Jacques Derrida e la logica spettrale

This paper aims at interpreting a long period of Jacques Derrida’s thought (1930-2004), through the “logic of spectrality”. Such definition appeared in a long note in Specters of Marx (Derrida, 1993) where some fundamental lexical and argumentative indications are contained, along with a broad bibliography of books by Derrida, published between 1974 and 1993. Such note is a sort of summary of the main sources of the spectral logic, which is fundamental to outline Derrida’s lexicon (specter, ghost, spirit and revenant) and the peculiar form of temporality that characterizes the latter. This paper humbly draws its inspiration from Derrida’s philosophical style and it is a sort of self-application of the deconstructive approach to the books of the French philosopher. The conclusions propose some general considerations on Derrida’s deconstruction in the light of the decomposition, reiteration and deferred action characterizing the logic of spectrality and point out the influence of Heidegger’s phenomenology.