In The Domestication of Derrida, Lorenzo Fabbri argues that Rorty's
powerful reading protocol is motivated by the necessity to contain
the risks of Derrida's critique of Western philosophy and politics.
Rorty claims that Derrida reduces philosophy to a production of
private fantasies that do not have any political or epistemological
relevance. Fabbri challenges such an aberrant appropriation by
investigating the two key features of Rorty's privatization of
deconstruction: the reduction of deconstructive writing to an
example of merely autobiographical literature; and the idea that
Derrida not only dismisses, but also mocks the desire to engage
philosophy with political struggle. What is ultimately questioned
in The Domestication of Derrida is the legitimacy of labelling
deconstruction as a post-modern withdrawal from politics and
theory. By discussing Derrida's resistance against the very
possibility of theoretical and political ascetism, Fabbri shows
that there is much more politics and philosophy in deconstruction
than Rorty is willing to admit.
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