Derrida: “What Comes Before The Question?“

In this intriguing overview of his famous notion of the ’trace,’ Derrida critiques the long-standing philosophical ’authority of the question’ by examining the conditions for questioning itself ... he argues that presence always presupposes ’Otherness’ (a ’primary affirmation’) which embodies a ’return’...to a ’different temporality older than the past and beyond the future’ - a different ’past,’ ’present,’ or ’future’ ... Derrida seeks a ’rapport’ with this Otherness that allows for any conventio