Deconstruction and Pragmatism

by Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, Jacques Derrida, et al.

Book Overview

Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American philosophy, and Derridian deconstruction, which extends and troubles the phonomenological and Heideggerian influence on the Continental tradition, have hitherto...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415121701
• ISBN13: 9780415121705
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"