Author: Robert Denoon Cumming
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: phenomenology, deconstruction, amp, imagination, volume, method
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 1992-01-15
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0226123693
ISBN-13: 9780226123691

"Husserl had captured me, I saw everything in terms of the perspectives of his philosophy," wrote Sartre of his conversion to Husserl’s phenomenology. In the present volume Cumming analyzes Sartre’s transformation of Husserl’s phenomenological method into a rudimentary dialectic. Cumming thus provides an introduction to phenomenology itself, and more generally to the ways in which debts to previous philosophies can be refurbished in later philosophies. He shows how phenomenology, which for Husserl was a theory of knowledge in which "we can always presume sincerity," becomes f

Author: Robert Denoon Cumming
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: phenomenology, deconstruction, communication, vol, three, volume, breakdown
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226123715
ISBN-13: 9780226123714

Philosophers are committed to objective understanding, but the history of philosophy demonstrates how frequently one philosopher misunderstands another. The most notorious such breakdown in communication in twentieth-century philosophy was between Husserl and Heidegger. In the third volume of his history of the phenomenological movement, Robert Denoon Cumming argues that their differences involve differences in method; whereas Husserl follows a "method of clarification," with which he eliminates ambiguities by relying on an intentional analysis that isolates its objects, Heidegger rejects the

Author: Robert Denoon Cumming
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: phenomenology, deconstruction, over, dream, volume, one
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 1992-01-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0226123677
ISBN-13: 9780226123677

"Philosophy as . . . a rigorous science . . . the dream is over," Edward Husserl once declared. Heidegger (Husserl’s successor), Derrida, and Rorty have propounded versions of "the end of philosophy." Cumming argues that what would count as philosophy’s coming to an end can only be determined with some attention to disruptions which have previously punctuated the history of philosophy. He arrives at categories for interpreting what is at issue in such disruptions by analyzing Heidegger’s and Husserl’s break with each other, Heidegger’s break with Sartre, and Merle

Author: Robert Denoon Cumming
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: phenomenology, deconstruction, vol, solitude, volume, four
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0226123731
ISBN-13: 9780226123738

In this final volume of Robert Denoon Cumming’s four-volume history of the phenomenological movement, Cumming examines the bearing of Heidegger’s philosophy on his original commitment to Nazism and on his later inability to face up to the implication of that allegiance. Cumming continues his focus, as in previous volumes, on Heidegger’s connection with other philosophers. Here, Cumming looks first at Heidegger’s relation to Karl Jaspers, an old friend on whom Heidegger turned his back when Hitler consolidated power, and who discredited Heidegger in the denazification th

Author: Jonathan D. Culler
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: deconstruction
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1983-02-24
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 041504555X
ISBN-13: 9780415045551

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida’s thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relationship between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler’s book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a

Author: Jim Powell
Publisher: For Beginners
Keywords: beginners, deconstruction
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1934389269
ISBN-13: 9781934389263

Deconstruction is so labyrinthine that it has become the monster that murdered philosophy. When Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, uses buzzwords such as “phallogocentrism” and “transcendental signified,” humanities students and aspiring philosophers may get weak in the knees. Following the success of his For Beginners title Derrida, Jim Powell’s Deconstruction is an irreverent romp through deconstructive domains. Though Powell offers lucid explanations of the most important deconstructive ideas and texts, he also dives into lesser-known works. One of these, The Right to

Author: John Martin Ellis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: deconstruction
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1990-02-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0691014841
ISBN-13: 9780691014845

"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . [T]he naïvetê of the crowd is deconstruction’s very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book