Derrida, Deconstruction and Social Theory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2397580
AutoresKanakis Leledakis (University of Crete, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas175-193
Data de publicação2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13684310022224750
OpenAlexW2145135376
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências 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