ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Ousia, Martin Heidegger, Ethnology
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Event: 1966 that we no longer have a center. In past, we used to have a transcendental signifier. A signifier in semiotics = the written image. Together, signifier + signified (the image of tree) = sign: signifiers shift through time. One signifier gives way to the next = event : significant transcendental signifiers: God: some people talk about being and essence and ultimately god. If the center is constantly shifting, we don t actually have a center. Cause the basic definition of a center is that it s fixed. Which means we don t actually have one: nietzsche thus spake zarathustra, god is dead . So he s already said that the center is gone: mentions also freud, heidegger. Questions the concept of being: michel de montaigne. Derrida says there are two ways to do this: So, question the origin: engage in play. Take away the center, you play around.