Derrida: “What Comes Before The Question?” at (anything but boring) Boring Books

Derrida: “What Comes Before The Question?”

In this intriguing overview of his famous notion of the ‘trace,’ Derrida critiques the long-standing philosophical ‘authority of the question’ by examining the conditions for questioning itself … he argues that presence always presupposes ‘Otherness’ (a ‘primary affirmation’) which embodies a ‘return’…to a ‘different temporality older than the past and beyond the future’ - a different ‘past,’ ‘present,’ or ‘future’ … Derrida seeks a ‘rapport’ with this Otherness that allows for any conventional understanding of presence or the present … such rapport, he feels, would promote a different experience with the past or future ……