The Seba library treats Philosopheme in 7 passages, across 1 author (including Derrida, Jacques).
no philosopheme will ever have been prepared to conform to it or translate it. This can only be written according to a deformation of the philosophical tympanum.
Derrida argues that the philosopheme is constitutively incapable of accommodating that which exceeds philosophical logos, making the deformation of philosophical form the only mode of inscription for what lies beyond it.
, Margins of Philosophy, 1982thesis
To determine, entirely against any philosopheme, the we wish at any price, for the purposes of discourse, to give a figure of speech to that which by definition cannot have one.
Derrida frames deconstruction as a movement operating against the philosopheme, exposing the irreducible figurality concealed within concepts that claim to transcend figuration.
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the entire system of concepts which invest the philosopheme "metaphor," burden it in delimiting it. And do so by barring its movement: just as one represses by crossing out.
Derrida demonstrates that the philosopheme 'metaphor' is itself delimited and repressed by the conceptual system it inhabits, exposing the self-undermining structure of philosophical conceptuality.
, Margins of Philosophy, 1982thesis
none of their names being a conventional and arbitrary X, the historical or genealogical tie of the signified concept to its signifier is not a reducible contingency.
Derrida establishes that the philosopheme cannot sever itself from its etymological and tropological inheritance, since the tie between concept and linguistic form is irreducibly genealogical rather than arbitrary.
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Metaphor, then, always carries its death within itself. And this death, surely, is also the death of philosophy.
The philosopheme 'metaphor,' as analyzed by Derrida, enacts philosophy's self-consumption — the tropic resource on which philosophy depends simultaneously threatens the philosophical enterprise with dissolution.
, Margins of Philosophy, 1982supporting
how are we to decipher figures of speech, and singularly metaphor, in the philosophic text? This question has never been answered with a systematic treatise, doubtless not an insignificant fact.
Derrida notes that the systematic analysis of figuration within philosophical discourse — the precondition for understanding the philosopheme's tropological constitution — has remained conspicuously absent.
, Margins of Philosophy, 1982supporting
the impossibility for a present, for the presence of a present, to present itself as a source: simple, actual, punctual, instantaneous.
In the context of Valéry's 'implex,' Derrida develops the broader argument that the philosopheme of presence is structurally compromised by temporal complexity, reinforcing the critique of self-grounding philosophical concepts.
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