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Author Derrida, Jacques

Title Deconstruction in a nutshell : a conversation with Jacques Derrida / edited with a commentary by John D. Caputo
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 215 pages)
Series Perspectives in continental philosophy, 1089-3938 ; no. 1
Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 1. 1089-3938
Contents pt. 1. The Villanova Roundtable : a conversation with Jacques Derrida -- pt. 2. A commentary : deconstruction in a nutshell: Deconstruction in a nutshell : the very idea(!). The right to philosophy. KhĂ´ra : being serious with Plato. Community without community. Justice, if such a thing exists. The messianic : waiting for the future. Re-Joyce, say "Yes". A concluding amen
Summary 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 clarity and eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, 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 ethico-political thrust of this work
The Roundtable is annotated by John D. Caputo, the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, who has supplied cross-references to Derrida's writings, where the reader may find further discussion on these topics. Professor Caputo has also supplied a commentary which elaborates the principal issues raised in the Roundtable
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and indexes
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Subject Derrida, Jacques -- Interviews
SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques fast
Subject Philosophers -- France -- Interviews
Deconstruction.
Philosophy.
Justice (Philosophy)
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Philosophy
Deconstructivist.
philosophy.
deconstruction (theory)
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophy
Justice (Philosophy)
Deconstruction
Philosophers
Deconstructie.
France
Genre/Form Electronic books
Interviews
Form Electronic book
Author Caputo, John D., editor, writer of added commentary
ISBN 0585171084
9780585171081
9780823290680
0823290689