ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores how Derrida has developed and extended this legacy of touch in such innovative and insightful ways, precisely through a radically singular and uncompromising l'é criture du corps' or 'writing of the body'. Looked at the consistent thematic of Platonism in Derrida's work which explores how dialogues such as the Phaedrus, the whole notion of the theory of Forms is complicated and supposed dualism is undone, so that the bodily and sensible become re-affirmed. Derrida introduces Nancy's discourse in On Touching with this proviso: there will also be a deconstruction at work an interminable deconstruction. Derrida refers to this as 'Nancy's turning point, an implacable deconstruction of modern philosophies of the body proper and the flesh. On touching to mark the culmination of Derrida's critique of Levinas, beginning with 'Violence and Metaphysics', at this Moment and evolving in On Touching.
