The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ............................................................... vii INTRODUCTION TruthandLanguage .................................................. 1 ONE • HeideggeronDisclosureandLanguage ............................ 11 Disclosure and Being-In in Sein und Zeit ............ 17 Twofold Concealment ........................................ 28 Language and Truth ........................................... 46 TWO • TheTransferenceofWriting .......................................... 58 On the Way to Writing ....................................... 59 Ricoeur on Text and Distanciation ...................... 72 Derrida on Writing and Displacement ................. 89 THREE • InventionsofMetaphor .............................................. 124 Heidegger’s Critique of Metaphor ...................... 125 Ricoeur on Living Metaphor ............................... 139 Derrida on the Effacement and Withdrawal of Metaphor ................................................... 154 FOUR • MimesisinMythandTranslation .................................... 181 Disclosure without Mimesis ................................ 182 Emplotment and the Invention of Comparables ... 196 Heterogeneity in Mimesis ................................... 218 vi Contents CONCLUSION • DisclosureandDisplacementinHermeneutics .................. 236 Disclosure and Displacement in Hermeneutics as Announcement ......................................... 236 Disclosure by Means of Displacement ............... 239 Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement .......... 241 Notes .................................................................................. 245 Bibliography ....................................................................... 269 Index .................................................................................. 285 ...