Format:
X, 208 S.
ISBN:
0271016574
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0271016582
Content:
French philosophy since World War II has been preoccupied with the issue of difference. For some thinkers, especially Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilles Deleuze, this preoccupation has led to a mode of philosophizing that privileges difference as a philosophical category. Reconsidering Difference has a twofold task, the primary one critical and the secondary one reconstructive. The critical task is to show that these various privilegings are philosophical failures. They wind up, for reasons unique to each position, endorsing positions that are either incoherent or implausible. Todd May considers the incoherencies of each position and offers an alternative approach. His reconstructive task, which he calls "contingent holism," takes the phenomena under investigationcommunity, language, ethics, and ontology - and sketches a way of reconceiving them that preserves the motivations of the rejected positions without falling into the problems that beset them.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Holismus
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Differenz
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Philosophie
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Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
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Philosophie
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Deleuze, Gilles 1925-1995
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Philosophie
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Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995
;
Philosophie
;
Nancy, Jean-Luc 1940-2021
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Unterscheidung
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Philosophie
;
Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
;
Unterscheidung
;
Philosophie
;
Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995
;
Unterscheidung
;
Philosophie
;
Delenze, Gilles
;
Unterscheidung
;
Philosophie
;
Delenze, Gilles
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