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Deconstructive Realism and the Naturalization of
Bourgeois Metaphysics
Jan 08, 2022
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This seminar explores the relationship between Derrida’s
realism and his critique of Marxism in order to assess the resources that
deconstruction offers contemporary realist/materialist projects. Starting from
Derrida’s recently published lecture course Theory and Practice, Elmore details
Derrida’s resistance, particularly in his critique of Althusser, to a number of
key Marxist assertations in order to show how this resistance complicates the
recent and quite compelling attempts to find in Derrida’s thought a dynamic
realism/materialism. In particular, it is Derrida’s strange resistance to the
materialist insistence on the preponderance of the object that, for Elmore, proves
most decisive and problematic, this resistance at odds with Derrida’s dynamic
account of the real itself.
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Rick Elmore)