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Puts Deconstruction into conversation with Speculative Realism
Looking mainly at Derrida's early work - the three texts published in 1967,
Of Grammatology,
Speech and Phenomenon and
Writing and Difference, Deborah Goldgaber shows that grammatology implies an original form of philosophical materialism and identifies the salience of deconstructive materialism to contemporary philosophical debates.
She demonstrates that Derrida's claims about writing's absolute generality - that writing pertains to more than just language - extend to living and material processes. However, though grammatology generalises writing, it radically displaces scriptural models with a novel schema, that of the mnemonic trace.
Goldgaber highlights the productive resources that Derridean writing has to offer contemporary materialist projects, including those of Karen Barad, Catherine Malabou and Quentin Meillassoux.
These fresh insights will inspire new dialogues among everyone interested in Derrida as well as in Speculative Realism and New Materialism.
Deborah Goldgaber is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University.
List of contents
Preface: The (un)Timeliness of Grammatology; Introduction: To Speculate - with Derrida; 1, Materialism and Realism in Contemporary Continental Philosophy; 2. From Ancestral Events to Posthumous Texts: Two Critiques of Correlationism; 3. Texts without Meanings: Deconstructing the Transcendental Signified; 4. Re-writing the Course of General Linguistics: From Sign to Spacing; 5. On The Generality of Writing and the Plasticity of the Trace.
About the author
Deborah Goldgaber is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University.
Summary
Looking mainly at Derrida's early work and the philosophy of speculative realists Karen Barad, Catherine Malabou and Quentin Meillassoux, Deborah Goldgaber opens the conversation between deconstruction and speculative realism.
