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Domestication of Derrida: Rorty, Pragmatism and Deconstruction

Contributor(s): Fabbri, Lorenzo (Author)

ISBN: 9780826497789

Publisher: Continuum

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Pub Date: August 8, 2008

Dewey: 194

LCCN: 2007045514

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.60" H x 9.40" L x 6.10" W ( 0.83 lbs) 160 pages

Series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

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Description: An important new book analyzing the way in which Richard Rorty has tried to reconcile the thought of Jacques Derrida with the American pragmatist and liberal tradition.

Brief description: Lorenzo Fabbri is a Sage fellow in the department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, USA.

Review Quotes: "Fabbri makes a successful case in defending Derrida against Rorty's criticism... [his] book merits attention as one of the few attempts to mark the interface between pragmatism and deconstruction." --The European Legacy, Vol. 16, No. 3

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