The Civic Religion of Social Hope: A Response to Simon Critchley  

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Dooley, Mark

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 27 no. 5 (Sep. 2001), page 35–58.
Topik: community ; Critchley ; democracy ; Derrida ; ethics ; justice ; law ; Levinas ; politics ; religion ; Rorty ; sentiment ; singularity ; social hope
Fulltext: 35PSC275.pdf (97.16KB)

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This article attempts to respond to Simon Critchley’s claim in a recent debate with Richard Rorty, that the latter, by not fully recognizing its indebtedness to Levinas, misunderstands the political import of the work of Jacques Derrida. I maintain, pace Critchley, that trying to push the Derrida–Levinas connection too far will not only further compound Rorty’s view of Derrida as a thinker devoid of political efficacy, but that it will moreover serve to obscure the significant differences which exist between Levinas and Derrida – differences which cannot be overlooked in any serious discussion of the two thinkers in question. In the second half, I try to convince Critchley that what separates Derrida from Levinas is precisely what hooks him up with Rorty at a political level. Both, I argue, are committed to a civic religion of social hope. In so doing, I try to convince Rorty that his caricature of Derrida as a private writer without political consequence, ought now to be seriously reconsidered.

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