Leonard Lawlor’s “From the Trace to the Law: Derridean Politics,” aims to situate Derrida’s later political engagements in terms of his earlier work on language, namely how Derrida’s work in political theory is informed by his critique of metaphysics. By focusing on Derrida’s insistence on the irreducible metaphoricity of language, as well as his concepts [...]
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L. Lawlor: ‘From the Trace to the Law: Derridean Politics’
Posted in Force of Law, Husserl, justice, law, signification, trace on November 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
L. Lawlor : ‘Looking for Noon at Two O’Clock: An Investigation of Specters of Marx’
Posted in Heidegger, Husserl, Levinas, Specters of Marx, ghosts, tagged Derrida, Heidegger, Husserl, Levinas, Nietzsche, Specters of Marx, the promise on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Personally, I enjoyed this essay quite a bit. Obviously, anyone who is considering a final paper on Specters would find this essay helpful for their research. However, less obviously, it would be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the thinkers that influence Derrida’s work (or, more precisely, the thinkers [...]
Derrida : clotural readings
Posted in Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Levinas, closure, diachrony, ethics, indication, signification, skepticism on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Summary post by Anderson Mackenzie : This essay is a chapter taken from Critchley’s book, The Ethics of Deconstruction. The major project for the book as a whole is to illustrate Critchley’s contention that deconstruction, as a method of reading philosophy, necessarily involves an ethical demand. In an earlier chapter of the book Critchley makes [...]