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Reconsidering difference : Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze

Author: Todd May
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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French philosophy since World War II has been preoccupied with the issue of difference. For some thinkers, especially Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilles Deleuze, this preoccupation has led to a mode of philosophizing that privileges difference as a philosophical category. Reconsidering Difference has a twofold task, the primary one critical and the secondary one reconstructive. The  Read more...
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May, Todd, 1955-
Reconsidering difference.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1997
(OCoLC)645855785
Named Person: Jean-Luc Nancy; Jacques Derrida; Emmanuel Lévinas; Gilles Deleuze; Jean-Luc Nancy; Jacques Derrida; Emmanuel Lévinas; Gilles Deleuze; Jacques Derrida; Gilles Deleuze; Emmanuel Lévinas; Jean-Luc Nancy; Gilles Deleuze
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Todd May
ISBN: 0271016574 9780271016573 0271016582 9780271016580
OCLC Number: 35317954
Description: x, 208 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. From Communal Difference to Communal Holism / Jean-Luc Nancy --
2. From Linguistic Difference to Linguistic Holism / Jacques Derrida --
3. From Ethical Difference to Ethical Holism / Emmanuel Levinas --
4. From Ontological Difference to Ontological Holism / Gilles Deleuze --
Conclusions: From Difference to Holism.
Responsibility: Todd May.

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French philosophy since World War II has been preoccupied with the issue of difference. For some thinkers, especially Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilles Deleuze, this preoccupation has led to a mode of philosophizing that privileges difference as a philosophical category. Reconsidering Difference has a twofold task, the primary one critical and the secondary one reconstructive. The critical task is to show that these various privilegings are philosophical failures. They wind up, for reasons unique to each position, endorsing positions that are either incoherent or implausible. Todd May considers the incoherencies of each position and offers an alternative approach. His reconstructive task, which he calls "contingent holism," takes the phenomena under investigationcommunity, language, ethics, and ontology - and sketches a way of reconceiving them that preserves the motivations of the rejected positions without falling into the problems that beset them.

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