Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence: Together with "have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?" by Gasché, Rodolphe

Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence: Together with "have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?" (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781438460017)

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Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence: Together with "have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?" by Gasché, Rodolphe

Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence: Together with "have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?"

$99.00
Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence: Together with "have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?" by Gasché, Rodolphe

Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence: Together with "have We Done with the Empire of Judgment?"

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Rodolphe Gasch returns to some of the founding texts of deconstruction to propose a new and broader way of understanding it--not as an operation or method to reach an elusive outside, or beyond, of metaphysics, but as something that takes place within it. Rather than unraveling metaphysics, deconstruction loosens its binary and hierarchical conceptual structure. To make this case, Gasch focuses on the concepts of force and violence in the work of Jacques Derrida, looking to his essays "Force and Signification" and "Force of Law," and his reading on Of Grammatology in Claude L vi-Strauss's autobiographical Tristes Tropiques. The concept of force has not drawn extensive scrutiny in Derrida scholarship, but it is crucial to understanding how, by way of spacing and temporizing, philosophical opposition is reinscribed into a differential economy of forces. Gasch concludes with an essay addressing the question of deconstruction and judgment and considers whether deconstruction suspends the possibility of judgment, or whether it is, on the contrary, a hyperbolic demand for judgment.

Author: Rodolphe Gasché
ISBN-10: 1438460015
ISBN-13: 9781438460017
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2016
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d

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By Rodolphe Gasché
By Rodolphe Gasché
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Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His many books include Views and Interviews: On "Deconstruction" in America and Europe, or the Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept.

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