Between negative and positive, relate to empirical before transforming both into the Spiritual or Divinemetaphysics through inverting the self-other relation into an assymetrical one rather than the traditional symmetrical relation of metaphysics. Derrida would thus argue that Blanchot, like Levinas, does not manage to escape metaphysics. As transcendental-empirical difference is an illusion, truth is rather to be located in the quasi-transcendental, or the difference between self and other, presence and absence, or difference; rather than raising the Other to a totalizing and absolute concept as Blanchot and Levinas do. In his “Demeure" essay, Derrida deconstructs the division between fiction and testimony to show that they are not distinguishable but complicit. Indeed, fiction is the con
