Derrida, from\u00a0“A Number of Yes”<\/p>\n
p 121<\/p>\n
For essential reasons, it is always risky to say “the<\/em>\u00a0‘yes,'” to make just another name or word of the adverb ‘yes’, an object\u00a0about<\/em>\u00a0which constative statements might pronounce the truth. Because a\u00a0yes<\/em>\u00a0doesn’t suffer any metalanguage,it engages the “performative” of an originary affirmation and thus is supposed by every utterance\u00a0about<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0yes<\/em>. Indeed\u2014to put it aphoristically\u2014for Michel de Certeau there is no subject of any kind which does not arise from the scene of the\u00a0yes<\/em>. (121)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
p 130<\/p>\n
All ontological or transcendental statements suppose the\u00a0yes<\/em>\u00a0or the\u00a0Zusage<\/em>. Thus they can only fail in any attempt to thematize it.\u00a0And yet,\u00a0one must<\/em>\u2014yes\u2014uphold the ontological-transcendental exigency in order to uncover the dimensions of a yes which is neither empirical nor ontic. . . .Presupposed by every proposition, it cannot be confused with the position, thesis or theme of any discourse. It is through and through the fable which, almost [quasiment<\/em>] before the act and before the\u00a0logos<\/em>, remains\u00a0almost<\/em>\u00a0at the beginning: \u201cPar le mot par<\/em> commence donc ce texte\u201d (Fable, by Ponge) (\u201cA Number of Yes\u201d 130). [\u201cWith the word with<\/u> begins this text.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
p 130 again:<\/p>\n
But the yes<\/em> never lets itself be reduced to any ultimate simplicity. Here we rediscover the fatality of repetition<\/em>, and of repetition as an incisive opening. Let us suppose a first yes<\/em>, the arche-originary yes<\/em>, which engages, promises and acquiesces before all else. On the one hand, it is originarily, in its very structure, a response. It is firstly second<\/em>, coming after a demand, a question or another yes.<\/em> On the other hand, as an engagement or a promise, it must at least<\/em> bind itself beforehand to a confirmation in a next yes<\/em>. Yes<\/em>, to the next, or to the other yes<\/em>, already there but nonetheless to come. The \u201cI\u201d does not pre-exist this movement, nor does the subject: they are instituted in it. I (\u201cI\u201d) can only say yes (yes-I) by promising to keep the memory of the yes and to confirm it immediately. Promise of memory and memory of promise. This \u201csecond\u201d yes<\/em> is a priori<\/em> enveloped in the \u201cfirst.\u201d (130).<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Derrida, from\u00a0“A Number of Yes” p 121 For essential reasons, it is always risky to say “the\u00a0‘yes,’” to make just another name or word of the adverb ‘yes’, an object\u00a0about\u00a0which constative statements might pronounce the truth. Because a\u00a0yes\u00a0doesn’t suffer any metalanguage,it engages the “performative” of an originary affirmation and thus is supposed by every utterance\u00a0about\u00a0the\u00a0yes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":1755,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1771","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1771\/revisions\/2021"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}