PHENOMENOLOGY, DECONSTRUCTION, AND CRITIQUE: A DERRIDEAN PERSPECTIVE
PHENOMENOLOGY, DECONSTRUCTION, AND CRITIQUE: A DERRIDEAN PERSPECTIVE
Author(s): Stella GaonSubject(s): Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, German Idealism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophy of Science, Politics and society, Social Theory, Phenomenology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Critical theory; Derrida; Gödel; Kant; politics; post-phenomenology; undecidability;
Summary/Abstract: Critical phenomenology is gaining currency as a progressive philosophy of emancipation, but there is no consensus on what its “criticality” entails. From a Derridean perspective, critique can be said to involve radical self-interrogation; a philosophy that questions its own conditions of possibility or grounds is one that opens itself to its auto-deconstruction. Deconstruction produces undecidability, however, which means that the philosophy in question can no longer account for its political claims or its normative force. This is the predicament in which critical phenomenology, like any other critical theory, will find itself when it takes its critical injunction to heart.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philosophia
- Issue Year: 66/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 21-46
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English