Irwin, Jones

Derrida and the writing of the body

by Irwin, Jones

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Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, `the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years' This book reinterprets Jacques Derrida's work from this period, most especially in L'Ecriture et la Difference (Writing and Difference), and argues that a tra…

Derrida and the writing of the body

by Irwin, Jones

0 Type: Book

Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, `the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years' This book reinterprets Jacques Derrida's work from this period, most especially in L'Ecriture et la Difference (Writing and Difference), and argues that a tra…

This thesis begins from an analysis of Derrida's specific readings of Plato and Platonism, identifying there a modernist bias, which interprets these metaphysical systems as if they were coextensive with Cartesian rationalism. Against Derrida, I argue for a repositioning of Plat…