Derrida and Foucault: Philosophy, Politics, and Polemics.
Derrida and the Problem of Ethics. with the problem of ethics in Derrida’s works has been further complicated by the recent surge of interest in ethics among many literary analysts and critics. Within this maelstrom, Derrida’s followers and critics alike have engaged in impassioned arguments over the so-called “ethical turn” in Derrida’s career as a “philosopher.” No matter.
There are two key themes offered by the work of Jacques Derrida which offer resources for thinking how we might avoid reproducing a mode of analysis in which the potential of post-foundational approaches to ethics are limited by its positioning as a ground for politics: first, an explicit focus on the limits of, and in, theory; second, the development of the concepts of the im-possible, aporia.
Simon Critchley- Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity Though my personal reservations towards Simon Critchley's philosophy are legion, I cannot deny the merits of this book, which, alongside his Ethics of Deconstruction, is the very finest account of Levinas and Derrida in the English language. I hope Critchley would not take it amiss if I were to.
Jacques Derrida rarely appears in the anglophone debate over religion and politics, but I believe he rebuts a programmatic secularism that aims to exclude religion from the public sphere. 1 Like Lilla, Derrida believes that religious traditions are sometimes the source of violence, and he agrees that politics should not be dominated by theocratic authority. However, although Derrida shares.
This essay seeks to reveal the dynamic of this process, and show certain parallels with results supplied in the phenomenological enquiries of Michel Henry, and in the deconstructions of Jacques Derrida. If an epoch may still be captured in the concept, then the negative dialectical conceptuality developed by Adorno must capture a condition common to that epoch, and, in part, shared by other.
This essay compares these perspectives to locate the rational dimensions of the reasonable, and to relate that “meta-reason” to the irrational and unreasonable aspects of identity formation and the unfolding of world history. Keywords enlightenment fiction history rationality reason universal This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. Preview. Unable to display.
The (ir)responsible step taken in Derrida’s texts is understood as a mode of structural irony, and it is proposed that the stylistic changes that occurred in Derrida’s “later” texts were in part due to the autoimmunity caused by an overexposure to the “laws of the interview”. Throughout the thesis styles that manipulate the unmasterable excesses of irony are investigated, and each.