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...
| Publicado en: | KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 41 - 59 |
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