David Farrell Krell
Author of Basic Writings
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David Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Brown University.
Works by David Farrell Krell
Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being (1986) 26 copies
Derrida and Our Animal Others: Derrida's Final Seminar, the Beast and the Sovereign (2013) 12 copies
The Purest of Bastards: Works of Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida (2000) 7 copies
Interplay: The Selected Proceedings of the 4th Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference (2007) 3 copies
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"At bottom, the ordinary is not ordinary; it is extra-ordinary. The essence of truth, that is, of unconcealedness, is dominated throughout by a denial. Yet this denial is not a defect or a fault, as though truth were an unalloyed unconcealedness that has rid itself of everything concealed. If truth could accomplish this, it would no longer be itself. This denial, in the form of a double concealment, belongs to the essence of truth as unconcealedness. Truth, in its essence, is un-truth."
And then two pages later: "Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealedness."
And then two more pages later: "Truth is un-truth, insofar as there belongs to it the reservoir of the not-yet-revealed, the un-uncovered, in the sense of concealment."
It kind of made me think someone should just write a poem about it instead. But then here is another quote which seemed almost like a direct challenge: "Occasionally we still have the feeling that violence has long been done to the thingly element of things and that thought has played a part in this violence, for which reason people disavow thought instead of taking pains to make it more thoughtful."
There is something so seductive about a sentence that begins "The essence of truth," even (especially) if it concludes with un-truth.… (more)