WAITING BEFORE THE LAW IN KAFKA’S PARABLE “BEFORE THE LAW” WE SEE, quite famously, that the story’s protagonist (known only as “the man from the country”) is forced to wait before the gate of law for his whole life. The gatekeeper, whose only purpose seems to be to bar the man’s way, keeps him sitting on a stool just before the gate. As the man is dying from old age, he has this well-known exch...

A logarithmic fourth-order parabolic equation in one space dimension with periodic boundary conditions is analyzed. Using a new semidiscrete approximation in time, a first-order entropy–entropy dissipation inequality is proved. Passing to the limit of vanishing time discretization parameter, some regularity results are deduced. Moreover, it is shown that the solution is strictly positive for la...

GENERAL FIELD OF "Origin of Geometry": The last part of Husserl's career is devoted to an analysis of a "Crisis of European Humanity," as the title of the "Vienna Lecture" would have it. Crisis is the phenomenon of a culture whose science has grown too complex. In crisis, science has lost its meaning for the culture as a whole, has become an autonomous machine, whose results seem to have been s...

In this open ing prov o ca tion, Freud and Heidegger make as ser tions which stand, prima fa cie, in ex treme op po si tion to one an other—with Derrida sit u ated, not sur pris ingly, some where in-be tween. But be tween what? What is the philo soph i cal sig nif i cance of the cog ni tive re la tion one stands in with re spect to one’s own death? Be tween (1) Heidegger’s as ser tion that hold...

We define a probabilistic scheme to compute the distributions of periods, tran-sients and weigths of attraction basins in Kauffman networks. These quantities are obtained in the framework of the annealed approximation, first introduced by Derrida and Pomeau. Numerical results are in good agreement with the computed values of the exponents of average periods, but show also some interesting featu...

Bernard Derrida,1 Susanna C. Manrubia,2 and Damián H. Zanette3 1Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’École Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231 Paris 05 Cedex, France 2Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany 3Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas y Técnicas, Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro, 8400 S.C. de Bariloche...

We study slowly moving solutions of the real Ginzburg-Landau equation on the line, by a method due to J. Carr and R.L. Pego. These are functions taking alternately positive or negative values on large intervals. A consequence of our approach is that we can propose a rigorous derivation of a stochastic model of coarsening by successive elimination of the smallest interval, which was described in...

By means of rather general arguments, based on an approach due to Derrida that makes use of samples of finite size, we analyse the effective diffusivity and drift tensors in certain types of random medium in which the motion of the particles is controlled by molecular diffusion and a local flow field with known statistical properties. The power of the Derrida method is that it uses the equilibr...

The author finds the possibility of overcoming current liberal-capitalist system in a different conception time, which requires attitude towards both past and future. paper begins with an analysis Benjamin?s critique Marx, followed by Derrida?s Benjamin finally Marx. points out problem teleological understanding that meaning events comes only from future, is present prevents us escaping ?circle...