Heidegger and Derrida: Reflections on Time and Language - Hardcover

Rapaport, Herman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803238878 ISBN 13: 9780803238879

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1989

Synopsis

As the spell of Jacques Derrida grows stronger, with more translations and analyses appearing every season, it is possible--and necessary--to determine what in his work is truly new and what continues philosophical and literary traditions. Although Martin Heidegger ahs been mentioned before as a precursor of deconstruction, Herman Rapaport is the first to develop the connections between the writings of the German philosopher and Derrida.

Heidegger and Derrida discusses the French philosopher's adoption of certain Heideggerean themes and his extension or overturning of them. But Rapaport does more than show how deconstruction builds on the philosophical foundations laid by Heidegger (and also by Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud). In the most comprehensive study of Derrida's works to date, he tackles the problem of writing an intellectual history about a figure who has put into question the possibility of such a construction and acknowledges Derrida's concerns with Jewish history in relation to Western thought.

About this title

About the Author

Herman Rapaport, an associate professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Iowa, is the author of Milton and the Postmodern.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803238878
• ISBN 13: 9780803238879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277