Philosophy, Language & The Political: Poststructuralism in Perspective

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The book is based on the proceedings of the conference on ‘Philosophy, Language and the Political – Reevaluating Poststructuralism’ held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on the 10th, 11th and 12th December 2014. Several scholars from India and abroad participated in it. The book comprises 17 papers that were presented at the event, besides three additional papers, plus a Preface by Marc Crepon, as well as a description of the conference and a thematic introduction, both by Franson Manjali.

The contributiors discuss diverse aspects of the poststructuralist and related philosophical ideas and practices, in the works of Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Helene Cixous, Jurgen Habermas, Jean-Luc Nancy, Georgio Agambed, Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heideggar, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzche, Baruch Spinoza, and several other philosophers. The questions of language, literature, culture, art, the political, feminism, self and the other death, theology, violence, shame, the animal, psychoanalysis, Marxism, etc, receive scholarly attention of the contributors.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Franson Manjali

Franson Manjali teaches linguistics and semiotics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He translated from French Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophicla Chronicles (2007). He has recently edited Post-Structuralism and Cultural Theory (2006) and Nietzsche: Philogist, Philosopher and Cultural Critic (2006). His major publications include Literature and Infinity (20010, Meaning, Culture and Cognition (2000) and Nuclear Semantics-Towards Theory of Relational Meaning (1991).

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Philosophy, Language & The Political: Poststructuralism in Perspective
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1st. ed.
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9789350024843
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