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 »
tangents on foucault, history, identity politics, etc…
Posted in End of History, Marx, Specters of Marx, ghosts, law, place, racism, signification, time, tagged feminism, Foucault, identity politics, queer, Society Must Be Defended, subjectivity on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When reading Spectres of Marx and coming across the phrase “the time is out of joint” again and again, I recalled the explorations of Foucault in Society Must Be Defended.
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 [...]
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