Here we expose the relationship between the thoughts of the philosopher Jacques Derrida about literature and transcendental phenomenology. We introduce this relationship from the reception of two authors who address Derrida on the literary field in the United States. They seem to assume that Derrida takes distance from philosophy or, at least, from Husserl’s philosophy. Reading an unpublished seminar, we begin by posing the problem of literature’s historicity. Because this problem is inseparable from a certain power of fiction associated with both, the law and the modern idea of democracy, we show secondly, the idea of literature as a “fictional institution.” This idea is developed in relation to a “nonthetic experience of the thesis” linked to the Husserlian transcendental reduction. Finally, we select two moments from the book The Give of Death in which this experience is equivalent to the public, ethical-political experience of a certain secret.
Keywords:
Literature, Phenomenology, Fiction, Institution, Public space
Trujillo, I. (2021). The fictive institution. On literature and phenomenology in Jacques Derrida. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (103), pp. 625–651. Retrieved from https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/64008
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