Heidegger and Derrida: Reflections on Time and Language - Softcover

Rapaport, Herman

 
9780803289277: Heidegger and Derrida: Reflections on Time and Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803289278 ISBN 13: 9780803289277
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1991

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

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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.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0803289278
ISBN 13 
9780803289277
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
293