Deconstruction In A Nutshell

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823290680

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Deconstruction in a Nutshell by Jacques Derrida Pdf

This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language. 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 unusual clarity and great eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, community, and the messianic. Derrida refutes the charges of relativism that are often leveled at deconstruction by its critics and sets forth the profoundly affirmative and ethico-political thrust of his work. The roundtable is marked by an unusual clarity that continues into the second part of the book, in which one of Derrida’s most influential readers, John D. Caputo, elaborates upon Derrida’s comments and supplies material for further discussion. This edition also includes a substantial new Introduction by Caputo that discusses the original context of the book and traces the development of deconstruction since Derrida’s death in 2004, from the rise of new materialisms to return to religion. Long one of the most lucid and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language, and an ideal volume for students, Deconstruction in a Nutshell will also prove illuminating for those already familiar with Derrida’s work.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120323107

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Deconstruction in a Nutshell by Jacques Derrida Pdf

Author : Drucilla Cornell,Michel Rosenfeld,David Gray Carlson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134935154

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Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice by Drucilla Cornell,Michel Rosenfeld,David Gray Carlson Pdf

The purpose of this volume is to rethink the questions posed by Derrida's writings and his unique philosophical positioning, without reference to the catch phrases that have supposedly summed up deconstruction.

Author : Ronald T. Michener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317143437

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Engaging Deconstructive Theology by Ronald T. Michener Pdf

Engaging Deconstructive Theology presents an evangelical approach for theological conversation with postmodern thinkers. Themes are considered from Derrida, Foucault, Mark C. Taylor, Rorty, and Cupitt, developing dialogue from an open-minded evangelical perspective. Ron Michener draws upon insights from radical postmodern thought and seeks to advance an apologetic approach to the Christian faith that acknowledges a mosaic of human sources including experience, literature, and the imagination.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226816074

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Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida Pdf

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence—the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writing—for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,—new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkers—challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441200363

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What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture) by John D. Caputo Pdf

This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs idols of the church, and imagines the future of the church in addressing the practical implications of this for the church's life through liturgy, worship, preaching, and teaching. Students of philosophy, theology, religion, and ministry, as well as others interested in engaging postmodernism and the emerging church phenomenon, will welcome this provocative, non-technical work.

Author : Martin Koci,Joeri Schrijvers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666908428

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The European Reception of John D. Caputo’s Thought by Martin Koci,Joeri Schrijvers Pdf

This book gathers the European reception of John. D. Caputo's proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo. This volume so aims to strengthen the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.

Author : Charles Bambach
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438445823

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Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice by Charles Bambach Pdf

What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice situates the problem of justice in the interdisciplinary space between philosophy and poetry in an effort to explore the sources of ethical life in a new way. Charles Bambach engages the works of two philosophical poets who stand as the bookends of modernity—Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Paul Celan (1920–1970)—offering close textual readings of poems from each that define and express some of the crucial problems of German philosophical thought in the twentieth century: tensions between the native and the foreign, the proper and the strange, the self and the other. At the center of this philosophical conversation between Hölderlin and Celan, Bambach places the work of Martin Heidegger to rethink the question of justice in a nonlegal, nonmoral register by understanding it in terms of poetic measure. Focusing on Hölderlin's and Heidegger's readings of pre-Socratic philosophy and Greek tragedy, as well as on Celan's reading of Kabbalah, he frames the problem of poetic justice against the trauma of German destruction in the twentieth century.

Author : Kevin Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823220494

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The Trespass of the Sign by Kevin Hart Pdf

The Trespass of the Sign offers a clear and thorough account of the relations between deconstruction and theology. Kevin Hart argues that, contrary to popular thought on the topic, deconstruction does not have an antitheological agenda. Rather, deconstruction seeks to question the metaphysics of any theology. Hart pays particular attention to mystical theology as nonmetaphysical theology.

Author : Vernon W Cisney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780748695645

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Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon by Vernon W Cisney Pdf

The essential toolkit for anyone reading this seminal Derrida text for the first time

Author : Andreas Rasche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790819762

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The Paradoxical Foundation of Strategic Management by Andreas Rasche Pdf

At last – a systematic critique of the scientific discourse of strategic management. This fantastic book uncovers scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that by upholding these assumptions researchers obscure the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To uncover the paradoxes of strategic management the author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. He delves into the internal contradictions that inevitably occur when theorizing about corporate strategy along the dimensions strategy context, process, and content and shows how these paradoxes can enrich future thinking about strategic problems.

