The Arguments of Radical Atheism – Some Critical Reflections.
The paper provides a critical review of Martin Hägglund's influential Radical Atheism. The paper focuses on what Hägglund calls 'radical atheism': the view that according to Derrida 'the best is the worst'. First, the paper critically examines Hägglund's reconstruction of Derrida's argument for the...
| Publicado en: | Derrida Today Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 130 - 152 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Nov2019
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