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12DeconstructionIn Zeynep Direk & Leonard Lawlor (eds.), A Companion to Derrida, Wiley. 2014.Deconstructive critique targets the illusion of presence, that is, the idea that being is simply present and available before our eyes. For Derrida, the idea of presence implies self‐givenness, simplicity, purity, identity, and stasis. Therefore, deconstruction aims to demonstrate that presence is never given as such, never simple, never pure, never self‐identical, and never static; it is always given as something other, complex, impure, differentiated, and generated. The aim of deconstruction i…Read more
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11Difference and Dependency, Violence and SublimationPhilosophy Today 62 (2): 607-617. 2018.This essay assesses Kelly Oliver’s long publication career by focusing on two novel ideas we find in her work. Both are ideas belonging to the new kind of ethics Oliver envisions. On the one hand, there is the idea of dependency. Through dependency, she aims to ground an obligation to care for the ones who provide the care to the dependents. The second idea is sublimation. Through her studies of psychoanalysis, Oliver shows that sublimation allows the subject to distance herself from the violenc…Read more
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11Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2010.Published in 1967, when Derrida is 37 years old, Voice and Phenomenon appears at the same moment as Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference. All three books announce the new philosophical project called “deconstruction.” Although Derrida will later regret the fate of the term “deconstruction,” he will use it throughout his career to define his own thinking. While Writing and Difference collects essays written over a 10 year period on diverse figures and topics, and Of Grammatology aims its de…Read more
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10Jacques Derrida (edited book)Routledge. 2002.These three volumes assemble the most important essays written on Jacques Derrida's philosophy since he became established in 1967. These volumes make well-known essays easily available and also present many essays never translated in English.
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10Verendlichung (finitization): The overcoming of metaphysics with lifePhilosophy Today 48 (4): 399-412. 2004.
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10Philosophical Debates About Derrida and the Death Penalty: State of the QuestionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 59 (4): 477-494. 2021.In this essay, I examine Derrida’s deconstruction (or critique) of the death penalty in his first set of lectures (The Death Penalty, Volume 1). The essay has two parts. First, I reconstruct this deconstruction. I show that the deconstruction depends on the difference between the calculable instant and the incalculable instant. Then, in the second part I show how this difference is based on the deconstruction of temporalization Derrida produced in his 1967 Voice and Phenomenon. The deconstructio…Read more
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10Dialectic and Iterability: The Confrontation between Paul Ricoeur and Jacques DerridaPhilosophy Today 32 (3): 181-194. 1988.
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9Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (edited book)SUNY Press. 2019.Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America. Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Contributors place Bergson’s work in conversation with theorists fr…Read more
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9Logic and Existence (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1997._This first English translation illuminates Hegelianism's most obscure dialectical synthesis: the relation between the phenomenology and the logic. This book is essential for understanding the development of French thought in this century._
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9Is it Happening? or, The Implications of ImmanenceResearch in Phenomenology 44 (3): 347-361. 2014.The most basic idea behind this essay is the reversal of Platonism in which the difference between the real world and this world becomes blurred. The reversal results in time being conceived as without beginning and without end. In other words, the blurred world is equivalent to what Husserl calls temporalization. According to Husserl, the structure of temporalization implies the limit between temporal phases cannot be determined. Therefore, the limit cannot be closed, and the temporal phases ne…Read more
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9Phenomenology and metaphysics: Deconstruction in La voix et le phénomèneJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 27 (2): 116-136. 1996.
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8From Violence to Speaking Out: Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and DeleuzeEdinburgh University Press. 2016.Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. The worst violence is the reaction of total apocalypse without remainder; it is the reaction of complete negation and death; it is nihilism. Lawlor argues that it is not just transcendental violence that must be minimised: all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He offers new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence, which he creativ…Read more
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8Institution and Passivity: Course Notes From the College de France (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2010.Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and completing arguments started in The Visible and the Invisible and Signs. Leonard Lawlor and Heath Massey’s translation makes available to an English-speaking readership a critical transitional text in the history of phenomenology
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8Power and Intensity: Difference and Repetition, Chapters Four and FiveDeleuze and Guattari Studies 13 (3): 445-453. 2019.
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8The event of deconstruction: A response to a responseJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 27 (3): 317-319. 1996.
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8What Happened? What Is Going to Happen? An Essay on the Experience of the EventIn Amy Swiffen & Joshua Nichols (eds.), The ends of history: questioning the stakes of historical reason, Routledge. pp. 179. 2013.
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8“Verstellung“: Completions of ImmanenceJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 36 (2): 220-229. 2005.