The 'archaic structures of our desire'

dc.contributor.authorVan Marle, Karin
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-30T08:00:07Z
dc.date.available2011-03-30T08:00:07Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractWhat I am interested in and what I want to argue for in this piece is what Drucilla Cornell, following Jacques Derrida, calls 'an alternative ethic of love'. The failure of love or 'love's failure' will be taken as a reason for the persistence of violations, exclusions, inequality, discrimination and injustice in private and public lives, and in a more abstract sense also for the failure of politics, friendship and the law. The philosophy of deconstruction and specifically the work of Jacques Derrida do much to expose the persistence of phallogocentrism - the centrality of maleness - in the philosophy of ideas and in ordinary life, in what we tend to regard as natural in our deepest desire. For Derrida, phallogocentrism must be challenged not only through writing and thinking, but also by how we live, and how we are influenced by the unconscious.en
dc.identifier.citationVan Marle, K 2010, 'The 'archaic structures of our desire', SA Publiekreg/SA Public Law, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 195-208.en
dc.identifier.issn0258-6568
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/16141
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISAen_US
dc.rightsThe Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISAen_US
dc.subjectArchaic structuresen
dc.subjectPhallogocentrismen
dc.subject.lcshLove -- Philosophyen
dc.subject.lcshDerrida, Jacques -- Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subject.lcshLaw -- Philosophyen
dc.titleThe 'archaic structures of our desire'en
dc.typeArticleen

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