Author : Sean Gaston
Release : 2018-11-23
Genre : Philosophy
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Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History write by Sean Gaston. This book was released on 2018-11-23. Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important new book argues that Jacques Derrida’s work can be treated as the basis for a distinctive historiography. The possibility of seeing Derrida not as a philosopher of language but as a philosopher of history has become more apparent with the recent publication of Derrida’s 1964-1965 seminar Heidegger: The Question of Being and History. We now know that the problem of history was at the heart of Derrida’s writing in the mid-1960s, prior to the publication of his best-known work, Of Grammatology (1967). Arguing that Derrida's scholarship in the 1960s and early 1970s on historicism, historicity and the problem of history can be treated as the basis for a philosophy of history, Sean Gaston focuses on Derrida's work from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s and his relentless questioning of context, memory and narrative as the delineation of a deconstructive historiography. The book raises a challenge for historians to think about both deconstruction and historiography, arguing that contemporary philosophy can provide a basis for thinking about history in the name of a deconstructive historiography that is not incompatible with rigorous historical scholarship.