Derrida, myth, and the impossibility of philosophy / Anais Spitzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spitzer, Anais.

Series:

Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Myth.

Philosophy.

Derrida, Jacques.

Taylor, Mark C., 1945-.

Taylor, Mark C.

Physical Description:

xxv, 198 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2010]

Summary:

Bombarded by narratives that terrorize and repress, we may often consider myth to be constrictive dogma or, at best, something to be readily disregarded as unphilosophicai and irrelevant. However, such dismissals miss a crucial aspect of myth. Harnessing the insights of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction and Mark C. Taylor's philosophical reading of complexity theory, Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy provocatively reframes the pivotal relation of myth to thinking and to philosophy, demonstrating that myth's inherent ambiguity engenders vital and inescapable deconstructive propensities. Exploring myth's disruptive presence, Spitzer shows that philosophy cannot separate itself from myth. Instead, myth is an inevitable condition of the possibility of philosophy.

Anais N. Spitzer is a Visiting Instructor of Religious Studies at Prescott College, USA. She has also held positions at Hollins University, the University of New Mexico, and the College of Santa Fe. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 'What, after all, of the remain(s)...' 1

Chapter 2 Soliciting Philosophy's Tears 24

Chapter 3 Rend(er)ing the Pharmakon: A Wound without a Cure 46

Chapter 4 Secreting Myth: Thinking Sa Otherwise 92

Chapter 5 Myth and the Gift, If There is Any 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page) and index.

ISBN:

9781441117106

1441117105

9781441100207

1441100202

OCLC:

535494749