Jacques Derrida's aporetic ethics / Marko Zlomislic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zlomislić, Marko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques--Ethics.

Derrida, Jacques.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

Jacques Derrida's Aporetic Ethics offers a new and challenging approach to the study of Derrida's philosophy by arguing against the popular conception of Derrida as a philosophical relativist. Evaluating objective evidence and utilizing logical arguments, Marko Zlomislic argues that Derrida has been concerned with ethics since his first published works and demonstrates how the philosopher presented a new understanding of the concept of decision. Jacques Derrida's Aporetic Ethics is vital reading for anyone with an interest in this essential thinker of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Prefacing the Antiphon: Towards an Animal Theology xi

Introduction (Aporetology) 3

Chapter I Aporia and the Decisions of Undecidability Derrida's Logic of the Paradox and the Question of Violence (Only where there is Undecidability can there be Decisions) 19

Out of Socrates' Aporia: Beyond Shaming 25

Out of Plato's Pharmakon: Beyond Scapegoating 35

Out of the Dangerous Supplement of Levi-Strauss' Writing Lesson: Beyond Bordering 49

Out of Levinas' Totality and Infinity: Beyond Warring 67

Chapter II Aporia and the Responsibilities of Dissemination Derrida's Metaphysics of Excess and the Question of Responsibility (Only where there is Dissemination can there be Responsibility) 83

From Husserl's Signs To Responsible Givings Madness and Impossibility 87

From Heidegger's Times To Responsible Givings Oblivion and Mourning 111

From Hegel's Prefaces To Responsible Aleatory's not Binding and not being Bound 129

From Nietzsche's Perspectives To Responsible Givings Surprise and Generosity 143

Chapter III Aporia and the Ethical Subject of Differance Derrida's Psychology of the De-Centered Subjectile and the Question of the Person (Only where there is Differance within the Ethical Subject can there be a Responsible Choice-Making Person) 165

From Heidegger's Dasein to Derrida's Person: The Spectral Subject 169

From Nietzsche's Will to Power to Derrida's Person: The Responsible Subject 191

From Freud's Unconscious to Derrida's Person: The Scryptal Subject 201

From Saussure's Arbitrary to Derrida's Person: The Messianic Subject 215

Chapter IV Aporia and the Justice of Deconstruction Derrida's Epistemology of Embracing Uncertainty and the Question of Given Justice (Only when we have constant Deconstructions of Theories and Laws can we be moving towards Justice) 223

Mourning the never enough of precedents: Pregnant Impossibility 229

Waiting for the never enough of time: The Monstrous Arrivant 233

Wandering in the never enough of knowledge: Abraham beyond Ulysses 241

By choosing to decide in the urgent instant: Aporetic Nativities 247

Chapter V Aporetic Scapes (Towards a Derridean Theology) 263

Without Caputo's "Without" 265

Wholly Other than Critchley's Derrida (Beyond Zizek's Apropos) 283

The Unlimited Responsibility of Spilling Ink (Attending to what Searle can teach us) 297

Tasting the Scape of Ipseity (Derrida's Hopkins) 315

Conclusion: Aporetic Faith 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-346) and index.

ISBN:

073911218X

9780739112182

OCLC:

123293062