Sense and Affect
Sense and Affect by Joshua Soffer, published by UPA on December 17, 2002, is a critical examination of contemporary continental philosophy, spanning 196 pages. This book questions the prevalent use of language associated with violence, otherness, and pathos in the works of Jacques Derrida and his philosophical contemporaries. Soffer explores the theoretical inadequacies that connect Derrida with figures like Lyotard, Foucault, Caputo, and Nancy, highlighting their shared struggle to address the complexities of suffering and meaning.
Readers will find that Sense and Affect develops a novel approach to deconstruction, aiming to unravel the assumptions that underpin established philosophical discourses. By focusing on the limitations of affective terminology, the book seeks to reveal a deeper understanding of the world that transcends conventional interpretations. This edition, written in English, invites readers to engage with the intricate relationships between language, meaning, and the human experience as articulated by key philosophical figures.
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Sense and Affect exposes the limits of important recent strands in continental philosophy. It questions the necessity of a certain language of violence, otherness, disruption and pathos saturating Jacques Derrida’s texts and the texts of those having a proximity to Derrida’s deconstructionist project. This book establishes a connection between such affective terminology and a common, if heterogeneously expressed, theoretical inadequacy binding Derrida and writers such as Lyotard, Foucault, Caputo and Nancy. Their failure to penetrate a presumed irreducibility of suffering in the world is shown to be linked to their dependence on the assumption of an irreducible tension at the origin of meaning. This book develops a fresh method of thought thoroughly unraveling the presuppositions of deconstructive orientations and uncovering a finer silt of the world than is seen via such discourses.
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