Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy - Softcover

Christopher Norris; Richard Beardsworth; Michael Dillon; Maja Zehfuss; Christina Howells; Jenny Edkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074862547X ISBN 13: 9780748625475

Verlag: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

death of Jacques Derrida in 2004 represented a major interruption in contemporary intellectual life. This death calls for an engagement with Derrida's work and an attempt to understand his legacy. Such a discussion is fraught with tension between remaining faithful after death and putting Derrida's writing to work in new directions, posing challenges and exposing limitations. In short this legacy is, necessarily, a negotiation. The aim of this book is to grapple with this specific theme and to explore the implications of Derrida's death for the future of critical thought itself. The authors demonstrate that there is no single way to adopt or inherit Derrida's thought. Rather, through their engagement with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies, each chapter illuminates the degree to which on-going reflection, radical critique, and above all radical self-critique are demanded by deconstruction. This book provides the key st

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Madeleine Fagan is an Institute of Advanced Studies Global Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is co-editor of Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

Marie Suetsugu is a member of the Aberystwyth Post-International Group, a postgraduate-led research group which has been based in the Department of Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth since 1993.

Madeleine Fagan is Institute of Advanced Studies Global Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick at the University of Warwick Marie Suetsugu is Member of the Aberystwyth Post-International Group at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh Univ. Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 074862547X
• ISBN 13: 9780748625475
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246
• Herausgeber: Madeleine Fagan, Ludovic Glorieux, Indira Hasimbegovic, Marie Suetsugu
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