Essential history - Joshua Kates
Jacques Derrida and the development of deconstruction
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However widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a "foundational" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy, or rather the most radical of skeptics? Are language-related themes--writing, semiosis--his central concern, or does he really write about something else? And does his thought form a system of its own, or does it primarily consist of commentaries on individual texts? This book seeks to address these questions by returning to what it claims is essential history: the development of Derrida's core thought through his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology. Joshua Kates recasts what has come to be known as the Derrida/Husserl debate, by approaching Derrida's thought historically, through its development. Based on this developmental work, Essential History culminates by offering discrete interpretations of Derrida's two book-length 1967 texts, interpretations that elucidate the until now largely opaqu...
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2005Uitgever: Northwestern University Press318 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0810123274ISBN-13: 9780810123274Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Northwestern University: 2005. Studies in phenomenology and exitential philosophy. Paperback, 318 pp., notes, bibliography, index, 15x22x2 cm, very light traces of use on cover/some spots on end page, otherwise as new. [Categorie: Filosofie] [Auteur: Kates, Joshua.] [Pagina's: 318] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction.]
