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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824110503321

Autore

Pirovolakis Eftichis <1970->

Titolo

Reading Derrida and Ricoeur [[electronic resource] ] : improbable encounters between deconstruction and hermeneutics / / Eftichis Pirovolakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-2951-7

1-4416-4053-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature

Disciplina

801/.95

Soggetti

Deconstruction

Phenomenology and literature

Hermeneutics

Literature - Philosophy

Criticism - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ricoeur on Husserl and Freud: from a perceptual to a reflective present -- Derrida and the rhythmic discontinuity -- Ricoeur's hermeneutics of the self -- Secret singularities.

Sommario/riassunto

"Written in the aftermath of the deaths of the French philosophers Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005). this book is an important and innovative study of the contentious relation between deconstruction and hermeneutics, Offering close readings of Derrida's and Ricoeur's writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralist linguistics. and Levinasian ethics, Efrichis Pirovolakis introduces the motif of "improbable encounters," and explicates why the two thinkers may be said to be simultaneously close to each other and separated by an unbridgeable abyss. Pirovolakis complicates any facile distinction between these movements, which are two of the most influential streams of continental thought, and questions a certain pathos with respect to the distance separating them. Pirovolakis also translates Derrida's brief tribute to Ricoeur: "The Word: Giving, Naming, Calling," which appears here in English for the first time. The book is



essential reading for anyone immersed in continental philosophy or literary theory."--BOOK JACKET.