Derrida's Tense Bow

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ID3970157
AuthorsCamil Ungureanu (0000-0001-8419-8111, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume18
Issue6
Pages727-739
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe European Legacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10848770.2013.825093
OpenAlexW1967070906
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This essay explores both the appeal and the difficulties of Derrida’s “democratic Romanticism.” Derrida’s broader philosophical project seeks to make explicit the paradoxes or aporias that are embedded in practical experience. In unveiling these aporias, Derrida pleads, particularly in his later writings, for a transformation of democracy and religion so as to make them hospitable to difference. However, I will argue that Derrida’s reduction of the great variety of moral-political and religious situations to one aporetic logic runs into conceptual problems and risks undoing the moral tissue that makes hospitality possible in the first place

Appeal · Democracy · Epistemology · Hospitality · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Romanticism · Sociology · Undoing · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology

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