Identity politics in deconstruction: calculating with the incalculable
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Main Author: D' Cruz, Carolyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, UK Ashgate ©2008
Series:Ashgate new critical thinking in philosophy
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
What matter who's speaking? -- Between experience and epistemology -- Choosing one's heritage : between philosophy and politics -- Truth law and justice : the call of the other in the disadjusted time of the present -- Welcome stranger : democracy, autoimmunity and hospitality
Identity politics dominates the organisation of liberation movements today. In this book Carolyn D'Cruz investigates the nexus between what David Birch describes as 'the seemingly impossible of high theory and the seemingly accessible possibilities of popular discourse', as encountered in liberation movements based on identity. D'Cruz reworks the logic of such movements through the unique combination of Derridean deconstruction, Foucauldian discourse and Levinasian ethics. Moving both within and between the domains of philosophy, politics and 'postmodern culture' this book offers both a clear
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 127 pages)
ISBN:075466208X
0754692981
9780754692980

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