Lucid Vigil Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique

Name: Lucid Vigil Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique
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ISBN: 9780429879036

ISBN-10: 0429879032

ISBN-13: 9780429879036

Edition: 2019

Authors: Stella Gaon

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Stella Gaon provides the first fully philosophical account of the critical nature of deconstruction, and she does so by turning in an original way to psychoanalysis. Drawing on close readings of Freud and Laplanche, Gaon argues that Derridean deconstruction is driven by a normative investment in reason's psychological force. Indeed, deconstruction is more faithful to the principle of reason than the various forms of critical theory prevalent today. For if one pursues the classical demand for rational grounds vigilantly, one finds that claims to ethical or political legitimacy cannot be rationally justified, because they are undone by logical undecidability. Gaon's argument is borne out in…

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List price: $30.83
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/6/2019
Pages: 278
Language: English