Derrida and Disinterest

Derrida and Disinterest

2006 | 185 | ISBN: 0826478239 , 0826491634 | PDF | 4 Mb

Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and consequence have been disputed, and its deifinition reworked. through such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking volume, Sean Gaston looks at the management of disinterest in the work of two major modern Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. He identifies the couple as part of a tradition, obscured inasmuch as the eighteenth-century, that takes disinterest to have existence the opposite of self-interest, rather than the absence of all pleased attention. Such a tradition locates disinterest at the midmost point of thinking about ethics. The part argues that disinterest plays a signifcant role in the science of causes of both thinkers and in the conference between their work. In so doing it sheds unused light on their respective contributions to bound to do what is right and political philosophy. Moreover, it traces the history of disinterest in Western philosophy from Descartes to Derrida, agitation contributions and in the of major philosopher in both the analytic, Anglo-American and Continental traditions: Locke; Shaftesbury; Hume; Smith; Nietzsche; Kant; Hegel; Heidegger. Derrida and Disinterest offers a recently made known reading of Derrida, a stimulating registry of debt and credit of the role and importance of disinterest in the account of Western philosophy and a provocation and original contribution to Continental science of duty....