Browsing by Subject "Derrida"
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Deference and diffèrance: judicial review and the perfect gift
(2006)The highest courts in both Canada and South Africa have expressed themselves in favour of an approach of deference as respect in the review of administrative action. The notion of deference as respect derives from ... -
A philosophical critique of the social grant system in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)The purpose of this article is to undertake a philosophical reflection of the South African social grant system from the perspective of the gift as presented by Marcel Mauss, Alasdair John Milbank, Jean-Luc Marion and ... -
The poet, the philosopher and the birds: narrative, self and repetition in Richard Murphy
(Routledge, 2011)This article draws on Richard Murphy's memoirs, The Kick (2002. London: Granta) and his poem 'Wittgenstein and the birds', from his Collected poems 1952-2000 (2001. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, p. 6) to try ... -
Spectres of YHWH: some hauntological remarks on Lamentations 3
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Biblical Studies, 2012)In this article, the author offers a brief hauntological perspective on Lamentations 3. After discussing some of the rudiments of the relevant type of Derridean philosophy of history/literature, the hauntological layers ... -
The world of spirits and the respect for nature: towards a new appreciation of animism
(2006)The belief in spirits has diminished in Western thought since Enlightenment. But it has not disappeared totally. In the subconscious of people and in different subcultures and also in literature and art it is still alive. ...
