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The ethics of deconstruction : Derrida and Levinas /

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An expanded edition of the standard work in the field. Simon Critchley's The Ethics of Deconstruction, was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. It was his first book and the first to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work and to show as powerfully as possible how deconstruc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Critchley, Simon, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Derrida, Jacques.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Deconstruction.
Table of Contents:
  • The ethics of deconstruction: the argument
  • The problem of closure in Derrida
  • Clotural readings I: 'Bois', Derrida's final word on Levinas
  • Clotural readings II: wholly otherwise: Levinas' reading of Derrida
  • A question of politics: the future of deconstruction
  • Appendixes : The ethics of deconstruction: an attempt at self-criticism
  • Habermas and Derrida get married
  • Emmanuel Levinas
  • Derrida: the reader
  • Leaving the climate of Heidegger's thinking
  • Five problems in Levinas' view of politics and the sketch of a solution to them.