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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453680303321

Autore

McQuillan Martin

Titolo

Deconstruction after 9/11 [[electronic resource] /] / by Martin McQuillan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-89112-5

1-281-79682-4

9786611796822

0-203-89110-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in cultural and media studies

Disciplina

320.01

801.95

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001

Terrorism - Philosophy

Deconstruction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Infinite Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Deconstruction After 9/11; 1 Wars and Rumours of Wars; 2 The Eternal Battle for the Domination of the World, or, Forget Kosovo; 3 Tele-Techno-Theology; 4 Extraordinary Rendition: Derrida and Vietnam; 5 Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science?; 6 Spectres of Poujade: Naomi Klein and the New International; 7 Promises, Promises (This Is Also Why . . . ); 8 Hungary in Deconstruction; 9 Enosis, or, 'The Sovereignty of Cyprus'

10 'The Last Jewish Intellectual': Edward Said and the Deconstruction of PalestineEpilogue: War and Philosophy; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq.  The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia and Afghanistan to Palestine and Baghdad.  His



'textual activism' is as impatient with the universal gestures of philosophy as it is with the complacency and reductionism of policy-makers and activists alike.  This work records a response to the war on thinking that has marked western discours