Reconsidering difference
Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze
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Author
Publication
1997 - Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa, Pennsylvania
Language
English
Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1002874M
- ISBN-100271016574
- OCLC Control Number35317954
- Library of Congress Control Number96042210
- Goodreads1728954
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- LibraryThing1368494
Classifications
- DDC194
- LCCB105.D5 M38 1997
Description
French philosophy since World War II has been preoccupied with the issue of difference. For some thinkers, especially Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilles Deleuze, this preoccupation has led to a mode of philosophizing that privileges difference as a philosophical category. Reconsidering Difference has a twofold task, the primary one critical and the secondary one reconstructive. The critical task is to show that these various privilegings are philosophical failures. They wind up, for reasons unique to each position, endorsing positions that are either incoherent or implausible. Todd May considers the incoherencies of each position and offers an alternative approach. His reconstructive task, which he calls "contingent holism," takes the phenomena under investigationcommunity, language, ethics, and ontology - and sketches a way of reconceiving them that preserves the motivations of the rejected positions without falling into the problems that beset them.
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