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Fielding Derrida: Philosophy, Literary Criticism, History, and the Work of Deconstruction
Contributor(s): Kates, Joshua (Author)

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 ISBN: 0823229475     ISBN-13: 9780823229475
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Published: October 2008
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Annotation: How to interpret Derrida's work now after so much commentary has been devoted to his thought, and his own astonishing productivity has come to an end? In this groundbreaking collection, Joshua Kates argues that we must begin from a different frame than Derrida himself provides, by inserting his work into already existing fields, by "fielding Derrida." Is Derrida a skeptic? Does he subscribe to a death of meaning (and the "I") at the hands of a sign? Is his thought at all proximate to contemporary Marxian/post-Marxist thinking? Thanks to placing Derrida's texts in broader fields (such as Husserlian phenomenology and analytic philosophy of language) and subsequently nuancing what such comparisons yield, Kates's work capture Derrida's stances on these and other questions with a new concreteness and an unprecedented scope, forging links to vital debates across the humanities today.

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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
- Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology
Dewey: 194
LCCN: 2008026058
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.95 lbs) 300 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 11/14/2008 pg. 22
 
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How are we to interpret Jacques Derrida's writings now, after so much commentary has been devoted to his thought and his own astonishing productivity has come to an end? In this groundbreaking book, JoshuaKates extends his earlier contextualizing of Derrida's work in relation to Husserl by arguing that we must begin from a frame different from that provided by Derrida himself. His work must be inserted into alreadyexisting fields, thus fielding Derrida.By placing Derrida's texts in the context of broader fields (such as interpretations of modernity and analytic philosophy of language), Kates captures Derrida's stances with a new concreteness and an unprecedentedscope, forging links to vital debates across the humanities today.

Contributor Bio(s): Kates, Joshua: - JOSHUA KATES is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University and the author of Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction.
 
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