3. Why Didn’t Derrida Deconstruct All Metaphysics?

Any effort to establish a “New Metaphysics” will have to defend itself against Derrida, who seems to have deconstructed all metaphysics with his masterpiece On Grammatology. Why I think Derrida failed is elaborated on in “On Typography” and “(Re)construction,” both by O.G. Rose, but here I will present the outline of the case. 1. Derrida deconstructed metaphysical systems which rely on “ontological gaps” but not metaphysics focused on phenomenological experiences of apprehension. 2. Derrida deconstructed metaphysical efforts to say what things are like “in of themselves’ (across the noumenon, per se), but Derrida did not deconstruct metaphysical efforts which focus on what things are “like” in their “unfolding.” 3. Derrida deconstructed “metaphysics of judgment” but not “metaphysics of apprehension,” “metaphysics of gaps” but not “metaphysics of reading.” 4. Derrida deconstructed metaphysics which open “gaps” between surfaces and depths, parts and wholes, etc. Derrida deconstructed “metaphysics of gaps and judgment” but not “metaphysics of experience and apprehension” (in other papers, I say that Derrida deconstructed “the metaphysics of the book” but not “the metaphysics of reading”). By basing a “New Metaphysics” on phenomenology versus (Platonic) systematizing, we can justify engaging in the practice of metaphysics again... For the rest of the essay, please visit:   / why-didnt-derrida-deconstruct-all-metaphysics   *Please note that this document is being updated based on how the dialectic develops, so please check Medium for the most updated version. For more by Javier Rivera:    / @javiphilosophy   Thomas Jockin:    / jockt967   O.G. Rose: https://www.og-rose.com/ Photo by Pawel Czerwinski