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Essential History - Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction (Hardcover)
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Essential History - Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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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 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.
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