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...
Jacques Derrida emphasized the importance of Husserl and especially his concept of phenomenological reduction for his own philosophical work. A centra...