Author : Mark Dooley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472523402

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Moral Matters by Mark Dooley Pdf

Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming is Mark Dooley's attempt to offer an alternative to 'Cyberia'. It is a book about home, memory and identity. At a time when people are rapidly disengaging from those forms of life which once bound them together, it can be argued that our happiness depends on saving and conserving them. We cannot flourish in isolation or by detaching from the social sphere which surrounds us. We cannot truly prosper or progress if we choose to forget where we came from or if we dismiss our inherited moral wisdom. And yet, in opting for loss, separation and homelessness, it seems we have done just that. We have opted for a rootless existence where alienation and amnesia are the norm. This powerful and passionate book shows how the alienated, 'postmodern' self can become re-rooted to time and place and restored to full humanity and happiness whilst moving in a virtual, hyperconnected world. In caring for creation, conserving culture and saving the sacred we can once again make our home in the world and experience the consolation of moving from loss to love.

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823289202

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In Search of Radical Theology by John D. Caputo Pdf

These sparkling essays from a seasoned scholar are “a great breath of fresh air in our claustrophobic and catastrophic time” (Cornel West). Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful argumentation, and sophisticated analysis transmitted through the lucid, accessible prose that has earned the author a wide readership of academics and non-academics alike. In tackling “radical theology,” John D. Caputo has in mind the deeper stream that courses its way through various historical and confessional theologies, upon which these theologies draw even while it disturbs them from within. They are well served by this disturbance because it keeps them on their toes. When we read about professional theologians’ losing their jobs in confessional institutions, the chances are that, by earnestly digging into what is going on in their tradition, they have hit upon radical theological rock. Unlike modernist dismissals of religion, radical theology does not debunk but re-invents the theological tradition. Radical theology, Caputo says, is a double deconstruction—of supernatural theology on the one hand and of transcendental reason on the other, and therefore of the settled distinctions between the religious and the secular. Caputo also addresses the challenge for radical theology to earn a spot in the curriculum, given that the “radical” makes it suspect among the confessional seminaries while the “theology” renders it suspect among university seminars. Journeying from the academy to contemporary American culture, In Search of Radical Theology includes a captivating presentation of radical political theology for the time of Trump. This utterly unique volume not only brings readers on an enlightening tour of Caputo’s thought but also invites us to accompany the author as he travels into intriguing new territories.

Author : Neal J. Anthony
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725282193

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Promising Nothing by Neal J. Anthony Pdf

Can the categories of classical Lutheran Christology be unleashed to express the vitality of christological existence, an existence situated between Promise and experience? If, as Martin Luther famously asserted in his Heidelberg Disputation (1518), "true theology and recognition of God are in the crucified Christ," then such a theological point of departure not only bore radical implications for his Christology, but indeed also bears profound significance for theological discussions around the Word of Promise, its structure, its experience, its plurality. With regard to the elaboration of the two natures of Jesus Christ, such a point of departure permits a delineation of Promise--"the body of Promise"--who is bound to, who suffers, the nihil of human existence. Which means: such a point of departure affords us equally the opportunity to consider and probe the implications of the nihil as the medium of both threat and Promise. Is this a promising threat? Or a threatening Promise? Ultimately, Promise is delineated from within hermeneutical origins--the christological function of Scripture, the text--and, developed through to its diverse expression as the body of Promise, translated into christological existence. Within this context, categories of classical Lutheran Christology begin to express new vitality. Along the way, the Word of Promise--as developed within the trajectory of Luther's theology of the cross and his radical delineation of the two natures of Jesus Christ--receives further sharpening within the context of discussion with such theological voices as John Caputo and Jacques Derrida, Hans Holbein the Younger, Albert Schweitzer, Matthias Grunewald, Carl Braaten, Karl Barth, Michael Welker, and Samuel Terrien. Ultimately, we are permitted to confess: There is one Crucified. And he is plural.

Author : Simon Glendinning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192803450

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Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Glendinning Pdf

"Simon Glendinning explores both the difficulty and significance of the work of Derrida, arguing that his challenging ideas make a significant contribution to philosophy."--P. [2] of cover.