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Sense and Affect

Sense and Affect

Soffer, Joshua

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 076182376X
ISBN13: 9780761823766
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Dec 17 2002
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sense and Affect exposes the limits of important recent strands in continental philosophy. It questions the necessity of a certain language of violence, otherness, disruption and pathos saturating Jacques Derrida's texts and the texts of those having a proximity to Derrida's deconstructionist project. This book establishes a connection between such affective terminology and a common, if heterogeneously expressed, theoretical inadequacy binding Derrida and writers such as Lyotard, Foucault, Caputo and Nancy. Their failure to penetrate a presumed irreducibility of suffering in the world is shown to be linked to their dependence on the assumption of an irreducible tension at the origin of meaning. This book develops a fresh method of thought thoroughly unraveling the presuppositions of deconstructive orientations and uncovering a finer silt of the world than is seen via such discourses.

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