Desire in Ashes
Subtitle: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781472529138
Subjects: Derrida, jacques, 1930-2004; Desire; Deconstruction
Description: "The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its  significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well. Repositioned on the threshold of  life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the  deconstructive corpus to ashes."--Bloomsbury Publishing.