{"product_id":"the-lucid-vigil-deconstruction-desire-and-the-politics-of-critique-paperback","title":"The Lucid Vigil: Deconstruction, Desire and the Politics of Critique - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStella Gaon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Society for Continental Philosophy 2020 Annual Symposium Book Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStella Gaon provides the first fully philosophical account of the critical nature of deconstruction, and she does so by turning in an original way to psychoanalysis. Drawing on close readings of Freud and Laplanche, Gaon argues that Derridean deconstruction is driven by a normative investment in reason's psychological force. Indeed, deconstruction is more faithful to the principle of reason than the various forms of critical theory prevalent today. For if one pursues the classical demand for rational grounds vigilantly, one finds that claims to ethical or political legitimacy cannot be rationally justified, because they are undone by logical undecidability. Gaon's argument is borne out in the cases of Kantian deontology, Deweyan pragmatism, progressive pedagogy, Habermasian moral theory, Levinasian ethics and others. What emerges is the groundbreaking demonstration that deconstruction is impelled by a quasi-ethical critical drive, and that to read deconstructively is to radicalize the emancipatory practice of reason as self-critique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important volume will be of great value to critical theorists as well as to Derrida scholars and researchers in social and political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStella Gaon\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Saint Mary's University. She is the editor of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy in Crisis: Violence, Alterity, Community\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51788958302496,"sku":"9780367661786","price":97.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/001492ca3e33aa2a4ab4dec2a84e8a05.webp?v=1780664018","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-lucid-vigil-deconstruction-desire-and-the-politics-of-critique-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}