Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wolin, Richard

Titel

Down by Law: Deconstruction and the Problem of Justice

Ist Teil von

• The Seduction of Unreason, 2019, p.220-255

Auflage

NED - New edition

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Following in Heidegger’s footsteps, Derrida made his reputation as critic of metaphysics. In Being and Time Heidegger spoke of the need for a systematic Destruktion of Western metaphysics, which in his view had forgotten the question of Being: the meaning of Being in general as opposed to the being of specific entities or things. Yet whereas Heidegger criticized the Western tradition to better establish the preconditions for “first philosophy” (“fundamental ontology”), this aspect of Heidegger’s project could not be farther from Derrida’s own intentions. Viewed through a Derridean optic, Heidegger’s thought betrays a residual “ foundationalism” that resonates in the