Derrida, Deconstruction and Social Theory

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2397580
AutoresKanakis Leledakis (University of Crete, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas175-193
Fecha de publicación2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13684310022224750
OpenAlexW2145135376
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas18

This article focuses on an analysis and evaluation of the importance Derrida's work may have for a theory of the social. It is argued that both his earlier and his later works are important in this respect, albeit at a high level of abstraction. In his early work the social is seen as an open 'field of meaning' while in later work differentations within this field, such as the level of the 'phantasmatic', are introduced. This is a direction of theorization that has to be developed, although the way the 'openness' of this field is to be conceived needs to be re-elaborated. However, Derrida's account in recent work of the structure of ethical/political action, based on 'emancipatory promises', is not satisfactory and runs the danger of regressing to subjectivism. Instead, the existence of structural determinations - of a 'history' - within the subject has to be theorized without reducing the subject to a form of self-presence. This history, alongside the contextuality of the moment of action, delineates the framework for ethical/political action

Epistemology · Kochen–Specker theorem · Openness to experience · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subjectivism · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology