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The Philosophy of Derrida (Paperback)
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The Philosophy of Derrida (Paperback)
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For more than forty years Jacques Derrida has attempted to unsettle
and disturb the presumptions underlying many of our most
fundamental philosophical, political, and ethical conventions. In
The Philosophy of Derrida, Mark Dooley examines Derrida's large
body of work to provide an overview of his core philosophical ideas
and a balanced appraisal of their lasting impact. One of the
author's primary aims is to make accessible Derrida's writings by
discussing them in a vernacular that renders them less opaque and
nebulous. Derrida's unusual writing style, which mixes literary and
philosophical vocabularies, is shown to have hindered their
interpretation and translation. Dooley situates Derrida squarely in
the tradition of historicist, hermeneutic and linguistic thought,
and Derrida's objectives and those of "deconstruction" are rendered
considerably more convincing. While Derrida's works are ostensibly
diverse, Dooley reveals an underlying cohesion to his writings.
From his early work on Husserl, Hegel and de Saussure, to his most
recent writings on justice, hospitality and cosmopolitanism,
Derrida is shown to have been grappling with the vexed question of
national, cultural and personal identity and asking to what extent
the notion of a "pure" identity has any real efficacy. Viewed from
this perspective Derrida appears less as a wanton iconoclast, for
whom deconstruction equals destruction, but as a sincere and
sensitive writer who encourages us to shed light on out historical
constructions so as to reveal that there is much about ourselves
that we do not know.
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