Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought - Couverture rigide

Dillon, M. C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791423751 ISBN 13 : 9780791423752

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1995

Synopsis

This critical interpretation shows Derridian thought to be permeated by a semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs thus challenging the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots.

This book interprets Derrida and looks beyond deconstructionism. It is a critique that identifies a pervasive flaw in Derrida's thinking: the semiological reduction that permeates deconstructionist theory and postmodernism in general. The critique focuses on Derrida, but its conclusions may be applied to other major figures in the postmodern tradition who espouse the variant of Saussurean semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs. This book challenges the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots, and does so on the basis of a diligent reading of central texts and an understanding of the tradition of Continental philosophy providing the context for Derridian thought.

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À propos de l'auteur

M. C. Dillon is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. He is the author of Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought and the editor of Merleau-Ponty Vivant, published by SUNY Press, as well as the author of Merleau-Ponty's Ontology and the editor of Écart & Différance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and Writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791423751
• ISBN 13: 9780791423752
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 241
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible