Derrida : negotiating the legacy / edited by Madeleine Fagan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fagan, Madeleine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

vii, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This volume is the very first interdisciplinary attempt to negotiate the profound legacy of Jacques Derrida's thought. Bringing together scholars including Richard Beardsworth, Christina Howells and Christopher Norris, it reflects critically on the legacy of one of the most prolific and controversial thinkers of our times. Jacques Derrida's death represents a major interruption in contemporary intellectual life. It demands mourning, calls for an engagement with his work, and requires an effort to understand his legacy. Yet this response is difficult and fraught with tensions, created by the need to both remain faithful after death, and to put Derrida's writing to work in new directions, to pose challenges and to expose limitations. In short this legacy is, necessarily, a negotiation. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume demonstrate through their chapters that there is no single way to adopt or inherit Derrida's thought. Rather, through their engagements with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies, they illuminate the degree to which ongoing reflection, radical critique, and above all radical self-critique are demanded by deconstruction. This motif of negotiation is the galvanising theme of the volume, providing the key starting-point for any serious assessment of what the implications of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers might be. Book jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748625468

0748625461

074862547X

9780748625475

OCLC:

77257075