Derrida, Responsibility and Politics
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Author_Morag Patrick
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continental philosophy
deconstructive
Deconstructive Intervention
Deconstructive Questioning
Deconstructive Reading
Deconstructive Responsibility
Deconstructive Strategies
Deconstructive Writing
Derrida's Early Essay
Derrida's Reading
Derrida's Response
Derrida's Text
Derrida's Work
Derrida's Writing
derridas
Derrida’s Early Essay
Derrida’s Reading
Derrida’s Response
Derrida’s Text
Derrida’s Work
Derrida’s Writing
Drawn Back
Emancipatory Promise
Empirical Terrain
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ethical theory
Ethico Political Judgement
Ethico Political Moment
Ethico Political Position
Ethico Political Responsibility
ethics in deconstruction studies
Le Tiers
metaphysical critique
moral judgement
Ontological Language
philosophical
Philosophical Authority
philosophical methodology
political obligation
questioning
Questioning Form
reading
Rousseau's Text
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Rousseau’s Text
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Traditional Philosophical Discourse
work
writing
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- ISBN 9781138624221
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 152 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 responds to an ethical injunction, to a duty to recall the necessary incalculability of moral and political responsibility. In the first part of the study, Patrick examines the philosophical background to and the basic features of deconstruction. Derrida is located in a tradition of thinkers for whom the question of the possibility of philosophy is fundamental. The deconstructive endeavour is then explained as an attempt to secure a question that would further and transform thinking, a question that would no longer be philosophy's question. Patrick maintains that Derrida's strategy to this end is not anarchic, but rather adheres to strict protocols of reading. Subsequently, the ethical and political implications of this manner of reading are pursued. It is shown that if Derrida undermines the certainty with which we may assume moral and political responsibilities, if he establishes the essential excessiveness of responsibility, he does so in order to effect judgement and not to annul it.
