Theory After Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis

ISBN-13: 9781138599086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 378 str.

Kailash C. Baral; R. Radhakrishnan

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A critical anthology that re-examines Jacques Derrida’s thought by way of theory and praxis, this volume reflects on his striking legacy and the future of theory. Among contemporary thinkers, Derrida challenges not only our ways of thinking but also hitherto methods of inquiry. This book captures how Derrida questions the fundamental assumptions of Western philosophical thought and exposes the intricate lie behind binaries, such as speech/writing, nature/culture, male/female, black/white, literature/criticism, etc.. A significant contribution to literary theory, it explores not only the status of Derrida’s contribution as a critical thinker but also the status of critical theory as such.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Jacques Derrida’s Legacy: Democracy to Come Fred Dallmayr 2 Quoting Time: Notes on Derrida’s ‘Ousia et Grammè’ 3 Platonism, Spinoza and the History of Deconstruction 4 ‘Sociology over Philosophy’? ‘Artificial Paradoxes’? Derrida and Bourdieu, Ethical Subjectivity and the Gift 5 Before and After Glas: Approximations to the Cognitio Vespertina 6 Perhaps the Impossible, therefore, Will have been Necessary: Reflections before Friendship 7 Cosmopolitanism after Derrida: City, Signature and Sovereignty 8 The Generation of the I 9 Derrida and Religious Reflection in the Continental Tradition 10 On Following without Following: Deconstructing a Notion of Faithfulness in Church Practice 11 Derrida’s Deconstruction of Logocentrism: Implications for Trauma Studies 12 Is Translation a Mode? 13 Derrida Elsewhere: A Mnemocultural Dispersal. Editors’ Note to the Second Edition. Postscript: The Philosopher That Therefore He has to Be. Index