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Polity Press Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press John Rawls' Theory of Justice and Its Critics (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
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Polity Press Levinas: An Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Franz Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity and the Ordinary (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
The problem with books about Jacques Derrida and deconstruction is that they tend to be as abstruse and difficult to approach as some of Derrida's own work. Derrida's philosophy is heavily influenced by semiotics (the science of signs) and linguistics. It is hugely influential but seen by many to be wilfully obscure. His is a method of very close reading (deconstruction--the word comes from the French <I>de</I> (of) coupled with construction) and can be seen as a maverick way of reading the text against its ostensible intentions, sometimes against the conscious wishes of the author, demonstrating its instability. Derrida also rails against what he calls the metaphysics of presence--this is the idea, central to Western Philosophy, that a real, true self exists, part of the system of binary oppositions in which presence (male/white etc.) is always prioritised over absence(female/black etc.). Speech has been seen as a presence and writing has been seen as merely a reflection, even a corrupted version, of it. Derrida calls this logocentrism and shows, often counter intuitively, how (eg) writing precedes/underpins speech. The intention is not to reverse the binary opposition but to expose its assumptions.<p> Christina Howells' invigorating, closely argued book has the great recommendation of readability and clarity. Her opening review of phenomenology (a philosophy of consciousness [that began with Edmund Husserl] which attempts to put aside preconceptions about the relationship between mind and world) is extremely useful. So too is her ongoing concern about the often ignored relationship between Derrida and the intellectual project of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism. Her chapter on structuralism is a little too brief and, overall, the book seldom takes issue with Derrida's positions seeing in deconstruction a benign ethics and a truly democratic impulse. Whilst many have questioned this position (often, according to Howells, through misreading Derrida by conflating his views with the author/text he is deconstructing) she ably defends the whole Derridean enterprise. Inevitably such a primer has gaps--Derrida has produced over 20 books since 1990--but these in no way mar this enjoyable overview that will give the confidence to many readers to direct themselves to the source works themselves. --<I>Mark Thwaite</I>
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Polity Press Fodor: Language, Mind and Philosophy (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Adorno: A Critical Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
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Polity Press Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Stuart Hall (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Walter Benjamin (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
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Polity Press Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-conception (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Edward Said (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Dummett: Philosophy of Language (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Habermas: A Critical Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
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Polity Press Clifford Geertz: Culture, Custom and Ethics (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Helene Cixous: An Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-conception (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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Polity Press The French Historical Revolution: Annales School, 1929-1989 (Key Contemporary Thinkers S.)
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