The philosophy of the Limit

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Advance praise for the philosophy of the limit
"Drucilla Cornell offers us a striking reading of deconstruction—here redescribed as a 'philosophy of the limit'—as a powerful Utopian ethics, an ethics of the 'beyond/ of openness to unimogined possibilities and hence as a call for a radical transformation of the
present____Cornell has laid to rest, definitively I would say, the popular nonsense, repeated,
unfortunately, by well-known philosophers, that deconstruction is some sort of skepticism or even a pernicious nihilism. In all, a bold, brilliant, and provocative achievement."
-john d. caputo, villanova university
"The book constitutes an important intervention in contemporary intellectual debates by showing the ethical and juridical relevance of trends which are often dismissed as amoral
or destructive____Forging an innovative vista, Cornell integrates insights of Derrido,
Adorno, Lacan, and Levinas (as well as recent jurisprudence), underscoring their... Tovább

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philosophy/law
Advance praise for the philosophy of the limit
"Drucilla Cornell offers us a striking reading of deconstruction—here redescribed as a 'philosophy of the limit'—as a powerful Utopian ethics, an ethics of the 'beyond/ of openness to unimogined possibilities and hence as a call for a radical transformation of the
present____Cornell has laid to rest, definitively I would say, the popular nonsense, repeated,
unfortunately, by well-known philosophers, that deconstruction is some sort of skepticism or even a pernicious nihilism. In all, a bold, brilliant, and provocative achievement."
-john d. caputo, villanova university
"The book constitutes an important intervention in contemporary intellectual debates by showing the ethical and juridical relevance of trends which are often dismissed as amoral
or destructive____Forging an innovative vista, Cornell integrates insights of Derrido,
Adorno, Lacan, and Levinas (as well as recent jurisprudence), underscoring their significance for a transformative moral and legal practice. Splendidly argued and lucidly written, the book helps to refocus and reorient ongoing discussions about modernity and postmodemity." —fred dallmayr, university of notre dame
"The Philosophy of the Limit is a brilliant exercise in thinking through the major themes of deconstruction. In her encounter with the representative critical thinkers of today, Drucilla Cornell challenges us to follow her complex arguments and powerful rhetoric up to the limits of thinking finitude." —agnes heller, new school for social research
"This book is a major intellectual event. Nothing is more necessary and timely today than thinking through the possibility of a nonviolent relationship to the Other. The Philosophy of the Limit does just that. Learned, eloquent, passionate, rigorous, this book is not just a brilliantly original appropriation of Levinas, Lacan, and Derrida for legal studies, feminism, and frontier work in ethics. It also turns back from the perspective of legal theory to make a signal intervention in the domains of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural studies."
—j. HILLIS miller, university of california, irvine
Drucilla Cornell is Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and this year is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is author of Beyond Accommodation and coeditor of Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice and Hegel and Legal Theory, also published by Routledge. Vissza