Reading Derrida on Husserl's 'Origin of Geometry'

By zoom, 8 May 2024

For our next meeting we decided to read an excerpt from Derrida's book on Husserl's "Origin", to be followed in the meeting/s thereafter by some Benjamin, including his "Theses on the Philosophy of History". 

Pages 25-27, 107–117 (section VIII), and 133-153, of: Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry. An Introduction, trans. John P. Leavey, Jr (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989 [First Bison Printing]) 

French original 1962; Carr's translation of the Husserl piece, which we read ourselves a few weeks ago, is reprinted in this book as well. 

If you wish to receive further information, please get in touch with alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk. 

 Manchester Phenomenology Reading Group: Husserl's Crisis book as a whole

Our next meeting will be on 24 April at 5pm. After discussing at the last meeting the appendix of the Crisis book on the Origin of Geometry, the next session is meant to range across the whole of the text and highlight topics that have struck us as being of particular interest or problematical. It will conclude our engagement with Crisis, although there may be further meetings concerned with topics arising from it. 

If you wish to receive a zoom invite, please contact alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk.