Derrida after the End of Writing Political Theology and New Materialism / Clayton Crockett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crockett, Clayton, 1969- author.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages )

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

NY Fordham University Press 2017

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What are we to make of Jacques Derrida’s famous claim that “every other is every other,” if the other could also be an object, a stone or an elementary particle? Derrida’s philosophy is relevant not just for human ethical language and animality, but to profound developments in the physical and natural sciences, as well as ecology. Derrida After the End of Writing argues for the importance of reading Derrida’s later work from a new materialist perspective. In conversation with Heidegger, Lacan, and Deleuze, and critically engaging newer philosophies of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology, Crockett claims that Derrida was never a linguistic idealist. Furthermore, something changes in his later philosophy something that cannot be simply described as a “turn.” In Catherine Malabou’s terms, there is a shift from a motor scheme of writing to a motor scheme of plasticity. Crockett explores some of the implications of interpreting Derrida through the new materialist lens of technicity or plasticity, attending to the significance of ethics, religion, and politics in his later work. By reading Derrida from a new materialist perspective, Crockett provides fresh readings of his ideas of sovereignty, religion, responsibility, and mourning. These new readings produce fruitful engagements with the thinkers who have followed Derrida, including Malabou, Timothy Morton, John D. Caputo, and Karen Barad. Here is a new reading of Derrida that moves beyond conventional understandings of poststructuralism and deconstruction, a reading that is responsive to and critical of some of the crucial developments shaping the humanities today.

Contents:

Derrida and the new materialism

Reading Derrida reading religion

Surviving Christianity

Political theology without sovereignty

Interrupting Heidegger with a ram: Derrida's reading of Celan

Derrida, Lacan, and object-oriented ontology: philosophy of religion at the end of the world

Radical theology and the event: Caputo's Derridean gospel

Deconstructive plasticity: Malabou's biological materialism

Quantum Derrida: Barad's hauntological materialism

The sins of the fathers, a love letter.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780823277858

0823277852

9780823277865

0823277860

OCLC:

1017612104

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