“1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function.” MeanPlayTermDifferencesActivityElementsConcernFunctionProductionsActiveRelatedOppositionPassiveSystematicIntervalsIndecisionPassivitySpacing Author:Jacques Derrida
“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.” MeanHas BeensDiesAcceptingOughtAbsolutesPhilosophicalOneselfPhilosopherRedemptionAcknowledgeOutcomesMortalityResurrectionPlatoPositive Outcome Author:Jacques Derrida
“Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.” MeanTermSurvivalConventionalAfter Death Author:Jacques Derrida
“The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.” WritingMeanFormDiesBitsImpossiblePaperAmbitionFundamentalsStructureImmortalityExitUnchanging Author:Jacques Derrida
