The Purest of Bastards: Works of Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida

by David Farrell Krell

The "deconstruction" that is commonly seen to be the method of Derrida's philosophy has an inescapably negative connotation. To counter this view of Derrida's thought as basically destructive, David Farrell Krell invites readers to understand how it may instead be seen as fundamentally affirmative--just as Nietzsche's philosophy, so allegedly nihilistic, is at heart a call for tragic affirmation, in amor fati.

But, while affirmative,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271029994
• ISBN13: 9780271029993
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"