Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History

Sean Gaston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2018
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78661-081-2 (ISBN)

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In the first book-length study of Derrida and the question of history, and in response to the 2016 publication of Derrida's 1964-1965 seminar on Heidegger and history, Sean Gaston explores Derrida's own political responses to the historical events of his time. He argues that contemporary philosophy can provide a basis for thinking about history.

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.

Sean Gaston is Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is Emeritus Reader in English at Brunel University London. His previous publications include Derrida and Disinterest (2005), The Impossible Mourning of Derrida (2006), Starting with Derrida (2007) and Derrida, Literature and War (2009).

Acknowledgments
Preface: The Problem of History

Part One: A Philosophy of History

1. History and Historicism
2. History and Historicity
3. History and Deconstruction

Part Two: A Deconstructive Historiography

4. History, Context, Mi-lieu
5. A History of Contexts
6. History, Memory, and Memoir
7. The Problem of Historical Memory
8. History, Event, and Narrative
9. A Witness of a Witness

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	13.03.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-78661-081-7 / 1786610817
ISBN-13	978-1-78661-081-2 / 9781786610812
Zustand	Neuware