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

Livre 94 sur 156: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Kates, Joshua

 
9780810123267: Essential History: Jacques Derrida And the Development of Deconstruction
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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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810123266
ISBN 13 
9780810123267
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
384
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ISBN 10 :  0810123274 ISBN 13 :  9780810123274
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2005
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