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Finitude and Violence: Žižek versus Derrida on Politics.

In a recent article, Martin McQuillan has inaugurated a vigorous Derridean critique of a "violent tone" that has recently arisen in continental philosophy, exemplified by Slavoj Žižek's attempt to retrieve Robespierre's notion of "Terror. This article sets out to complicate such critique, opening a...

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Published in:KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 41 - 59
Main Author: McSweeney, John
Format: Article
Published: KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy Dec2011
Subjects:
Finite, The
Violence
Political science
McQuillan, Martin
Philosophy
Terror
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