Taking on the tradition
Subtitle: Jacques Derrida and the legacies of deconstruction
By: Michael Naas
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Derrida, Jacques
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-211)
Table of contents: title: Introduction : signing off on tradition; title: A given take : the platonic reception of Plato in the pharmacy; title: Given time for a detour : the abyssal gift of "Khōra"; title: Stumping the sun : the odyssey of metaphor in "white mythology"; title: Derrida's watch/Foucault's pendulum : a final impetus to the cogito debate; title: Lacunae : divining Derrida's sources through "telepathy"; title: The phenomenon in question : violence, metaphysics, and the Levinasian third; title: Better believing it : translating skepticism in Memoirs of the blind; title: Just a turn away : apostrophe and the Politics of friendship; title: Hospitality as an open question : deconstruction's welcome politics; title: Conclusion : passing on the mantle : Elijah's Glas and the second coming of Dr. John Alexander Dowie