The Ethics of Deconstruction
eBook - PDF

The Ethics of Deconstruction

Derrida and Levinas

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Ethics of Deconstruction

Derrida and Levinas

About this book

The first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work, this new edition contains three new appendixes and a new preface where Critchley reflects upon the origins, motivation and reception of 'The Ethics of Deconstruction'.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Preface to Third Edition
  6. Preface to Second Edition
  7. Prefatory Note and Acknowledgements
  8. 1 The Ethics of Deconstruction: The Argument
  9. 2 The Problem of Closure in Derrida
  10. 3 Clôtural Readings I: ‘Bois’ - Derrida’s Final Word on Levinas
  11. 4 Clôtural Readings II: Wholly Otherwise: Levinas’s Reading of Derrida
  12. 5 A Question of Politics: The Future of Deconstruction
  13. Appendix 1 The Ethics of Deconstruction: An Attempt at Self-Criticism
  14. Appendix 2 Habermas and Derrida Get Married
  15. Appendix 3 Emmanuel Levinas
  16. Appendix 4 Derrida: The Reader
  17. Appendix 5 Leaving the Climate of Heidegger’s Thinking
  18. Appendix 6 Five Problems in Levinas’s View of Politics and the Sketch of a Solution to Them
  19. Index