Reconsidering Difference
Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze
Todd May
“May is to be congratulated for writing a book that is easily accessible, comprehensive, and original.”
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Reconsidering Difference has a twofold task, the primary one critical and the secondary one reconstructive. The critical task is to show that these various privilegings are philosophical failures. They wind up, for reasons unique to each position, endorsing positions that are either incoherent or implausible. Todd May considers the incoherencies of each position and offers an alternative approach. His reconstructive task, which he calls "contingent holism," takes the phenomena under investigation—community, language, ethics, and ontology—and sketches a way of reconceiving them that preserves the motivations of the rejected positions without falling into the problems that beset them.
“May is to be congratulated for writing a book that is easily accessible, comprehensive, and original.”
Todd May is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University. He is the author of The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism (1995), The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (1994), and Between Genealogy and Epistemology (1993), all published by Penn State Press.
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