The Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique

ISBN-13: 9780367661786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 278 str.

Stella Gaon

Opis

Stella Gaon provides the first fully philosophical account of the critical nature of deconstruction, and she does so by turning in an original way to psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Naming the Stakes  1. The Danger of Rhetoric  2. The Apocalyptic Tone of Philosophy  3. Redefining the "Postmodern"  4. Deconstructing Kantian Critique  Part 2: The Ends of Education 5. From "Neo" to "Post": Strategies in Theory  6. Neomodernist Critical Pedagogies  7. Pedagogy without Foundations: Feminism and Anti-Racism  8. The Habermasian Gambit: A Critique of Discourse Ethics  Part 3: On Deconstruction and Justice  9. Responsibility as Messianic Injunction  10. Derrida Contra Levinas  11. Conscience and the Aporia of Subjectivity  12. The Desire for Reason  Conclusion: The Risk of a Certain Critique 

O autorze

Stella Gaon is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Saint Mary’s University. She is the editor of Democracy in Crisis: Violence, Alterity, Community.