of the corresponding vector bundle. The canonical connection ∇ = p◦d is used to compu...

Waiting for Justice: Benjamin and Derrida on Sovereignty and Immanence

WAITING BEFORE THE LAW IN KAFKA’S PARABLE “BEFORE THE LAW” WE SEE, quite famously, that the story’s protagonist (known only as “the man from the country”) is forced to wait before the gate of law for his whole life. The gatekeeper, whose only purpose seems to be to bar the man’s way, keeps him sitting on a stool just before the gate. As the man is dying from old age, he has this well-known exch...