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Article: Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
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- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction, by Joshua Kates. Northwestern, November 2005. $74-95 cloth, $29.95 paper
In this new contribution to Derrida studies, Joshua Kates sets out to make up for the lack of a truly global interpretation of Derrida's thought. He seeks to develop a comprehensive view of Derrida, who has been lost in the rift between one camp that labels him a radical skeptic subscribing to linguistic determinism and another that sees deconstruction in greater proximity to traditional philosophy. All in all, Kates has less sympathy for the first view. The problem with the commentators in general, he maintains, is their reification of Derrida's ...