Derrida and Deconstruction

by Silverman,Hugh J.

• ISBN13: 9780415030946
• ISBN10: 0415030943
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1989-07-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The effects of Derrida's writings have been widespread in literary circles, where they have transformed current work in literary theory. By contrast Derrida's philosophical writings--which deal with the whole range of western thought from Plato to Foucault--have not received adequate attention by philosophers. Organized around Derrida's readings of major figures in the history of philosophy, Derrida and Deconstruction focuses on and assesses his specifically philosophical contribution. Contemporary continental philosophers assess Derrida's account of philosophical tradition, with each contributor providing a critical study of Derrida's position on a philosopher she or he has already studied in depth These figures include Plato, Meister Eckhart, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Foucault.

Table of Contents

Plato's Pharmakon: Between Two Repetitions

Mysticism and Transgression: Derrida and Meister Eckhart

Derrida and Descartes: Economizing Thought

Derrida, Kant and the Performance of Parergonality

Derrida, Hegel and the Sign

Drawing: (An) Affecting Nietzsche: With Derrida

La Cloche

On Derrida's "Introduction" to Husserl's "Origin of Geometry"

Derrida, Heidegger and the Time of the Line

Derrida and Srtre: Hegel's Death

Derrida,Levinas and Violence

Derrida and Foucault: Madness and Wri

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