
Philosophy and Post-structuralist Theory
From Kant to Deleuze
Claire Colebrook(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Will be published approx. on 13. May 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-7486-2227-6 (ISBN)
Description
A critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory.Exploring the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, this book raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. Is it still possible to sustain a transcendental critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of cultural studies and anti-representationalism? Key Features* Original contribution to ethical and critical theory.* Situates poststructuralism in its philosophical background, and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment.* Offers a critique of various appeals made to a would-be post-metaphysical or post-human culture.First published in hardback as Ethics and Representation: From Kant to Post-Structuralism
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-2227-6 (9780748622276)
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Person
Professor of English at Penn State University. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Gilles Deleuze (2002), Understanding Deleuze (2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002), Gender (2003) and Irony: The New Critical Idiom (2003) and the co-editor of Deleuze and Feminist Theory (1999).
Content
Introduction; 1. Kant and Enlightenment Recognition; 2. Heidegger: Proximity and Dispersion; 3. Derrida: Responsibility without Autonomy; 4. Irigarary: The Specula(ra)tive Ec(h)hnomy; 5. Foucault: Anti-Representationalism and Logophobia; Conclusion: The Risk of Anthropomorphism; List of References; Index.