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Derrida and Zen: Desert and Swamp
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 64, Number 1, January 2014
- pp. 123-150
- 10.1353/pew.2014.0016
- Article
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By comparing D. T. Suzuki’s soku-hi 即非 (lit. immediately not) logic (A is A, because A is not-A), which is connatural with what might be called the “Japanese swamp/womb sensibility,” to the desert and nomadic concepts of Derrida’s deconstruction, this essay argues that, contrary to some critics’ views, Suzuki’s soku-hi logic accords with Derrida’s thinking.