100 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American philosophy, and Derridian deconstruction, which extends and troubles the phonomenological and Heideggerian... Read more
Chapter 1 Deconstruction, Pragmatism and the Politics of Democracy, Chantal Mouffe; Chapter 2 Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism, Richard Rorty; Chapter 3 Deconstruction and Pragmatism – Is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal?, Simon Critchley; Chapter 4 Response to Simon Critchley, Richard Rorty; Chapter 5 Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony, Ernesto Laclau; Chapter 6 Response to Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty; Chapter 7, Jacques Derrida;

Biography

Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at acknowledgement Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster.