The Event of the Thing : : Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism / / Michael Marder.

• VerfasserIn: Marder, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)

Jacques Derrida's writings often embed the key themes of deconstruction in a notion of the thing. The Event of the Thing is the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding of thinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literary theory, aesthetics, and Marxism. Arguing that the thing, as a figure of otherness, destabilizes the metaphysical edifice it underlies, Michael Marder reveals the contributions it makes to critiques of humanism and idealism. Subsequently, the new realism that emerges from deconstruction holds the possibility of an event that problematizes all attempts to objectify the thing. An illuminating analysis of Derrida and phenomenology, The Event of the Thing is an innovative and compelling study of a crucial aspect of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hoc nihil ad rem -- Abbreviations of Titles of Works by Derrida -- 1. The Event of the Thing -- 2. 'This Thing Regards Us': The Promise of 'Reified' Intentionality -- 3. Deconstruction of Fetishism: The Love and the Work of the Thing -- 4. On the Thing That Deconstructs Aesthetics -- Conclusion: Post-Deconstructive Realism: Of What Remains -- Notes -- Index of Names