Essential History: Jacques Derrida And the Development of Deconstruction - Couverture rigide

Kates, Joshua

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0810123266 ISBN 13 : 9780810123267

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2005

Synopsis

However widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a "foundational" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy, or rather the most radical of skeptics? Are language-related themes--writing, semiosis--his central concern, or does he really write about something else? And does his thought form a system of its own, or does it primarily consist of commentaries on individual texts? This book seeks to address these questions by returning to what it claims is essential history: the development of Derrida's core thought through his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology. Joshua Kates recasts what has come to be known as the Derrida/Husserl debate, by approaching Derrida's thought historically, through its development. Based on this developmental work, Essential History culminates by offering discrete interpretations of Derrida's two book-length 1967 texts, interpretations that elucidate the until now largely opaque relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns.

A fundamental reinterpretation of Derrida's project and the works for which he is best known, Kates's study fashions a new manner of working with the French thinker that respects the radical singularity of his thought as well as the often different aims of those he reads. Such a view is in fact "essential" if Derrida studies are to remain a vital field of scholarly inquiry, and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JOSHUA KATES is a tenured faculty member at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0810123266
• ISBN 13: 9780810123267
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible