A herança em questão: considerações a partir do pensamento derridiano

Abstract

The present work proposes to rethink the notion of inheritance according to the so-called deconstruction thinking of Jacques Derrida. The text presented here is developed in three steps: 1. First of all, it discusses the relationship between deconstruction and its other – what it is conventionally named as “philosophical tradition” –, in order to highlight how much inheritance matters as a philosophical problem since Derrida’s first texts; 2. Later, we discuss conceptual aspects concerning inheritance like its meanings and applications, approaching it to the Derridean lexicon so that we can rethink it in another way – that is, in a different way. For this purpose, we summon some quasi-concepts that cross Derrida’s work such as différance, iterability, trace etc.; 3. Last, the inheritance is introduced as an unavoidable question in the field of general thought. Based on some late texts by Derrida – in which the notion of inheritance is applied and/or summoned –, we seek to emphasize its role as an action, an activity, that is to say, a contradictory task that requires us choice, filtering, selection etc. before what, a priori, one did not choose to receive. In conclusion from this work, we realize that the contemplation around an inheritance is not something definitively finished – which would only observe the past in its simples form – but rather than this, it is a fundamental responsibility that has no ending and must be redone, every time, in favor and in the name of a multiple modalities of reinventing existence.