Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy

• Autore: Spitzer Anais
• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Derrida, Jacques; Myth; Philosophy; Taylor, Mark C., --1945-; Taylor, Mark C., 1945
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Beginning Otherwise; Chapter 1 'What, after all, of the remain(s) . . .'; Chapter 2 Soliciting Philosophy's Tears; Chapter 3 Rend(er)ing the Pharmakon: A Wound without a Cure; Chapter 4 Secreting Myth: Thinking Sa Otherwise; Chapter 5 Myth and the Gift, If There is Any; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy , Anais N. Spitzer examines previously unexplored areas of the scholarship of Jacques Derrida and Mark C. Taylor in order to propose a contemporary, postmodern, deconstructive theory of myth with provocative implications. Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy argues that the insights of deconstruction and complexity theory demand a re-examination of mythos (narrative, story, myth) in terms of its disseminative propensities and its disruptive interplay with logos (language, structure, word). Such a re-examination calls into questi
• Titolo autorizzato: Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy
• ISBN: 1-283-12230-8; 9786613122308; 1-4411-0315-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816589703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory