Alienation After Derrida

Alienation After Derrida rearticulates the Hegelian-Marxist theory of alienation in the light of Derrida''s deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. Simon Skempton aims to demonstrate in what way Derridian deconstruction can itself be said to be a critique of alienation. In so doing, he argues that the acceptance of Derrida''s deconstructive concepts does not necessarily entail the acceptanc...