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Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 803-817

Metaphysics in the dark a response to richard rorty and ernesto laclau

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EID: 22444453014     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591798026006003     Document Type: Article
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    • Collected Poems (London: Faber, 1955), 240.1 owe this allusion to Tracy Strong.
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    • note
    • Rorty's response and my original paper ("Deconstruction and Pragmatism: Is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal?") can be found m Deconstruction and Pragmatism, éd. Chantai Mouffe (London: Routledge, 1996), 41-6, 19-40. In the time since my original paper was written in 1993, Derrida's work has, characteristically, evolved. In particular, it seems to me that a consideration of Spectres of Marx (London: Routledge, 1994) and Politics of Friendship (London: Verso, 1997) would lead me to modify significantly elements of my interpretation of Derrida. I attempt to do this in chaps. 7 and 12 of my forthcoming Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought (London: Verso, 1998).
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    • "Habermas und Derrida werden verheiratet: Antwort auf Axel Honneth,"
    • take up these questions in greater detail in a debate with Axel Honneth, "Habermas und Derrida werden verheiratet: Antwort auf Axel Honneth," Deutsche Zeitshriftflir Philosophie 42, no. 6 (1994): 981-92.
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    • On the relation of ethics to politics, see "The Other's Decision in Me-What Are the Politics of Friendship?" European Journal of Social Theory, October 1998.
    • On the relation of ethics to politics, see "The Other's Decision in Me-What Are the Politics of Friendship?" European Journal of Social Theory, October 1998.
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    • "On Specters de Marx," Philosophy and Social Criticism 21, no. 3 (May 1995): 1-30.
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    • "Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony," in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 47-67.
    • "Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony," in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 47-67.
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    • note
    • See "Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony," 54-60. Incidentally, as I argue elsewhere (see S. Critchley and P. Dews, eds., Deconstructive Subjectivities [Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996], 1 -12 and 13-45), I completely agree with Laclau that one cannot do away with the category of the subject, understood as the subject of a lack, a failed structural identity, because it is, as Laclau admits, "part of the structure of experience" ("Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony," 56). But if one accepts this, might one not also ask: if, for Laclau, the subject is a freedom that is condemned because it is defined in terms of failure and lack, then who is the subject condemned to be in relation toward? More simply, if the subject is part of the structure of experience, then is not the other also part ofthat structure? One thinks here of Sartre's celebrated remark "Hell is other people," but also of the transformation of the Hegelian dialectic of intersubjectivity in Lacan's thinking of the subject in relationship to the big Other. What is the relation between Laclau's theorization of the subject and the problematic of intersubjectivity, and is not the latter ultimately constitutive of the former?
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    • "Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony," 53.
    • "Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony," 53.
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    • "Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism," 82.
    • "Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism," 82.
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    • 1 am compressing a much longer argument that can be found in "From Text to Context: Deconstruction and the Thought of an Unconditional Ethical Imperative," in my The Ethics of Deconstruction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 31-42.
    • 1 am compressing a much longer argument that can be found in "From Text to Context: Deconstruction and the Thought of an Unconditional Ethical Imperative," in my The Ethics of Deconstruction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 31-42.
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    • Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Rorty's essay, "Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition" appears in his Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers Volume 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 327-50. In his conclusion, Rorty writes, "Bennington has convinced me that I cannot get away with my stance of tough-minded, hypostatization-bashing empiricism without falling a bit too much under the sway of the metaphysical logos.... I still cannot help becoming impatient with the bloodless ballet that Bennington very skillfully choreographs, but I think I now understand better why he thinks it has to be done-why he thinks we can't just let deconstruction go hang if we still want to hang on to Derrida" (p. 349).
    • See G. Bennington and J. Derrida, Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). Rorty's essay, "Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition" appears in his Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers Volume 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 327-50. In his conclusion, Rorty writes, "Bennington has convinced me that I cannot get away with my stance of tough-minded, hypostatization-bashing empiricism without falling a bit too much under the sway of the metaphysical logos.... I still cannot help becoming impatient with the bloodless ballet that Bennington very skillfully choreographs, but I think I now understand better why he thinks it has to be done-why he thinks we can't just let deconstruction go hang if we still want to hang on to Derrida" (p. 349).
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    • Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 41.
    • Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 41.
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    • Ibid., 17.
    • Ibid., 17.
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    • Ibid., 41.
    • Ibid., 41.
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    • Achieving Our Country, 107.
    • Achieving Our Country, 107.
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    • See Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 33.
    • See Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 33.
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    • Ibid., 44.
    • Ibid., 44.
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    • Ibid., 45.
    • Ibid., 45.
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    • Ibid., 24.
    • Ibid., 24.
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    • Chantal Mouffe makes the same argument using Cavell's critique of Rawls in "Deconstruction, Pragmatism and the Politics of Democracy," in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 9-11.
    • Chantal Mouffe makes the same argument using Cavell's critique of Rawls in "Deconstruction, Pragmatism and the Politics of Democracy," in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 9-11.
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    • See "The Other's Decision in Me."
    • See "The Other's Decision in Me."
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    • Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 45.
    • Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 45.
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    • Ibid., 42.
    • Ibid., 42.
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    • Ibid.
    • Ibid.
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    • For the sake of completeness, I would like to point out two further infelicities in Rorty's response: (i) I did not write "justice is an experience of the unexperiencable" (Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 41), which is a perhaps fructive contradiction in terms, but "an 'experience' of the undecidable," which is something quite different. I take it that Rorty's subsequent remarks about my "pointless hype" would have to be moderated by the fact that they do not refer to my paper, (ii) As far as I am aware, I do not speak of a "supreme ethical principle"(ibid., 42).
    • For the sake of completeness, I would like to point out two further infelicities in Rorty's response: (i) I did not write "justice is an experience of the unexperiencable" (Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 41), which is a perhaps fructive contradiction in terms, but "an 'experience' of the undecidable," which is something quite different. I take it that Rorty's subsequent remarks about my "pointless hype" would have to be moderated by the fact that they do not refer to my paper, (ii) As far as I am aware, I do not speak of a "supreme ethical principle"(ibid., 42).
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    • Ibid., 43.
    • Ibid., 43.
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    • discuss this in detail in 'The Problem of Closure in Derrida," in The Ethics of Deconstruction, 59-106.
    • discuss this in detail in 'The Problem of Closure in Derrida," in The Ethics of Deconstruction, 59-106.
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    • Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 82.
    • Deconstruction and Pragmatism, 82.
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    • Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962), 383-6.
    • Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962), 383-6.
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    • "Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition," 350.
    • "Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition," 350.
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    • "The Man with the Blue Guitar," in Collected Poems, 165.
    • "The Man with the Blue Guitar," in Collected Poems, 165.


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