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The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction

The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy, Book 50

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0826497780
ISBN13: 9780826497789
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Aug 8 2008
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

In The Domestication of Derrida, Lorenzo Fabbri argues that Rorty's powerful reading protocol is motivated by the necessity to contain the risks of Derrida's critique of Western philosophy and politics.
Rorty claims that Derrida reduces philosophy to a production of private fantasies that do not have any political or epistemological relevance. Fabbri challenges such an aberrant appropriation by investigating the two key features of Rorty's privatization of deconstruction: the reduction of deconstructive writing to an example of merely autobiographical literature; and the idea that Derrida not only dismisses, but also mocks the desire to engage philosophy with political struggle.

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