According to the historical de"nition of philosophy among Western philosophers from Hegel to his anti-historical critics Levinas, Derrida, and Rorty, non-Western peoples have many intellectual practices but in a crucial sense they lack “philosophy.” !is absence meant for Hegel the want of a non-pictorial and abstract, cognitive, conceptual thinking; for later thinkers such as Levinas, Derrida, ...

READERS OF PLATO’S dialogues would recognize a constantly renewed desire to define philosophy and to distinguish it from sophistry, rhetoric, poetry, etc. One suspects that this attempt to delimit philosophy as a discourse is itself what philosophizing is. In Plato, reflexivity is already inscribed into the nature of philosophical activity. The Phaedo and the Phaedrus are two of Plato’s dialogu...

What is deconstruction? Nothing, of course. (Derrida, 1991, p. 275) . . . deconstruction doesn’t consist in a set of theorems, axioms, tools, rules, techniques, methods . . . there is no deconstruction, deconstruction has no specific object . . . (Derrida, 1996, p. 218) . . . deconstruction is neither an analysis nor a critique. . . . I would say the same about method. Deconstruction is not a m...

This paper presents social and political dimensions of forgiveness within Jacques Derrida’s philosophy. philosophy is an example how can help us understand resolve contemporary issues. Derrida believes that traditional concept should be broadened beyond the bounds rational imaginable. According to Derrida, needs rethinking because phenomenon proliferation scenes after Second World War produced ...

The paper outlines the theoretical and methodological complexity of historical-philosophi- cal study Georges Bataille’s literary philosophical heritage, In: particular «Inner Expe- rience», one his key works, which is about to be released in Ukrainian. To this end, I analyze biographical historical-philosophical contexts writing Experience». observe main events thinker’s life, led work testify ...

richard mckay rorty (1932-2007) is the american neo-pragmatist. criticizing the prevalent issues of traditional philosophy such as truth, knowledge, objectivity, logic and philosophy, he considers epistemology a modern subject which emerged via forging the mind by rene descartes. in his view, separation of mind–body is an unprecedented matter created in descartes philosophy. he thinks that, i...