Beyond Deconstruction: From Hermeneutics to Reconstruction

✍ Scribed by Alberto Martinengo (editor)

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

✦ Synopsis

The controversy over Jacques Derrida's legacy is one of the most effective engines driving the contemporary debate, far beyond the bounds of philosophy. By now, the variety of contesting positions is so wide that it calls for a critical assessment to achieve a unified theoretical scheme. The dyad of deconstruction and reconstruction, to which the title of the volume refers, aims at composing a kind of map of this debate. The three sections of the book include essays that investigate specific aspects of Derrida's reception, from the view of 1. philosophy, 2. literary studies and 3. politics and law. These contributions study the implications of deconstruction beyond its original scope and intervene by taking stock of its most relevant aporias.

• Takes stock of the debate on Jacques Derrida’s legacy
• Reconstructive approach to deconstruction

✦ Table of Contents

Deconstruction at its End? Preliminary Remarks
Section I. Deconstruction and/or Reconstruction: A Philosophical Approach
Leaving Philosophy? Heidegger, Bauen, Lassen
Waiting: The Impossible
Does It Make Sense to Speak about Deconstructing the Subject?
Beyond the Eclipse of Reason: On the Reconstruction of Rationality
Towards a Reconstructive Critique of Historical Reason
Creative Delinking
Section II The Limits of Deconstruction: The Case of Art and Literature
Reality under Construction: Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Surrealism
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Artists with PhDs
Towards a Dramaturgy of Suspicion: Theatre and Myths in 20th-century France
A Methodological Comparison between a Mythocentric Approach and a Deconstructive Reading in the Interpretation of Rewritings
Translation: Theory and Praxis. Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Giacomo Leopardi
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Built-up Landscape in Post-Colonial Literature: Damas’s Poetry
Section III The Genealogy and Legacy of Deconstruction: The Politico-Social and Juridical Point of View
Remembrance of Nature within the Subject: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Subjection
The Rise of Political Agonism and its Relation to Deconstruction: The Case of Chantal Mouffe
‘Just Tell Me Who You Are !’: Do We Need Identity in Philosophy and the Social Sciences?
Daydreaming: Derrida’s Contribution to the Theory of Law
Law as Practical Knowledge: Deconstruction, Pragmatism, and the Promise of Classical Practical Philosophy
Bibliography
Index Rerum
Name Index