
Derrida: Profanations
Profanations
Patrick O'Connor(Author)
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 16. February 2012
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Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4411-7135-1 (ISBN)
Description
Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical. The assertion demands an analysis of Derrida's radicalisation of the key philosophers who influenced him, as well as a rebuttal of theological accounts of deconstruction. This book closely examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger. This book presents a theorisation of deconstruction as profane, atheistic and egalitarian. It reveals how deconstruction holds the resources to think ontology as a multiplicity of worlds through demonstrates the ways in which Derrida expresses a phenomenology' which disjoints humans' orientation to the world. Deconstruction is characterized as radically hubristic. For deconstruction, nothing is sacred. If nothing sustains itself as separate, exclusive or sacrosanct, then nothing can sustain the implementation of its own hierarchy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-7135-1 (9781441171351)
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Patrick O'Connor is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the Institute for Cultural Analysis and the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham-Trent University, UK.
Content
Introduction; 1. Exit Ghost: Derrida, Husserl, Hegel and the Theatre of Time; 2. There Is No World Without End (Salut): Derrida's Phenomenology of the Extra-Mundane; 3. Deconstruction is Profanation; 4. There May Be No Community Whatsoever: Towards the Destruction of Morality and Community in Deconstruction; 5. Absolute Profanation: The Deconstruction of Charity; 6. Egalitarianism Without Measure: Equality and Freedom in Derrida; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.