Deconstruction After 9/11In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia and Afghanistan to Palestine and Baghdad. His 'textual activism' is as impatient with the universal gestures of philosophy as it is with the complacency and reductionism of policy-makers and activists alike. This work records a response to the war on thinking that has marked western discourse since 9/11. |
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Contents
Deconstruction After 911 | 1 |
1 Wars and Rumours of Wars | 16 |
2 The Eternal Battle for the Domination of the World or Forget Kosovo | 33 |
3 TeleTechnoTheology | 47 |
Derrida and Vietnam | 65 |
Is Deconstruction Really a Social Science? | 81 |
Naomi Klein and the New International | 91 |
7 Promises Promises This Is Also Why | 108 |
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| Title | Deconstruction After 9/11 Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Author | Martin McQuillan |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1135891125, 9781135891121 |
| Length | 200 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / General Social Science / Media Studies |
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