Politiche dell'amicizia

Deconstruction is the desire for thought. Derrida says here - there is no deconstruction without democracy and there is no democracy without deconstruction. For all of his attempts to avoid defining, labelling and reducing deconstruction, this book is actually quite readable and in several places it Leggi tutto

I know I'm supposed to find Derrida interesting and challenging and stimulating... etc.. Maybe I'm just not intelligent enough to follow his line of argument, certainly my background is not in philosophy. There is surely however an unnecessary level of obfuscation in the language Derrida uses in thi Leggi tutto

"There is little room for laughter in Heidegger."

Intriguing and provocative. as always.

I'll need to mull this one for a while. I liked large stretches of it, especially the final few chapters, but some of it lost me. There's (not surprisingly) plenty of deconstructive work without much construction. On the topic of friendship (a malleable term), that comes to feel a little sad. There

Probably the peak of post-war liberal miserabilism Ive read so far. I see this book more as an elaborate attempt to mourn and impose the ethical necessity of the impossibility of reconciling difference with a universalist humanist project.

Meh