The editors return and deconstruct integralism by taking on the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida, but in the end discover they were metaphysicians all along. Along the way, the discussion veers into Nietzsche, 19th century interpretations of Bach, internet meme culture, vaccinations and the anti-vax movement, Jacob Klein, David Foster Wallace, and so much more.

Bibliography

Roland Barthes, Elements of Semiology, 1916;
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, 1973;
Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” in Writing and Difference, 1967;
Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, 1967;
Jacques Derrida, On the Name, 1995;
Martin Heidegger “Nietzsche’s Word: God is Dead” (1943) in Off the Beaten Track, 2002;
Joshua Kates, Fielding Derrida: Philosophy, Literary Criticism, History, and the Work of Deconstruction, 2008;
Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, 1968 [Reprint: New York: Dover, 1992];
Jacob Klein, “Phenomenology and the History of Science,” 1940;
Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, 1962;
E. Milco, “Michel Foucault and Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue on the Basis and Consummation of Intelligibility,” 2013;
Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,” 1896;
Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, 1916;
Michel Serres, “The Algebra of Literature,” 1979;
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. “Charles de Koninck, Jacob Klein, and Socratic Logocentrism”;
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922.

Music:

Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne, Partita No. 2 BWV 1004

performed by Hillary Hahn;
arranged for piano by J. Brahms for Left hand performed by Daniil Trifonov;
Bach-Busoni performed by Benjamin Grosvenor;
arranged for piano by J. Brahms performed on harpsichord by Jean Rondeau;

Header Image: Franz Rösel von Rosenhof, Wolf und Fuchs.

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