Derrida :
profanations /
Patrick O'Connor.
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| 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, demonstrating 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. Pursuing the notion of profanation, O'Connor argues that Derrida annuls the possibility of asserting hierarchical structures. --Book Jacket. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2010.
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| Series: | Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Physical description: x, 206 pages ; 25 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781441181701 1441181709 9781441171351 1441171355 |
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