Sense and Affect exposes the limits of important recent strands in continental philosophy. It questions the necessity of a certain language of violence, otherness, disruption and pathos saturating Jacques Derrida's texts and the texts of those having a proximity to Derrida's deconstructionist project. This book establishes a connection between such affective terminology and a common, if heterogeneously expressed, theoretical inadequacy binding Derrida and writers such as Lyotard, Foucault, Caputo and Nancy. Their failure to penetrate a presumed irreducibility of suffering in the world is shown to be linked to their dependence on the assumption of an irreducible tension at the origin of meaning. This book develops a fresh method of thought thoroughly unraveling the presuppositions of deconstructive orientations and uncovering a finer silt of the world than is seen via such discourses.
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Joshua Soffer is an independent Writer in Philosophy and Psychology living in Chicago.
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Sense and Affect introduces a comprehensive new vision for philosophy, and by co-implication, a new way of thinking about modalites from the ethical to the political, the empirical to the aesthetic. The book takes as its starting point an acknowledgement of the important insight contributed by Jacques Derrida, and writers having a proximity to Derrida's deconstructionist project, that to mean is to transform, that to be is to repeat and to repeat is alter. However, it questions the deconstructive assumption that this presencing-effacing repetition is necessarily and irreducibly a disturbing, traumatic tension. The book undertakes a radicalizing rethinking of the concept of affectivity, in order to reveal a simultaneously more mobile and less polarizing basis of meaning than that proposed by Derrida. A key focus of the work is a critical examination of philosophical justifications of notions of blame, anger and forgiveness. This book should be especially of interest to those following contemporary movements in postmodern philosophy, psychology and literature.
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