1st Edition

Derrida, Responsibility and Politics

By Morag Patrick Copyright 1997
182 Pages
by Routledge

181 Pages
by Routledge

181 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1997, Jacques Derrida's ’deconstructive method’ or ’deconstructionism’ is renowned as a species of anarchic free play, an antifoundationalism which can only end in a ruinous irrationalism and thereby the denial of all possibility of discrimination or judgement. In this book, Morag Patrick argues that far from having abandoned critique, Derrida's questioning of Western metaphysics... Read more

Part 1: Thinking After Metaphysics  1. The Dialogue of the Question  2. Deconstructive Strategies  Part 2: Rewriting Responsibility and Politics  3. The Ethics and Politics of Deconstruction  4. A Question of Significance?  5. Assuming Responsibility.

Biography

Morag Patrick