Derrida: Profanations

ISBN-13: 9781441171351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Patrick O'Connor

Opis

Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical. The assertion demands an analysis of Derrida's radicalisation of the key philosophers who influenced him, as well as a rebuttal of theological accounts of deconstruction. This book closely examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger. This book presents a theorisation of deconstruction as profane, atheistic and egalitarian. It reveals how deconstruction holds the resources to think ontology as a multiplicity of worlds through demonstrates the ways in which Derrida expresses a phenomenology' which disjoints humans' orientation to the world. Deconstruction is characterized as radically hubristic. For deconstruction, nothing is sacred. If nothing sustains itself as separate, exclusive or sacrosanct, then nothing can sustain the implementation of its own hierarchy.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Exit Ghost: Derrida, Husserl, Hegel and the Theatre of Time

2. There Is No World Without End (Salut): Derrida's Phenomenology of the Extra-Mundane

3. Deconstruction is Profanation

4. There May Be No Community Whatsoever: Towards the Destruction of Morality and Community in Deconstruction

5. Absolute Profanation: The Deconstruction of Charity

6. Egalitarianism Without Measure: Equality and Freedom in Derrida

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index