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Philosophy, Language and the Political -

Philosophy, Language and the Political

Poststructuralism in Perspective

Franson Manjali, Marc Crépon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-20659-0 (ISBN)
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This book examines Derrida's legacy, deconstruction, and political theory through anlysis of Foucault, Agamben, and Blanchot, concepts of hauntology, spectrality, and the politics of language while offering contemporary perspectives on poststructuralist philosophy and its relevance to current political discourse.
This book presents critical essays examining the intersection of philosophy, language, and politics in poststructuralist thought. The collection explores Jacques Derrida's philosophical legacy alongside contributions from leading scholars analyzing deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and political theory. Essays examine key thinkers including Foucault, Agamben, Blanchot, and Habermas, addressing themes of ethics, memory, and political critique. The subject matter of this book also includes:



Examination of poststructuralist philosophy and its political implications in contemporary thought
Critical analysis of Jacques Derrida's philosophical legacy and its influence on political theory
Scholarly exploration of the relationship between language, deconstruction, and political critique
In-depth study of key poststructuralist thinkers including Derrida, Foucault, Agamben, and Blanchot
Interdisciplinary approach connecting philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political theory

The book investigates concepts of hauntology, spectrality, and the politics of language while offering contemporary perspectives on poststructuralist philosophy and its relevance to current political discourse.

This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. T&F does not sell or distrubute the print versions in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, and Maldives.

Franson Manjali serves as Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His latest publications include Labyrinths of Language – Philosophical and Cultural Investigations. He has translated several scholarly texts from the French into English, notably Jean-Luc Nancy’s Philosophical Chronicles. Marc Crépon is Director of Research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is also currently serving as Chair, Department of Philosophy at École normale supérieure (Paris).

The Conference and the Book

Preface: Against the Call for Blood, the Call for Critique

Thematic Introduction: Philosophical Critique and the Politico-Linguistic Aspects



The Invention of the Idiom: The Event of the Untranslatable


JOUIS ANNIVERSAIRE! ("scenes of inner life" for the tenth anniversary of the death of Jacques Derrida)


Can a Toolbox Go to War? The Political Legacy of Poststructuralism


Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida as "Good Europeans"


Cryptonymy: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Politics


(De)constitutive Theories of Language and the Politics of Change


Resisting the Work of Mourning: Survival and Resurrection of Jacques Derrida


Fear of Spinoza: Derrida as Reader of the Theological-Political Treatise


Not This, Not That...: Maurice Blanchot and Poststructuralism


'Being-outside and Yet Belonging': Political Philosophy of Giorgio Agamben


Aporias of Ethics: Looking at the 'Wholly Other'


Of Shame and Censure: Is An 'other' Politics Possible?


Body-Reparation-Invention: Cixous and Derrida on "Feminine Writing"


Ecce Animot: Notes on the Animal Stigmatext


Learning to Live with Specters: Hauntology, Memory and Language in Specters of Marx


De-cision: Resisting the 'Tragic' and Surviving the Subject


Wounding the Self—Writing the Other


Remembering "The Purloined Letter": Letters from the Event Horizon


Foucault: Optics and the Folding of Light


This is (not) a Pipe: from Magritte to Bansky



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Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 1-041-20659-3 / 1041206593
ISBN-13 978-1-041-20659-0 / 9781041206590
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