Deconstruction after 9/11 / by Martin McQuillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McQuillan, Martin.

Series:

Routledge research in cultural and media studies.

Routledge research in cultural and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Terrorism--Philosophy.

Terrorism.

Deconstruction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia and Afghanistan to Palestine and Baghdad. His 'textual activism' is as impatient with the universal gestures of philosophy as it is with the complacency and reductionism of policy-makers and activists alike. This work records a response to the war on thinking that has marked western discours

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Infinite Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Deconstruction After 9/11; 1 Wars and Rumours of Wars; 2 The Eternal Battle for the Domination of the World, or, Forget Kosovo; 3 Tele-Techno-Theology; 4 Extraordinary Rendition: Derrida and Vietnam; 5 Derrida and Policy: Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science?; 6 Spectres of Poujade: Naomi Klein and the New International; 7 Promises, Promises (This Is Also Why . . . ); 8 Hungary in Deconstruction; 9 Enosis, or, 'The Sovereignty of Cyprus'

10 'The Last Jewish Intellectual': Edward Said and the Deconstruction of PalestineEpilogue: War and Philosophy; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-89112-5

1-281-79682-4

9786611796822

0-203-89110-4

9780203891100

OCLC:

476183790