The Self-Deconstruction of Convention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4386796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Jean‐pierre Dupuy, Mark Anspach, Mark R Anspach |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 86 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3685069 |
| OpenAlex | W2333103771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
IN ATTEMPTING TO STRADDLE THE CHASM between the humanities, seemingly dominated by Parisian thought, and American scientific philosophy and social science, I find my own situation as an academic commuting between Paris and Stanford has given me certain insights. From this rather unique point of view, here is what I observe (and this is hardly a caricature): on one side, literature students, initiated into the mysteries of French structuralism and its deconstruction by the numerous disciples of Jacques Derrida, celebrate the death of the human subject, and repeat ad infinitum that man is not his own master, that the awareness he may have of his own affairs is bounded by a sort of unconsciousness. On the other side, their colleagues in the economic, political or cognitive sciences learn to reduce social institutions to voluntary agreements between fully conscious, free individuals. It is perhaps fortunate that these students practically never meet-no more, in fact, than do their professors. However, I believe that it is possible to avoid juxtaposing the worst in French and American thought, and to try to combine harmoniously what is best in each
Convention · Deconstruction (building) · Political science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Engineering · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2007 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |