Decostruir-si, ovvero: sul resto della metafisica

In addressing the topic of “Metaphysics and Deconstruction”, the article begins by asking, “How does deconstruction still remain relevant today?”, before exploring the concepts of deconstruction and “remain” in Derrida’s work. It then considers how metaphysics can be deconstructed by interpreting the complement of specification as both as objective and subjective genitive. According to the objective genitive, deconstruction destroyed metaphysics to take its place. However, the subjective genitive suggests that metaphysics has not ceased deconstructing itself by drawing on the irresolvable contradictions that gave rise to it. This enables metaphysics to both contradict and reformulate itself. This is the meaning the article proposes to understand the “remain of metaphysics”, suggesting to grasp this “remain” in the never-ending opening of metaphysics to the possibility of welcoming the contradiction established by the event that gave rise to it – and to which deconstruction relentlessly opens its issues.