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Volume 9, Numéro 1, Pages 583-597
2022-12-24

Leftovers Of The Trembling/translating Philosophers: Malamoud, Derrida And The Brahmanic Leftovers (úchiṣṭa)

Authors : Sharma Sandeep .

Abstract

Leftover food, sacrifice and hierarchy are some of the central themes of Kas Saghafi’s paper “The Master Trembles: Sacrifice, Hierarchy and Ontology in Derrida’s “Remain(s)” (Saghafi, 2016). My curiosity is limited to a layman’s inquisitiveness: Were Malamoud/Derrida/Kas really familiar/fair with ambiguities and complexities of Sanskrit language/linguistics, Vedic Mathematics and so on? With little knowledge of Sanskrit grammar and linguistics, Derrida's attempt in finding gaps in Sanskrit linguistics, philosophical and cultural registers like a specialist in Sanskrit is a premature attempt in deconstruction, that too when he was fully mature as a philosopher.

Keywords

khiano ; reste ; lokapakti ; guru ; úchiṣṭa