A01=Joshua Soffer
Author_Joshua Soffer
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- ISBN 9780761823766
- Weight: 236g
- Dimensions: 137 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2002
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sense and Affect exposes the limits of important recent strands in continental philosophy. It questions the necessity of a certain language of violence, otherness, disruption and pathos saturating Jacques Derrida's texts and the texts of those having a proximity to Derrida's deconstructionist project. This book establishes a connection between such affective terminology and a common, if heterogeneously expressed, theoretical inadequacy binding Derrida and writers such as Lyotard, Foucault, Caputo and Nancy. Their failure to penetrate a presumed irreducibility of suffering in the world is shown to be linked to their dependence on the assumption of an irreducible tension at the origin of meaning. This book develops a fresh method of thought thoroughly unraveling the presuppositions of deconstructive orientations and uncovering a finer silt of the world than is seen via such discourses.
Joshua Soffer is an independent Writer in Philosophy and Psychology living in Chicago.
