I Rightly Pass For An Atheist.

Even If We're In A State Of Hopelessness, A Sense Of Expectation Is An Integral Part Of Our Relationship To Time. Hopelessness Is Possible Only Because We Do Hope That Some Good, Loving Someone Could Come. If That's What Heidegger Meant, Then I Agree With Him.

Psychoanalysis Has Taught That The Dead – A Dead Parent, For Example – Can Be More Alive For Us, More Powerful, More Scary, Than The Living. It Is The Question Of Ghosts.

As Soon As We Cease To Believe In Such An Engineer And In A Discourse Which Breaks With The Received Historical Discourse, And As Soon As We Admit That Every Finite Discourse Is Bound By A Certain Bricolage And That The Engineer And The Scientist Are Also Species Of Bricoleurs , Then The Very Idea Of Bricolage Is Menaced And The Difference In Which It Took On Its Meaning Breaks Down.

Learning To Live Ought To Mean Learning To Die - To Acknowledge, To Accept, An Absolute Mortality - Without Positive Outcome,or Resurrection, Or Redemption, For Oneself Or For Anyone Else. That Has Been The Old Philosophical Injunction Since Plato: To Be A Philosopher Is To Learn How To Die.

I Would Say That Deconstruction Is Affirmation Rather Than Questioning, In A Sense Which Is Not Positive: I Would Distinguish Between The Positive, Or Positions, And Affirmations. I Think That Deconstruction Is Affirmative Rather Than Questioning: This Affirmation Goes Through Some Radical Questioning, But It Is Not Questioning In The Field Of Analysis.