Decostruzione: un debito insoluto Una nota sul valore di “proprio”

Abstract

Recurrently engaged in marking a distance from Heideggerian discourse, Derrida simultaneously sees the limits of Heidegger's critique of traditional metaphysics, the residues of which are said to be present in the jargon of authenticity. The polemical reference is, in fact, to the value of the "own," with the entire lexical family Eigentlich, Eigen, Ereignis (to appropriate, property, appropriation) representing what he calls "the most continuous and difficult thread of Heideggerian thought", and in which he sees the "deepest and most powerful defense" of that metaphysics of presence that Heidegger's Destruktion tenaciously tried to shake. The arguments for a different reading of the "metaphysics of the proper" are traced by Derrida starting from a twist on the reading of Ereignis, thanks to which the French philosopher finds in Heidegger's reflections on appropriating-expropriating (ereignen-enteignen) essential insights for the development of the notion of the “gift” as an event.