Derrida From Now On (Hardcover)

Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in October 2004, Derrida From Now On attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and demonstrate the continuing significance of Derrida's work for contemporary philosophy and literary theory. If Derrida's thought is to remain relevant for us today, it must be at once understood in its original context and uprooted and transplanted elsewhere. Derrida From Now On thus begins with an analysis of Derrida's attachment to the French language, to Europe, and to European secular thought, before turning to Derrida's long engagement with the American context and to the ways in which deconstruction allows us to rethink the history, identity, and promise of post-9/11 America. Taking as its point of departure several of Derrida's later works (from "Faith and Knowledge" and The Work of Mourning to Rogues and Learning to Live Finally), the book demonstrates how Derrida's analyses of the phantasms of sovereignty, the essential autoimmunity of democracy or religion, or the impossible mourning of the nation-state, can help us to understand what is happening today in American culture, literature, and politics. From now on, it is argued, Derrida's thought will live on only by being translated elsewhere; though this has in fact always been the case, Derrida's disappearance will have driven home this necessity with a new force and an unprecedented urgency. Derrida From Now On is at once an effect of this force and an attempt to respond to this urgency.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	Michael Naas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-2958-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-8232-2958-0
Barcode:	9780823229581

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