E. Jeffrey Popke advocates that poststructuralist ethics needs to be taken more seriously in human geography. He believes that poststructuralist theory “offers the potential to break down existing categories of power and knowledge, and thereby to foster alternative narratives, which have the [...]
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E. Popke: ‘Postructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility, Community’
Posted in Levinas, borders, ethics, justice, racism, space, spacing, trace on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Derrida: critic of Levinas?
Posted in Levinas, ethics, time, trace on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Summary post by David Tomlinson : An example of Derridian dogmatism par excellence (which I think would be enough to make Derrida cringe, with Hägglund’s adherence to what he paradoxically describes as ‘deconstructive logic’), “The Necessity of Discrimination” aims to break apart Derrida and Levinas entirely by pointing to the violence Derrida understands as constitutive [...]
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