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Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida

Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida

Caputo, John D.
Derrida, Jacques

Paperback

Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0823217558
ISBN13: 9780823217557
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Jan 1 1996
Pages: 215
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, the community, the distinction between the messianic and the concrete messianisms, and his interpretation of James Joyce. Derrida convincingly refutes the charges of relativism and nihilism that are often leveled at deconstruction by its critics and sets forth the profoundly affirmative and ethico-political thrust of his work. The Roundtable is marked by the unusual clarity of Derrida's presentation and by the deep respect for the great works of the philosophical and literary tradition with which he characterizes his philosophical work.

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