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Phenomenology or Deconstruction?
Christopher Watkin
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Description for Phenomenology or Deconstruction?
Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul RicA"ur and Jean-Luc Nancy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 592.
Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul RicA"ur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue with Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes provides the impetus to establishing a new understanding of 'being' and 'presence' that exposes significant blindspots inherent in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction. In reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of the possibilities for the future of phenomenology, along with a new reading of the deconstructive ... Read more
Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul RicA"ur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue with Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes provides the impetus to establishing a new understanding of 'being' and 'presence' that exposes significant blindspots inherent in traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction. In reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of the possibilities for the future of phenomenology, along with a new reading of the deconstructive ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748637591
SKU
V9780748637591
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About Christopher Watkin
Christopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French at Monash University. In 2009 he published Phenomenology or Deconstruction? The Question of Ontology in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul RicA"ur and Jean-Luc Nancy with Edinburgh University Press. His next project will consider the notion of equality in contemporary French thought.
Reviews for Phenomenology or Deconstruction?
Lucid and rigorous in equal measure, Watkin's Phenomenology and Deconstruction is both a timely intervention and a critical introduction to a vital current in contemporary European thought. It is also an essential reconfiguration of the intellectual landscape as concerns phenomenology, giving us back the bodies we need, but stranger and richer.
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