La escritura como lenguaje testamentario

Abstract

This paper aims to explore Derrida’s notion of writing, paying special attention to the link between absence and materiality. As we hope to demonstrate, the consideration of the former impacts deeply on the understanding of the latter, and allows us to comprehend the enigmatic passage “from language to writing” proclaimed by Of Gramatology. We will take Speech and Phenomena as the basis of our analysis, a text that has been almost exclusively received in phenomenological terms but whose fertility exceeds, we believe, the mere comment to Husserl. During our analysis we will point out the relevance of figures such as Hegel or Blanchot, tracking not only the biographical-intellectual viability of their inclusion in 1967, but examining what conclusions this allows us to draw about the link between materiality and absence.