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Article: MODERNITY AND INTENTIONAL HISTORY: EDMUND HUSSERL, JACOB KLEIN, AND JACQUES DERRIDA
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- Philosophy Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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To bring together the work of Jacob Klein and Jacques Derrida, as this essay does, may well seem unexpected.1 One reason to do so, the most obvious, is that both Klein and Derrida published interpretations of Husserl's late fragment Die Ursprung der Geometrie, "The Origin of Geometry."2 They were some of the few to attend to this work in print during their own lifetimes, and for both, Husserl's late, vexed fragment proved central to understanding their own projects.
Why this coincidence takes on more than merely historical importance only really starts to become plain, however, when another less obvious reason for attending to Klein and Derrida in tandem is grasped. Jacob Klein assigned ...