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Jacques Derrida and the Challenge of History
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Artikel-Nr:
9781786610829
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Sean Gaston
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In the first book-length study of Derrida and the question of history, and in response to the 2016 publication of Derrida's 1964-1965 seminar on Heidegger and history, Sean Gaston explores Derrida's own political responses to the historical events of his time. He argues that contemporary philosophy can provide a basis for thinking about history.
This important new book argues that Jacques Derrida’s work can be treated as the basis for a distinctive historiography. The possibility of seeing Derrida not as a philosopher of language but as a philosopher of history has become more apparent with the recent publication of Derrida’s 1964-1965 seminar Heidegger: The Question of Being and History. We now know that the problem of history was at the heart of Derrida’s writing in the mid-1960s, prior to the publication of his best-known work, Of Grammatology (1967).
Arguing that Derrida's scholarship in the 1960s and early 1970s on historicism, historicity and the problem of history can be treated as the basis for a philosophy of history, Sean Gaston focuses on Derrida's work from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s and his relentless questioning of context, memory and narrative as the delineation of a deconstructive historiography. The book raises a challenge for historians to think about both deconstruction and historiography, arguing that contemporary philosophy can provide a basis for thinking about history in the name of a deconstructive historiography that is not incompatible with rigorous historical scholarship.
Arguing that Derrida's scholarship in the 1960s and early 1970s on historicism, historicity and the problem of history can be treated as the basis for a philosophy of history, Sean Gaston focuses on Derrida's work from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s and his relentless questioning of context, memory and narrative as the delineation of a deconstructive historiography. The book raises a challenge for historians to think about both deconstruction and historiography, arguing that contemporary philosophy can provide a basis for thinking about history in the name of a deconstructive historiography that is not incompatible with rigorous historical scholarship.
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Problem of History
Part One: A Philosophy of History
1. History and Historicism
2. History and Historicity
3. History and Deconstruction
Part Two: A Deconstructive Historiography
4. History, Context, Mi-lieu
5. A History of Contexts
6. History, Memory, and Memoir
7. The Problem of Historical Memory
8. History, Event, and Narrative
9. A Witness of a Witness
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Preface: The Problem of History
Part One: A Philosophy of History
1. History and Historicism
2. History and Historicity
3. History and Deconstruction
Part Two: A Deconstructive Historiography
4. History, Context, Mi-lieu
5. A History of Contexts
6. History, Memory, and Memoir
7. The Problem of Historical Memory
8. History, Event, and Narrative
9. A Witness of a Witness
Bibliography
Index
About the Author