ABSTRACT
Derrida's pre- or proto-deconstructive work focuses on opposing Husserl's concept of intentional history to empirical history, to the history that falls under Husserl's transcendental epoche and is therewith "bracketed" and "put out of play". Indeed, in order to highlight this opposition, Derrida speaks of intentional history as "transcendental historicity". Derrida's claim that the necessity of linguistic embodiment for the constitution of ideality introduces a "difference" into its being that is as inseparable from this being as it is ineradicable from it is therefore based on the unwitting exchange of what is other than ideality in the sense of intrasubjective ideality with what is the same as this ideality. That is, Husserl's of the ideality that composes an intersubjective tradition is mistaken by Derrida for an account of the intrasubjective ideality wherein originates the specific ideal content of a given tradition.
