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Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History

  • ISBN-13: 9781786610812
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.
  • By Sean Gaston
  • Price: AUD $96.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/01/2019
  • Format: Paperback (226.00mm X 152.00mm) 348 pages Weight: 517g
  • Categories: Philosophy: logic [HPL]
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This important new book argues that Jacques Derrida's work can be treated as the basis for a distinctive historiography. The possibility of seeing Derrida not as a philosopher of language but as a philosopher of history has become more apparent with the recent publication of Derrida's 1964-1965 seminar Heidegger: The Question of Being and History. We now know that the problem of history was at the heart of Derrida's writing in the mid-1960s, prior to the publication of his best-known work, Of Grammatology (1967). Arguing that Derrida's scholarship in the 1960s and early 1970s on historicism, historicity and the problem of history can be treated as the basis for a philosophy of history, Sean Gaston focuses on Derrida's work from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s and his relentless questioning of context, memory and narrative as the delineation of a deconstructive historiography. The book raises a challenge for historians to think about both deconstruction and historiography, arguing that contemporary philosophy can provide a basis for thinking about history in the name of a deconstructive historiography that is not incompatible with rigorous historical scholarship.
Acknowledgments Preface: The Problem of History Part One: A Philosophy of History 1. History and Historicism 2. History and Historicity 3. History and Deconstruction Part Two: A Deconstructive Historiography 4. History, Context, Mi-lieu 5. A History of Contexts 6. History, Memory, and Memoir 7. The Problem of Historical Memory 8. History, Event, and Narrative 9. A Witness of a Witness Bibliography Index About the Author
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