Jacques Derrida and the Question of Interpretation: The Phenomenological Reduction, the Intention of the Author, and Kafka's Law

ISBN-13: 9783631560051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 652 str.

Tomi Kaarto

Opis

Jacques Derrida emphasized the importance of Husserl and especially his concept of phenomenological reduction for his own philosophical work. A central thesis in this book is that Derrida s deconstruction can in fact be understood as a kind of radicalization of the phenomenological reduction. To show this, the author reconstructs Derrida s criticism of Husserl, which even as it is inspired by and partly based on Heidegger s criticism of phenomenology, can be conceived as applying the -method- of phenomenological reduction to Husserl s phenomenological reduction itself. That the problems of truth, interpretation and reading are crucial not only in his philosophy but also in Derrida s concept of literature is elucidated by his Kafka reading and an extended -Derridean- reading of Kafka s short story In the Penal Colony."

Spis treści

Contents : Jacques Derrida - Edmund Husserl - Martin Heidegger - Phenomenological reduction - Phenomenology and literature - Literature and philosophy - Interpretation - Franz Kafka - Deconstruction - Intention of the author - Question of context - Temporality - Question of history - "Ultra-critical" literature.

O autorze

The Author: Tomi Kaarto, 1972-2006, was an Assistant of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku (Finland).