The problem of genesis and structure as originarian dialectics

Derrida as a reader of Husserl's work

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reconstruct and analyze Derrida's readings of Husserl's oeuvre in the 1950s, as a philosophical system that imposes itself as a phenomenological program. For this purpose, we go back to his first writings that discuss and read the phenomenological founding father's works. Firstly, it is a question of positioning the problem of genesis and structure within phenomenology in its own right. Secondly, it is a question of elucidating how this initial problem unfolds in a dialectical tension of two poles that are enunciated as genesis and structure. The tension, even as a synthesis that unifies the poles, remains suspended. Finally, we hope to confront how Derrida obtains this interpretation that precedes différance and deconstruction, although this is itself the origin, the germ, the genesis of his central thought as constructed in 1967. The general purpose of this article is to understand the logical and historical development that is consolidated in Derrida's central thought.

Keywords: Derrida; Husserl; phenomenology; genesis; originary dialectic