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Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction(Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction(Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)


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However widely - and differently - Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a ""foundational"" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy, or rather the most radical of skeptics? Are language-related themes - writing, semiosis - his central concern, or does he really write about something else? And does his thought form a system of its own, or does it primarily consist of commentaries on individual texts? This book seeks to address these questions by returning to what it claims is essential history: the development of Derrida's core thought through his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology. Joshua Kates recasts what has come to be known as the Derrida/Husserl debate, by approaching Derrida's thought historically, through its development. Based on this developmental work, ""Essential History"" culminates by offering discrete interpretations of Derrida's two book-length 1967 texts, interpretations that elucidate the until now largely opaque relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns. A fundamental reinterpretation of Derrida's project and the works for which he is best known, Kates's study fashions a new manner of working with the French thinker that respects the radical singularity of his thought as well as the often different aims of those he reads. Such a view is in fact ""essential"" if Derrida studies are to remain a vital field of scholarly inquiry, and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns.

Table of Contents:
1. The Success of Deconstruction: Derrida, Rorty, Gasche, Bennington, and the Quasi-Transcendental; 2. ""A Consistent Problematic of Writing and the Trace:"" The Debate in Derrida/Husserl Studies and the Problem of Derrida's Development; 3. Derrida's 1962 Interpretation of Writing and Truth: Writing in the ""Introduction to Husserl's 'Origin of Geometry'""; 4. The Development of Deconstruction as a Whole and the role of Le probleme de la genese dans la philosophie de Husserl; 5. Husserl's Circuit of Expression and the Phenomenological Voice: Speech and Phenomena; 6. Essential History: Derrida's Reading of Saussure and His Reworking of Heldeggerean History.

About the Author :
Joshua Kates is a tenured faculty member at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Review :
"A work of overpowering scholarship, which will not only significantly distance itself from other works in the field, but redefine the very terms of the discussion of the origin and nature of deconstruction for many years to come." --Burt C. Hopkins, Department of Philosophy, Seattle University "Essential History is clearly written and its scholarship is highly original. It is surely going to get a lot of attention as one of the two or three best books in English on its topic." --Andrew Cutrofello, author of Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction "[Joshua Kates's] scholarship is excellent . . . Essential History is a very original book . . . in competition with all of the serious works in the field." --Bernard Flynn, Graduate Faculty, New School University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780810123267
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Series Title: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • Sub Title: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
  • Width: 161 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0810123266
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 333 gr


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