Deconstruction, its force, its violence : together with "Have we done with the empire of judgment?" / Rodolphe Gasché.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasché, Rodolphe, author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstruction.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Rodolphe Gasché returns to some of the founding texts of deconstruction to propose a new and broader way of understanding it—not as an operation or method to reach an elusive outside, or beyond, of metaphysics, but as something that takes place within it. Rather than unraveling metaphysics, deconstruction loosens its binary and hierarchical conceptual structure. To make this case, Gasché focuses on the concepts of force and violence in the work of Jacques Derrida, looking to his essays "Force and Signification" and "Force of Law," and his reading on Of Grammatology in Claude Lévi-Strauss's autobiographical Tristes Tropiques. The concept of force has not drawn extensive scrutiny in Derrida scholarship, but it is crucial to understanding how, by way of spacing and temporizing, philosophical opposition is reinscribed into a differential economy of forces. Gasché concludes with an essay addressing the question of deconstruction and judgment and considers whether deconstruction suspends the possibility of judgment, or whether it is, on the contrary, a hyperbolic demand for judgment.

Contents:

The force of deconstruction

The possibility of deconstruction

The violence of deconstruction

Have we done with the empire of judgment?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438460024

1438460023

OCLC:

941695597