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Derrida [electronic resource] : Ethics Under Erasure.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum Studies in Continental PhilosophyPublication details: London : Continuum International Publishing, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (209 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781441140739
  • 9781441159427
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  • 170
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Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ethics Under Erasure; Redescribing Derrida: The Problems of 'Indeterminacy' and 'Freeplay'; The Irreducible Plurality of Ethics; Singular Trajectories; Chapter 1: The 'Ethics of Deconstruction'?; Ethical-Political Turns: Setting the Scene; Conversing with Critchley; Derrida's Reading of Levinas; Dancing with Derrida; Chapter 2: Ethical (Im)possibilities; The Subject as Play; Ethical Possibilities; (Im)possibility; The (Im)possibility of Justice; Nietzsche���Derrida���Levinas; Possible Manifestations.
Chapter 3: Ethics Under ErasurePrelude: A Discourse on Inheritance; Opening and Transformation: Two Strategic Necessities; Justice: Again, and Again; Ethics; Chapter 4: Ethical Experience: A Cinematic Example; Between Theory and Practice, an iteration; Contingent Norms: Todd Haynes' Homage to Douglas Sirk; From Absolute Responsibility to Ethical Singularity, a Diff��rance; An Ethical Encounter: Cathy and Cybil; Erasing the Subject; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Derrida's work is controversial, it's interpretation hotly contested. Derrida and an Ethics in Practice offers a new way of thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life. The book presents the development of Derrida's thinking on ethics by demonstrating that the ethical was a focus of Derrida's work at every stage of his career. In connecting Derrida's earlier work on language with the ethics implica.
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ethics Under Erasure; Redescribing Derrida: The Problems of 'Indeterminacy' and 'Freeplay'; The Irreducible Plurality of Ethics; Singular Trajectories; Chapter 1: The 'Ethics of Deconstruction'?; Ethical-Political Turns: Setting the Scene; Conversing with Critchley; Derrida's Reading of Levinas; Dancing with Derrida; Chapter 2: Ethical (Im)possibilities; The Subject as Play; Ethical Possibilities; (Im)possibility; The (Im)possibility of Justice; Nietzsche���Derrida���Levinas; Possible Manifestations.

Chapter 3: Ethics Under ErasurePrelude: A Discourse on Inheritance; Opening and Transformation: Two Strategic Necessities; Justice: Again, and Again; Ethics; Chapter 4: Ethical Experience: A Cinematic Example; Between Theory and Practice, an iteration; Contingent Norms: Todd Haynes' Homage to Douglas Sirk; From Absolute Responsibility to Ethical Singularity, a Diff��rance; An Ethical Encounter: Cathy and Cybil; Erasing the Subject; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Bibliography; Index.

Derrida's work is controversial, it's interpretation hotly contested. Derrida and an Ethics in Practice offers a new way of thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life. The book presents the development of Derrida's thinking on ethics by demonstrating that the ethical was a focus of Derrida's work at every stage of his career. In connecting Derrida's earlier work on language with the ethics implica.

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