Derrida profanations Patrick O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Patrick, author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Deconstruction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Continuum 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical. The assertion demands an analysis of Derrida's radicalisation of the key philosophers who influenced him, as well as a rebuttal of theological accounts of deconstruction. This book closely examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger. This book presents a theorisation of deconstruction as profane, atheistic and egalitarian. It reveals how deconstruction holds the resources to think ontology as a multiplicity of worlds through demonstrates the ways in which Derrida expresses a 'phenomenology' which disjoints humans' orientation to the world. Deconstruction is characterized as radically hubristic. For deconstruction, nothing is sacred. If nothing sustains itself as separate, exclusive or sacrosanct, then nothing can sustain the implementation of its own hierarchy

Contents:

There is no world without end (Salut) : Derrida's phenomenology of the extra-mundane

Exit ghost : Derrida, Hegel and the Theatre of Time

Deconstruction in profanation

Absolute profanation : the deconstruction of Christianity

There may be no community whatsoever : towards the destruction of morality and community in deconstruction

EDquality without measure: the deconstructive democracy of worlds

Introduction

1. Exit Ghost: Derrida, Husserl, Hegel and the Theatre of Time

2. There Is No World Without End (Salut): Derrida's Phenomenology of the Extra-Mundane

3. Deconstruction is Profanation

4. There May Be No Community Whatsoever: Towards the Destruction of Morality and Community in Deconstruction

5. Absolute Profanation: The Deconstruction of Charity

6. Egalitarianism Without Measure: Equality and Freedom in Derrida

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786612576843

9781472546401

1472546407

9781282576841

1282576844

9781441124333

1441124330

OCLC:

630543340