Derrida, Responsibility and Politics

Name: Derrida, Responsibility and Politics
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Published in 1997, this book is an evaluation of prominent debates concerning the force and ethico-politico significance of Derrida\u2019s writing. > Published in 1997, Jacques Derrida's \u2019deconstructive method\u2019 or \u2019deconstructionism\u2019 is renowned as a species of anarchic free play, an antifoundationalism which can only end in a ruinous irrationalism and thereby the denial of all possibility of discrimination or judgement. In this book, Morag Patrick argues that far from having abandoned critique, Derrida's questioning of Western metaphysics responds to an ethical injunction, to a duty to recall the necessary incalculability of moral and political responsibility. In the first part of the study, Patrick examines the philosophical background to and the basic features of deconstruction. Derrida is located in a tradition of thinkers for whom the question of the possibility of philosophy is fundamental. The deconstructive endeavour is then explained as an attempt to s.