Philosophy, Language and the Political

Poststructuralism in Perspective
Herausgeber: Manjali, Franson; Crepon, Marc

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents critical essays examining the intersection of philosophy, language, and politics in poststructuralist thought. The collection explores Jacques Derrida's philosophical legacy alongside contributions from leading scholars analyzing deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and political theory. Essays examine key thinkers including Foucault, Agamben, Blanchot, and Habermas, addressing themes of ethics, memory, and political critique. The subject matter of this book also includes: * Examination of poststructuralist philosophy and its political implications in contemporary thought * Critical analysis of Jacques Derrida's philosophical legacy and its influence on political theory * Scholarly exploration of the relationship between language, deconstruction, and political critique * In-depth study of key poststructuralist thinkers including Derrida, Foucault, Agamben, and Blanchot * Interdisciplinary approach connecting philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political theory The book investigates concepts of hauntology, spectrality, and the politics of language while offering contemporary perspectives on poststructuralist philosophy and its relevance to current political discourse. This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. T&F does not sell or distrubute the print versions in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, and Maldives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781041206590
• ISBN-10: 1041206593
• Artikelnr.: 75722889

Autorenporträt

Franson Manjali serves as Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His latest publications include Labyrinths of Language - Philosophical and Cultural Investigations. He has translated several scholarly texts from the French into English, notably Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Chronicles. Marc Crépon is Director of Research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is also currently serving as Chair, Department of Philosophy at École normale supérieure (Paris).

Inhaltsangabe

The Conference and the Book
Preface: Against the Call for Blood, the Call for Critique
Thematic Introduction: Philosophical Critique and the Politico-Linguistic
Aspects
1. The Invention of the Idiom: The Event of the Untranslatable
2. JOUIS ANNIVERSAIRE! ("scenes of inner life" for the tenth anniversary
of the death of Jacques Derrida)
3. Can a Toolbox Go to War? The Political Legacy of Poststructuralism
4. Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida as "Good Europeans"
5. Cryptonymy: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Politics
6. (De)constitutive Theories of Language and the Politics of Change
7. Resisting the Work of Mourning: Survival and Resurrection of Jacques
Derrida
8. Fear of Spinoza: Derrida as Reader of the Theological-Political
Treatise
9. Not This, Not That...: Maurice Blanchot and Poststructuralism
10. 'Being-outside and Yet Belonging': Political Philosophy of Giorgio
Agamben
11. Aporias of Ethics: Looking at the 'Wholly Other'
12. Of Shame and Censure: Is An 'other' Politics Possible?
13. Body-Reparation-Invention: Cixous and Derrida on "Feminine Writing"
14. Ecce Animot: Notes on the Animal Stigmatext
15. Learning to Live with Specters: Hauntology, Memory and Language in
Specters of Marx
16. De-cision: Resisting the 'Tragic' and Surviving the Subject
17. Wounding the Self-Writing the Other
18. Remembering "The Purloined Letter": Letters from the Event Horizon
19. Foucault: Optics and the Folding of Light
20. This is (not) a Pipe: from Magritte to Bansky
List of Contributors