While Hegel claims that philosophical thought should be purged of mythical elements Derrida objects to the idea of philosophy as a purely logocentric endeavour. Thus, their ideas of what philosophy is or should be determine ...

The Ionian philosophy of 7th century B.C., which according to traditional compherension has characterised the whole philosophy of ancient Greece, has found its point of departure in archaic Greek poetry, i.e. the mythic ...