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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.
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.
This book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist
teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most
tightly. Thus, tightly held ideas from 'the enlightenment' -
rationality, individuality, equality and secularity - are
considered as sources of suffering: technocracy, broken politics
and 'moral acrimony'. Freedom lies not in accepting or rejecting
these views, but in seeing where they've become dogmas, feeding
cultural addiction to certainty and control. Liam Kavanagh is an
embodied cognitive scientist, deeply influenced by Zen, who directs
research at Life Itself, a community of people for a wiser, weller
world. Past work in development economics convinced him that
recognising and unlearning ideology is the most important step
towards imagining futures worth creating. He helps create
opportunities for this by organising residential learning
communities, dialogues between Science and Zen, and contemplative
activist groups.
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