Beyond Deconstruction: From Hermeneutics to Reconstruction

✍ Scribed by Alberto Martinengo (ed.)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

By now Jacques Derrida′s legacy has taken the form of a veritable (post-)deconstructive Babel. Its lasting presence is marked by a crucial oscillation between the echoes of its earlier success and the claims of a radically different sensibility. This volume takes stock of the controversy in three main fields: philosophy, literary studies, and law. For all those who are confronted with the variety of Derrida′s legacy this book serves as an invaluable map and takes a reconstructive approach to move beyond deconstruction

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Deconstruction at its end? Preliminary remarks / Alberto Martinengo --
Leaving philosophy? Heidegger, Bauen, Lassen / Emmanuel Cattin --
Waiting: the impossible / Jorge Pérez de Tudela Velasco --
Does it make sense to speak about deconstructing the subject? / Jean Robelin --
Beyond the eclipse of reason: on the reconstruction of rationality / Graziano Lingua --
Towards a reconstructive critique of historical reason / Jean-Marc Ferry --
Creative delinking / Evelyne Grossman --
Reality under construction: deconstruction and reconstruction in surrealism / Timo Kaitaro --
Deconstructing and reconstructing artists with PhDs / Clive Cazeaux --
Towards a dramaturgy of suspicion: theatre and myths in 20th-century France / Franca Bruera --
A methodological comparison between a mythocentric approach and a deconstructive reading in the interpretation of rewritings / Giulia Boggio Marzet Tremoloso --
Translation: theory and praxis. Deconstruction and reconstruction in Giacomo Leopardi / Maria Spiridopoulou --
Deconstructing and reconstructing built-up landscape in post-colonial literature: Damas's poetry / Antonella Emina --
Remembrance of nature within the subject: critical theory, psychoanalysis and the limits of subjection / Jordi Maiso --
The rise of political agonism and its relation to deconstruction: the case of Chantal Mouffe / Herman W. Siemens --
'Just tell me who you are!': Do we need identity in philosophy and the social sciences? / Flavia Monceri --
Daydreaming: Derrida's contribution to the theory of law / Alberto Andronico --
Law as practical knowledge: deconstruction, pragmatism, and the promise of classical practical philosophy / János Frivaldszky.

✦ Subjects

Deconstruction. Derrida, Jacques. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Post-Structuralism. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Structuralism.