Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 293
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788120827646
Description
It is now widely accepted that The Ethics of Deconstruction was the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida’s work and to show as powerfully as possible how deconstruction has persuasive ethical consequences that were vital to our thinking through of question of politics and democracy.
Now reissued with three new appendices, which restate as well as reflect upon and deepen the book’s arguments, The Ethics of Deconstruction is undoubtedly the standard work in the field.
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface to Second Edition
Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments
THE ETHICS OF DECONSTRUCTION:
THE ARGUMENT
Introduction
Levinasion Ethics
Derrida and Levinas: An Emerging Homology
Derrida’s Double-Handed treatment of Ethics
Deconstructive Reading and the Problem of Closure
From Text to Context: Deconstruction and the
Thought of an Unconditional Ethical Imperative
The Ethics of Reading: Hillis Miller’s Version
Notes
THE PROBLEM OF CLOSURE IN Derrida
INTRODUCTION
THE Sense of Closure
The Cenesis of Closure in Derrida’s Reading
of Husserl
The closure of Metaphysics
Heidegger and Derrida: Closure and the
End of Philosophy
Clotoral Reading
Notes
COLOTURAL READINGS I: ‘BOIS’ - DERRIDA’S FINAL
WORD ON LEVINAS
How the Work Works
How Levinas Writes his Work
How Levinas’s Work does not Work
How the Work is Given to Levinas
Notes
CLOTURAL READINGS II: WHOLLY OTHERWISE:
LEVINAS’S READING OF DERRIDA
It’s Today Tomorrow
Skepticism
Indication
Notes
A QUESTION OF POLITICS: THE FUTURE OF
DECONSTRUCTION
Introduction
The Question of the Question: An Ethico-Political
Response to a Note in Of Spirit
Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy: Re-tracing the Political
A Levinasian Politics of Ethical Difference
Conclusion: Philosophy, Politics, and Democracy
Notes
Appendix 1:
The ethics of Deconstruction: An Attempt at Self-Criticism
Appendix 2:
Habermas and Derrida Get Married
Appendix 3:
Emmanuel Levinas
Index