The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

by David Wood

Overview

Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791464649
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His many books include Thinking After Heidegger.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: Towards a Negative Capability

PART I: Philosophy and Violence

1. Identity and Violence
2. The Philosophy of Violence: The Violence of Philosophy
3. Where Levinas Went Wrong

PART II: Singular Encounters

4. The First Kiss: Tales of Innocence and Experience
5. Thinking God in the Wake of Kierkegaard
6. Dionysus in America

PART III: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

7. Notes toward a Deconstructive Phenomenology
8. Responsibility Reinscribed (and How)
9. What Is Ecophenomenology?
10. Globalization and Freedom

POSTSCRIPT: Philosophy: The Antioxidant of Higher Education

NOTES

INDEX