Noema, Institution and University in the Turn from Principiality to Axiomatics. Jacques Lezra, Necrophilology and Affirmative Deconstruction

Abstract

In the following essay I attempt a broad consideration of the problem of the strong institution starting from the question of the metaphorical double of language and its metaphysical-principial articulation. This is a problematic question that could be placed as a possible prolegomenon to Jacques Lezra’s thought on a heteroclit cosmology and a material or savage republic –a thought according to which “savage republicanism” would depend on producing and instituting defective concepts of political association that give rise to “defective institutions”. For this I point to Lezra’s work on the web of relations between language, institution and deconstruction in Paul de Man; to the paradigmatic reductio ad unum in the institution of language and its maximization as an ideal unit of meaning and logical structure of the world in Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology; to Lezra’s necrophilology as a materialist theory of concepts and ontological instability; and finally to the question of the principle of general equivalence and translatability in the age of global capitalism.