The Domestication of Derrida Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction

by Fabbri, Lorenzo

• ISBN13: 9780826497789
• ISBN10: 0826497780
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-08
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

An important new book analyzing the way in which Richard Rorty has tried to reconcile the thought of Jacques Derrida with the American pragmatist and liberal tradition.

Author Biography

Lorenzo Fabbri teaches at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Taking Rorty Seriously	p. 1
The Contingency of Being	p. 7
Two Ideas of Philosophy: Kant and Hegel	p. 7
The Desire for Autonomy and the Anxiety of Influence	p. 15
Histories of Writing and Masturbation	p. 26
Deconstruction as Circumvention: 'Envois'	p. 37
Derrida, the Transcendental and Theoretical Ascetism	p. 45
The Double Privacy of Deconstruction	p. 45
On the Very Possibility of Biographical Writing	p. 53
Rorty's Hidden Reductionism	p. 60
The Disposal of Philosophy	p. 74
The Resistance of Theory	p. 87
The Desires We are, The Languages We Speak	p. 87
Casting a Maybe at the Heart of the Present	p. 99
Politics of Conciliation and Politics of Monstrosity	p. 115
Notes	p. 129
Bibliography	p. 141
Index	p. 147
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