Ecart and Differance |
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| Editor:
| Dillon, M. C. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57392-584-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
| Publisher: | Globe Pequot Press, The
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| Imprint: | Humanity Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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Merleau-Ponty and Derrida articulate two overlaping but divergent ways of thinking about differentiation, écart and différance. This volume represents the viewpoints of fifteen leading North American scholars working in the fields of Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and postmodernism. These scholars, in essays written expressly for this volume, address the matrix of thought underlying contemporary responses to postmodernsim at large and deconstructionism in particular: identity...
More DescriptionMerleau-Ponty and Derrida articulate two overlaping but divergent ways of thinking about differentiation, écart and différance. This volume represents the viewpoints of fifteen leading North American scholars working in the fields of Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and postmodernism. These scholars, in essays written expressly for this volume, address the matrix of thought underlying contemporary responses to postmodernsim at large and deconstructionism in particular: identity and difference, community and alterity, self and other, metaphysics and its closure, language and its beyond, signification and referentiality.