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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968847103321

Autore

Beardsworth Richard <1961->

Titolo

Derrida & the political / / Richard Beardsworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-83737-2

1-134-83738-0

1-299-47958-8

0-203-42762-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Thinking the political

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Deconstruction

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 (p. [165]-171) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Derrida and the Political; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction; 1. From Language to Law, an Opening onto Judgement: Saussure, Kafka, Derrida; Introduction; The trace, the violence of institution; Law, judgement and singularity; 2. The Political Limit of Logic and the Promise of Democracy: Kant, Hegel, Derrida; Introduction; Modernity and violence; The limit of modernity; The logic of Kantian morality; Hegel's critique of Kant; Contradiction, aporia and the fate of law; 3. Aporia of Time, Aporia of Law: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida

IntroductionHeidegger's thinking of aporia: a politics of authentic temporality; Levinas's thinking of aporia and the fate of the ethical; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential, controversial and complex thinkers of our time, has come to be at the centre of many political debates. This is the first book to consider the political implications of Derrida's deconstruction. It is a timely response both to Derrida's own recent shift towards thinking about the political, and to the political focus of contemparary Continental philosophy.Richard Beardsworth's study, Derrida and the Political, locates a way of thinking about deconstruction using the tools of political philosophy. Richard Beardsworth has provided studen