Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)

The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well. Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes.

• | Author: Chiara Alfano
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Jun 29, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1350039640
• | ISBN-13: 9781350039643