Bøker av Rodolphe Gasche

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

The book situates the philosophical significance of Bataille's anthropological reflections within the fourfold made up by the names of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.

Gasche's latest book explores the concept or idea of Europe in the philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, Patoka, and Derrida, and how it is linked to the notions of rationality, universality, world, the relation the other, and responsibility.

This book explores and reassesses the philosophical notion of relation. In contrast to the scholastic, ontological conception of relation as a thing of diminished being, it views relation as the minimal and elemental theme and structure of philosophy. The author argues that rethinking relation engages the very possibility and limits of philosophical discourse.

The Honor of Thinking evaluates the concepts and discourses of critique, theory, and philosophy in light of the exigencies of what Martin Heidegger and the French post-Heideggerian thinkers have established about the nature and the tasks of thinking.

The predicate "beautiful" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation in what Kant refers to as mere form, which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas.

This text reveals the true philosophical nature of Jacques Derrida's thought, its debt to the tradition it engages, and its misuse by some of his most fervent admirers, dispels the current myth of Derrida's singularity and replaces it with a sense of the philosopher's genuine accomplishment.

One of the most knowledgeable and provocative explicators of Paul de Man's writings, Rodolphe Gasche, a philosopher by training, demonstrates, for the first time, the systematic coherence of the critic's work, insisting that de Man continues to merit close attention despite his notoriously difficult and obscure style.

Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible.