The Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction - Hardcover

Lorenzo Fabbri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826497780 ISBN 13: 9780826497789

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2008

Synopsis

In The Domestication of Derrida, Lorenzo Fabbri argues that Rortya's powerful reading protocol is motivated by the necessity to contain the risks of Derridaa's critique of Western philosophy and politics. Rorty claims that Derrida reduces philosophy to a production of private fantasies that do not have any political or epistemological relevance. Fabbri challenges such an aberrant appropriation by investigating the two key features of Rortya's privatization of deconstruction: the reduction of deconstructive writing to an example of merely autobiographical literature; and the idea that Derrida not only dismisses, but also mocks the desire to engage philosophy with political struggle. What is ultimately questioned in The Domestication of Derrida is the legitimacy of labelling deconstruction as a post-modern withdrawal from politics and theory. By discussing Derridaa's resistance against the very possibility of theoretical and political ascetism, Fabbri shows that there is much more politics and philosophy in deconstruction than Rorty is willing to admit.

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About the Author

Lorenzo Fabbri teaches at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826497780
• ISBN 13: 9780826497789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160