Derrida and Deconstruction

✍ Scribed by Hugh J. Silverman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Continental Philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The effects of Derrida's writings have been widespread in literary circles, where they have transformed current work in literary theory. By contrast Derrida's philosophical writings--which deal with the whole range of western thought from Plato to Foucault--have not received adequate attention by philosophers. Organized around Derrida's readings of major figures in the history of philosophy, Derrida and Deconstruction focuses on and assesses his specifically philosophical contribution. Contemporary continental philosophers assess Derrida's account of philosophical tradition, with each contributor providing a critical study of Derrida's position on a philosopher she or he has already studied in depth These figures include Plato, Meister Eckhart, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Foucault.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 10
Plato's Pharmakon: between two repetitions......Page 16
Mysticism and transgression: Derrida and Meister Eckhart......Page 33
Derrida and Descartes: economizing thought......Page 49
Derrida, Kant, and the performance of parergonality......Page 68
Hegel, Derrida, and the sign......Page 86
Drawing: (an) affecting Nietzsche: with Derrida......Page 101
'a cloche'......Page 117
On Derrida's 'Introduction' to Husserl's Origin of Geometry......Page 148
Derrida, Heidegger, and the time of the line......Page 163
Derrida and Sartre: Hegel's death knell......Page 178
Derrida, Levinas and violence......Page 191
Derrida and Foucault: madness and writing......Page 210
Notes......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 252
Notes on contributors......Page 264