Deconstruction In A Nutshell

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823290689
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction in a Nutshell written by Jacques Derrida and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language. Responding to questions put to him at a roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, community, and the messianic. Derrida refutes the charges of relativism that are often leveled at deconstruction by its critics and sets forth the profoundly affirmative and ethico-political thrust of his work. The roundtable is marked by an unusual clarity that continues into the second part of the book, in which one of Derrida’s most influential readers, John D. Caputo, elaborates upon Derrida’s comments and supplies material for further discussion. This edition also includes a substantial new Introduction by Caputo that discusses the original context of the book and traces the development of deconstruction since Derrida’s death in 2004, from the rise of new materialisms to return to religion. Long one of the most lucid and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language, and an ideal volume for students, Deconstruction in a Nutshell will also prove illuminating for those already familiar with Derrida’s work.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction in a Nutshell written by Jacques Derrida and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134935153
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice written by Drucilla Cornell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to rethink the questions posed by Derrida's writings and his unique philosophical positioning, without reference to the catch phrases that have supposedly summed up deconstruction.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816346
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissemination written by Jacques Derrida and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations of Plato, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Philippe Sollers’ writings in three essays: “Plato’s Pharmacy,” “The Double Session,” and “Dissemination.” “The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination—more than any previous work—Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to ‘deconstruct’ both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth.” —Peter Dews, The New Statesman

Author : Vernon W Cisney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748695648
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon written by Vernon W Cisney and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential toolkit for anyone reading this seminal Derrida text for the first time

Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791499944
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Derrida and Negative Theology written by Harold Coward and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-08-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the thought of Jacques Derrida as it relates to the tradition of apophatic thought—negative theology and philosophy—in both Western and Eastern traditions. Following the Introduction by Toby Foshay, two of Derrida's essays on negative theology, Of an Apocalyptic Tone Newly Adopted in Philosophy and How to Avoid Speaking: Denials, are reprinted here. These are followed by essays from a Western perspective by Mark C. Taylor and Michel Despland, and essays from an Eastern perspective by David Loy, a Buddhist, and Harold Coward, a Hindu. In the Conclusion, Jacques Derrida responds to these discussions.

Author : Kevin Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823220496
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trespass of the Sign written by Kevin Hart and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trespass of the Sign offers a clear and thorough account of the relations between deconstruction and theology. Kevin Hart argues that, contrary to popular thought on the topic, deconstruction does not have an antitheological agenda. Rather, deconstruction seeks to question the metaphysics of any theology. Hart pays particular attention to mystical theology as nonmetaphysical theology.

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781441200365
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture) written by John D. Caputo and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs idols of the church, and imagines the future of the church in addressing the practical implications of this for the church's life through liturgy, worship, preaching, and teaching. Students of philosophy, theology, religion, and ministry, as well as others interested in engaging postmodernism and the emerging church phenomenon, will welcome this provocative, non-technical work.

Author : Simon Glendinning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019280345X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Derrida: A Very Short Introduction written by Simon Glendinning and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simon Glendinning explores both the difficulty and significance of the work of Derrida, arguing that his challenging ideas make a significant contribution to philosophy."--P. [2] of cover.

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823289206
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Radical Theology written by John D. Caputo and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These sparkling essays from a seasoned scholar are “a great breath of fresh air in our claustrophobic and catastrophic time” (Cornel West). Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful argumentation, and sophisticated analysis transmitted through the lucid, accessible prose that has earned the author a wide readership of academics and non-academics alike. In tackling “radical theology,” John D. Caputo has in mind the deeper stream that courses its way through various historical and confessional theologies, upon which these theologies draw even while it disturbs them from within. They are well served by this disturbance because it keeps them on their toes. When we read about professional theologians’ losing their jobs in confessional institutions, the chances are that, by earnestly digging into what is going on in their tradition, they have hit upon radical theological rock. Unlike modernist dismissals of religion, radical theology does not debunk but re-invents the theological tradition. Radical theology, Caputo says, is a double deconstruction—of supernatural theology on the one hand and of transcendental reason on the other, and therefore of the settled distinctions between the religious and the secular. Caputo also addresses the challenge for radical theology to earn a spot in the curriculum, given that the “radical” makes it suspect among the confessional seminaries while the “theology” renders it suspect among university seminars. Journeying from the academy to contemporary American culture, In Search of Radical Theology includes a captivating presentation of radical political theology for the time of Trump. This utterly unique volume not only brings readers on an enlightening tour of Caputo’s thought but also invites us to accompany the author as he travels into intriguing new territories.