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M. Marder, The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism 

M. Marder, The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

MARDER, Michael, The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2009, 208 p.

ISBN  9780802098924

RÉSUMÉ

Jacques Derrida's writings often embed the key themes of deconstruction in a notion of the thing. The Event of the Thingis the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding ofthinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literarytheory, aesthetics, and Marxism.

Arguingthat the thing, as a figure of otherness, destabilizes the metaphysicaledifice it underlies, Michael Marder reveals the contributions it makesto critiques of humanism and idealism. Subsequently, the new realismthat emerges from deconstruction holds the possibility of an event thatproblematizes all attempts to objectify the thing. An illuminatinganalysis of Derrida and phenomenology, The Event of the Thing is an innovative and compelling study of a crucial aspect of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.

BIOGRAPHIE

Michael Marder is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.