The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida [Paperback]

'Sean Gaston's The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida is a thorough and thoroughly compelling study of a range of essential concepts associated with world in modernity ... Students of phenomenology, in particular, will benefit from this work, not least of all in its brilliant reading of Jacques Derrida.''This is a rich and original book ... [It] exemplifies the richness of continental philosophy for contemporary issues, social, ethical or political.''Beginning with Kants transcendental idea of the world and ending with Derridas theory of the world as a necessary fiction, Gaston does a fantastic job of using each philosophers writings and his own final chapter on contemporary philosophical problems to show how the concept of world is still problematic: we cant become immersed in the world and simultaneously transcend it to create a unified whole .... [T]he writing is clear and easy to follow so that it will appeal to both readers who are new to philosophy and also to scholars with an interest in continental philosophy.''One of the greatest strengths of the book is the engagement with Derridas newly published series of seminars and lectures ... [I]t should be read by anyone interested in the way that the concept of world has been interpreted in Continental philosophy.''Sean Gaston sets out to provide an account of the concept of world from the mid-eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, exploring its possibilities and limitations and engaging with current issues in politics and ecology. He focuses on the work of five principal thinkers: Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and Derrida, all of whom attempt to establish new grounds for seeing the world as a whole ... Gaston masterfully provides insight into (and a fluid reading experience of) Kants dense writing style relaying Kants regulative and categorical uses of the world as idea ... The ideas contained within this book generate a desire and a demand to return to first material. There is a welsB