[lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida

[shag carpet bomb]

At 03:03 PM 4/10/2009, magcomm wrote:
> > Deconstruction can sit happily alongside an ironic, self-knowing
>imperialism, such as we see argued by the EU official Robert Cooper.
>
>I do not think that Derrida's understanding of deconstruction could
>take that seat.  His late work on ethics and hospitality shows how
>deconstruction and ethics are tightly aligned.  I found his ADIEU TO
>EMMANUEL LEVINAS very helpful.  Also, there are many points of
>connection between Derrida's thought and Buddhism.  The rejection of
>master narratives has always seemed to me to be the rejection of an
>unambiguous, absolute closure point.  The narrative is always
>reformulating itself and its conclusions.  So deconstruction could not
>sit alongside (happily or otherwise) a self-knowing imperialism, since
>the act of self-knowing is an on-going process that never ends and is
>always subject to ethical scrutiny.
>
>Brian

*faints*


:)

shag