Jacques Derrida Quote

At the end of Being and Nothingness,... Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they were effected, itself was linked up to itself, relating and appearing to itself, by means of the essential project of human-reality. What was named in this way, in an allegedly neutral and undetermined way, was nothing other than the metaphysical unity of man and God, the relation of man to God, the project of becoming God as the project constituting human-reality. Atheism changes nothing in this fundamental structure.


"The Ends of Man," Margins of Philosophy, tr. w/ notes by Alan Bass. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, 1982. (original French published in Paris, 1972, as Marges de la philosophie). p. 116


At the end of Being and Nothingness,... Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they were effected, ...

At the end of Being and Nothingness,... Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they were effected, ...

At the end of Being and Nothingness,... Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they were effected, ...

At the end of Being and Nothingness,... Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they were effected, ...