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The Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique

The Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique

Gaon, Stella

Hardcover

Series: Psychoanalytic Political Theory

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1138610828
ISBN13: 9781138610828
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 11 2019
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner of the 2020 Symposium Book Award by the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy

Stella Gaon provides the first fully philosophical account of the critical nature of deconstruction, and she does so by turning in an original way to psychoanalysis. Drawing on close readings of Freud and Laplanche, Gaon argues that Derridean deconstruction is driven by a normative investment in reason's psychological force. Indeed, deconstruction is more faithful to the principle of reason than the various forms of critical theory prevalent today. For if one pursues the classical demand for rational grounds vigilantly, one finds that claims to ethical or political legitimacy cannot be rationally justified, because they are undone by logical undecidability. Gaon's argument is borne out in the cases of Kantian deontology, Deweyan pragmatism, progressive pedagogy, Habermasian moral theory, Levinasian ethics and others. What emerges is the groundbreaking demonstration that deconstruction is impelled by a quasi-ethical critical drive, and that to read deconstructively is to radicalize the emancipatory practice of reason as self-critique.

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