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In his essay "Plato's Pharmacy", [2] Derrida explores the notion that writing is a pharmakon in a composite sense of these meanings as "a means of producing something". Derrida uses pharmakon to highlight the connection between its traditional meanings and the philosophical notion of indeterminacy .
In his essay "Plato's Pharmacy", [3] Jacques Derrida deconstructs several texts by Plato, such as Phaedrus, and reveals the inter-connection between the word chain pharmakeia–pharmakon–pharmakeus and the notably absent word pharmakos.
According to Derrida, this complication is visible in the Greek word φάρμακον pharmakon, which meant both "cure" and "poison". Derrida argued that as far back as Plato, speech had been always given priority over writing. Derrida noted that Plato argued that writing was "poisonous" to memory, since writing is a mere repetition, as ...
Jacques Derrida (/ ˈ d ɛr ɪ d ə /; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; [6] 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
Derrida and others identified phonocentrism, or the prioritizing of speech over writing, as an integral part of phallogocentrism. Derrida explored this idea in his essay "Plato's Pharmacy". Derrida explored this idea in his essay "Plato's Pharmacy".
Pharmakon is a composite concept introduced by Jacques Derrida denoting remedy, poison, and scapegoat, based on his reading of Plato's Phaedrus. Pharmakon may also refer to: Pharmakon—Danish College of Pharmacy Practice , a university college situated in the city of Hillerød on the island of Zealand in Denmark
Indeterminacy was discussed in one of Jacques Derrida's early works Plato's Pharmacy (1969), [6] a reading of Plato's Phaedrus and Phaedo. Plato writes of a fictionalized conversation between Socrates and a student, in which Socrates tries to convince the student that writing is inferior to speech. [7]
Jean Ristat founded the magazine collection Digraph in 1974, as suggested by his professor of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, which he then put to [clarification needed] the recent essay on Plato's Pharmacy (see the supplement to the edition of 1974).