Labyrinths of exemplarity : at the limits of deconstruction / Irene E. Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Irene E., 1953-

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Derrida, Jacques.

Example.

Paradigm (Theory of knowledge).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity—or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what examples are and where they come from to the complex key issues of how examples function in the discourses they inhabit and what this functioning tells us about the nature of examples or exemplarity itself. The problem is treated especially in connection to Rousseau and Aristotle, with reference to deconstruction (especially Derrida) and the range of Western metaphysics. Ultimately, a new theory of examples is offered, one not drawn from the assumptions made by earlier philosophers but rather from the usage and functioning of examples in philosophical discourse.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface: Dimensions of Exemplarity

Introduction: Exemplarity as the Elixir of Thinking

Threads of Exemplarity

For Emile

For Sophie

For Us

Theories of Exemplarity

Thematized

The Unthematized Theories of Exemplarity

Exemplarity and Deconstructibility

Derrida’s Rousseau

The Rhetorics of Exemplarity

Theories of Rhetorics and the Places of Example

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.

ISBN:

9780791488126

0791488128

9780585483276

0585483272

OCLC:

61367519