{"product_id":"essential-history-jacques-derrida-and-the-development-of-deconstruction-9780810123274","title":"Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joshua Kates\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a \"foundational\" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy, or rather the most radical of skeptics? Are language-related themes--writing, semiosis--his central concern, or does he really write about something else? And does his thought form a system of its own, or does it primarily consist of commentaries on individual texts? This book seeks to address these questions by returning to what it claims is essential history: the development of Derrida's core thought through his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology. Joshua Kates recasts what has come to be known as the Derrida\/Husserl debate, by approaching Derrida's thought historically, through its development. Based on this developmental work, \u003ci\u003e Essential History \u003c\/i\u003eculminates by offering discrete interpretations of Derrida's two book-length 1967 texts, interpretations that elucidate the until now largely opaque relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A fundamental reinterpretation of Derrida's project and the works for which he is best known, Kates's study fashions a new manner of working with the French thinker that respects the radical singularity of his thought as well as the often different aims of those he reads. Such a view is in fact \"essential\" if Derrida studies are to remain a vital field of scholarly inquiry, and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46312030109847,"sku":"9780810123274","price":3208.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780810123274.webp?v=1767703957","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/essential-history-jacques-derrida-and-the-development-of-deconstruction-9780810123274","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}