Europe as an Advanced Point? European Identity and Its Limits
In the beginning of the nineties Jacques Derrida addressed, in a colloquium on “European Cultural Identity”, certain possibilities about the different paths the new Europe could take. The address, entitled “The Other Heading”, departed with some initial concerns about what constitutes European identity and its relations towards others. What is the basis for such an […]
Posted at 12:45 am on July 21, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Derrida, Mouffe, Postmodernism/-structuralism General | read on
Towards a Modified Discourse Theory pt. 1: Laclau’s “Empty Signifier”
This trilogy is a small summary of a brief discussion I’ve been having with Lasse Thomassen – researcher, writer and lecturer of all things connected with Derridean theory. The discussion started off with a general question being raised in a seminar concerning whether Derrida’s concept of “to-come” (1992, multimedia) was active in all discourses or […]
Posted at 2:58 pm on May 3, 2007 | 9 comments | Filed Under: Derrida, Laclau, Mouffe, Postmodernism/-structuralism General, poststructuralism, Uncategorized | read on
