Derrida: Profanations
Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical. The assertion demands an analysis of Derrida's radicalisation of the key philosophers who influenced him, as well as a rebuttal of theological accounts of deconstruction. This book closely examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.

This book presents a theorisation of deconstruction as profane, atheistic and egalitarian. It reveals how deconstruction holds the resources to think ontology as a multiplicity of worlds through demonstrates the ways in which Derrida expresses a 'phenomenology' which disjoints humans' orientation to the world. Deconstruction is characterized as radically hubristic. For deconstruction, nothing is sacred. If nothing sustains itself as separate, exclusive or sacrosanct, then nothing can sustain the implementation of its own hierarchy.

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Derrida: Profanations
Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical. The assertion demands an analysis of Derrida's radicalisation of the key philosophers who influenced him, as well as a rebuttal of theological accounts of deconstruction. This book closely examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.

This book presents a theorisation of deconstruction as profane, atheistic and egalitarian. It reveals how deconstruction holds the resources to think ontology as a multiplicity of worlds through demonstrates the ways in which Derrida expresses a 'phenomenology' which disjoints humans' orientation to the world. Deconstruction is characterized as radically hubristic. For deconstruction, nothing is sacred. If nothing sustains itself as separate, exclusive or sacrosanct, then nothing can sustain the implementation of its own hierarchy.

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Derrida: Profanations

Derrida: Profanations

by Patrick O'Connor
Derrida: Profanations

Derrida: Profanations

by Patrick O'Connor

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Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical. The assertion demands an analysis of Derrida's radicalisation of the key philosophers who influenced him, as well as a rebuttal of theological accounts of deconstruction. This book closely examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.

This book presents a theorisation of deconstruction as profane, atheistic and egalitarian. It reveals how deconstruction holds the resources to think ontology as a multiplicity of worlds through demonstrates the ways in which Derrida expresses a 'phenomenology' which disjoints humans' orientation to the world. Deconstruction is characterized as radically hubristic. For deconstruction, nothing is sacred. If nothing sustains itself as separate, exclusive or sacrosanct, then nothing can sustain the implementation of its own hierarchy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441181701
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/08/2010
Series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy , #49
Pages: 206
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Patrick O'Connor is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the Institute for Cultural Analysis and the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham-Trent University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 There Is No World without End (Salut): Derrida's Phenomenology of the Extra-mundane 12

Chapter 2 Exit Ghost: Derrida, Hegel and the Theatre of Time 37

Chapter 3 Deconstruction is Profanation 60

Chapter 4 Absolute Profanation: The Deconstructs of Christianity 84

Chapter 5 There May Be No Community Whatsoever: Towards the Destruction of Morality and Community in Deconstruction 109

Chapter 6 Equality without Measure: The Deconstructed Democracy of Worlds 131

Conclusion 157

Notes 168

Bibliography 188

Index 199

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