Derrida and Disinterest
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Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its definition reworked by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gaston looks at the treatment of disinterest in the work of two major modern Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. He identifies both as part of a tradition, obscured since the eighteenth-century, that takes disinterest to be the opposite of self-interest, rather than the absence of all interest. Such a tradition locates disinterest at the centre of thinking about ethics. The book argues that disinterest plays a significant role in the philosophy of both thinkers and in the dialogue between their work. In so doing it sheds new light on their respective contributions to moral and political philosophy. Moreover, it traces the history of disinterest in Western philosophy from Descartes to Derrida, taking in the contributions of major philosophers in both the analytic, Anglo-American and Continental traditions: Locke; Shaftesbury; Hume; Smith; Nietzsche; Kant; Hegel; Heidegger. Derrida and Disinterest offers a new reading of Derrida, a stimulating account of the role and importance of disinterest in the history of Western philosophy and a provocative and original contribution to Continental ethics.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Disinterest for Today
Chapter 2: Derrida and the Ruins of Disinterest
Chapter 3: A Harsh Transcendence: Levinas, Disinterest and Enthusiasm
Chapter 4: Ideas of Disinterest 1600-1800
Chapter 5: The Spectres of Disinterest 1790-1845
Chapter 6: Kant, Derrida and the Interests of Reason Chapter 7: A Matter of Love
Chapter 8: Re-mettre en question: Levinas, Derrida and Heidegger's Question
Chapter 9: Derrida and the Resistance of Anticipation Chapter 10: Derrida and une acceleration affolante
Chapter 11: Derrida and Life Death, Death Life
Chapter 2: Derrida and the Ruins of Disinterest
Chapter 3: A Harsh Transcendence: Levinas, Disinterest and Enthusiasm
Chapter 4: Ideas of Disinterest 1600-1800
Chapter 5: The Spectres of Disinterest 1790-1845
Chapter 6: Kant, Derrida and the Interests of Reason Chapter 7: A Matter of Love
Chapter 8: Re-mettre en question: Levinas, Derrida and Heidegger's Question
Chapter 9: Derrida and the Resistance of Anticipation Chapter 10: Derrida and une acceleration affolante
Chapter 11: Derrida and Life Death, Death Life
Product details
| Published | Aug 29 2006 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9780826491633 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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