Deconstruction and Pragmatism / Edition 1

by Simon Critchley, Chantal Mouffe, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty

Overview

Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American philosophy, and Derridian deconstruction, which extends and troubles the phonomenological and Heideggerian influence on the Continental tradition, have hitherto generally been viewed as mutually exclusive philosophical language games.
The purpose of this volume is to bring deconstruction and pragmatism into critical confrontation with one another through staging a debate between Derrida and Rorty, itself based on discussions that took place at the College International de Philosophie in Paris in 1993. The ground for this debate is layed out in introductory papers by Simon Critchley and Ernesto Laclau, and the remainder of the volume records Derrida's and Rorty's responses to each other's work. Chantal Mouffe gives an overview of the stakes of this debate in a helpful preface.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415121699
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/1996
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at acknowledgement Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Deconstruction, Pragmatism and the Politics of Democracy, Chantal Mouffe; Chapter 2 Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism, Richard Rorty; Chapter 3 Deconstruction and Pragmatism – Is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal?, Simon Critchley; Chapter 4 Response to Simon Critchley, Richard Rorty; Chapter 5 Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony, Ernesto Laclau; Chapter 6 Response to Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty; Chapter 7, Jacques Derrida;