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Leyshon, Benjamin (2001) Discourse on the question of incompletion. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This study presents a discourse on the question of incompletion and
simultaneously inaugurates the development of a critical approach to
contemporary social and political questions concerning selfhood, thought and
community in terms of incompletion. Such a strategy has taken place on two
main levels in this work. Firstly, there is a close textual reading and analysis
of texts where the question of incompletion has been engaged with. Secondly,
there is a historical/social analysis of existing institutions, this is a secondary
analysis of how the United Nations can be conceived in terms of completion or
incompletion in relation to the quest for community. A major part of the close
textual reading deals with French post-structuralist writers such as Bataille,
Derrida, Foucault and Jean Luc Nancy. These writers are of interest in this
work to the extent that they think central problematics of the philosophical
tradition as necessarily and unavoidably incomplete. An important tension in
the work of these writers is explored by showing that they theorise the central
concepts of the self, thought and community as being impossible to resolve in
any reachable present and yet they also do not abandon these central
problematics either. The theoretical task entails bridging the gap between the
deconstructive and the constructive, the nihilistic and the utopian within poststructuralism
itself, and this, paradoxically, is to attempt an agitated
reconciliation. Such a reconciliation may only act to deepen the difficulties to
be found within the thought of such writers, but the theorization of incompletion
does ultimately seek to both comprehend and critique contemporary difficulties
surrounding the questions of community and selfhood.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Poststructuralism | ||||
Official Date: | March 2001 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Sociology | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Wagner, Peter, 1956- ; Fine, Robert, 1945- | ||||
Sponsors: | University of Warwick | ||||
Extent: | vii, 262 leaves | ||||
Language: | eng |
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