The Play of the Self: The Self as the Gift of Différance

• Main Author: Rodriguez, Agustin Martin G.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: self; play; différance; Derrida; Hume
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol17/iss1/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1068/viewcontent/Budhi_2017.1_204_20Article_20__20Rodriguez.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay dialogues with Hume and Derrida on the possibility of articulating the reality of the self as a dynamism given by the play of différance. Applying Derrida’s conception of the gift to the understanding of the dynamism of the self, the essay will argue that the self is given by the play of...