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Essential history : Jacques Derrida and the development of deconstruction / Joshua Kates.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophyPublisher: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2005Description: xxix, 318 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0810123274
  • 9780810123274
  • 0810123266
  • 9780810123267
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 22
LOC classification:
  • B2430.D484 K38 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
List of abbreviations of works by Jacques Derrida -- 1. The success of deconstruction : Derrida, Rorty, Gasche, Bennington, and the quasi-transcendental -- 2. "A consistent problematic of writing and the trace" : the debate in Derrida/Husserl studies and the problem of Derrida's development -- 3. Derrida's 1962 interpretation of writing and truth : writing in the "introduction" to Husserl's Origin of geometry -- 4. The development of deconstruction as a whole and the role of Le probleme de la genese dans la philosophie de Husserl -- 5. Husserl's circuit of expression and the phenomenological voice in Speech and phenomena -- 6. Essential history : Derrida's reading of Saussure, and his reworking of Heideggerean history.
Summary: "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 opaque relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns.A fundamental reinterpretation of Derrida's project and the works for which he is best known, Kates's study fashions a new manner of working with the French thinker that respects the radical singularity of his thought as well as the often different aims of those he reads. Such a view is in fact "essential" if Derrida studies are to remain a vital field of scholarly inquiry, and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305) and index.

List of abbreviations of works by Jacques Derrida -- 1. The success of deconstruction : Derrida, Rorty, Gasche, Bennington, and the quasi-transcendental -- 2. "A consistent problematic of writing and the trace" : the debate in Derrida/Husserl studies and the problem of Derrida's development -- 3. Derrida's 1962 interpretation of writing and truth : writing in the "introduction" to Husserl's Origin of geometry -- 4. The development of deconstruction as a whole and the role of Le probleme de la genese dans la philosophie de Husserl -- 5. Husserl's circuit of expression and the phenomenological voice in Speech and phenomena -- 6. Essential history : Derrida's reading of Saussure, and his reworking of Heideggerean history.

"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 opaque relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns.A fundamental reinterpretation of Derrida's project and the works for which he is best known, Kates's study fashions a new manner of working with the French thinker that respects the radical singularity of his thought as well as the often different aims of those he reads. Such a view is in fact "essential" if Derrida studies are to remain a vital field of scholarly inquiry, and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns."--Publisher description.

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