Derrida e l'infinito

Derrida’s deconstruction entails the appearance of a structure of infinity, as infinite divisibility and as infinite referral, both inscribed in the concept of différance. The former occurs in the deconstruction of the “principle of all principles” in Husserl’s phenomenology, i.e. of intuition, and of the atomistic presuppositions of the traditional concept of truth as correspondence. The latter occurs in relation to some of the ethical concepts of deconstruction, such as the gift or justice. The main ideas that underpin this discussion are that a) this appearance of infinity is both the cause and the consequence of the deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence; b) such an infinity is the very structure of temporal being, i.e. of finitude; c) infinity is not a substance, but what makes every metaphysics of substance impossible. In this sense, it is more an operator (a deconstructive operator) than a concept of something real.