Naslov
Derrida's Jefferson

Autori
Jukić, Tatjana

Izvornik
Working papers in American studies (1849-6180) 2 (2016); 81-98

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Thomas Jefferson, Jacques Derrida, parataxis, revolution, authority, modernity, deconstruction

Sažetak
Hannah Arendt claims that the American Revolution provides a standard against which political modernity can be analyzed, also that subsequent revolutions failed to engage the conceptual purity of the American model. In contrast to Arendt, Jacques Derrida, in “Declarations of Independence”, renounces Jefferson’s thought as inadequate, and excuses himself from engaging it on critical terms. Given the fact that Derrida later mobilizes Marx in order to explore similar concerns, now in terms of secularized messianism and from an Abrahamic angle, I analyze how Derrida’s Marx constitutes a position from which to reassess Derrida’s Jefferson.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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