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Deconstruction and Political Economy

In: Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy

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  • Robert Albritton

    (York University)

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‘Deconstruction’ is the most important and characteristic concept in Derrida’s large and growing philosophical opus. Because it is a cluster concept that is capable of diverse forms, it has been picked up and widely disseminated throughout the corpus of postmodern thought, iterating indefinitely its protean potentials. In the process of usage, ‘deconstruction’s’ coinage has inflated, cheapening its value without reserve. And yet, unlike economic coinage, philosophical concepts can always be directly deflated to get at their less dilute usages. It is my intention to map the areas of strength and of limitations to deconstructivism.

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  • Robert Albritton, 1999. "Deconstruction and Political Economy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy, chapter 6, pages 150-178, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-21448-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230214484_6
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    Cited by:

    1. Richard Westra, 2019. "Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 51(3), pages 365-382, September.
    2. Jorgen Sandemose, 2016. "Notes on the Unity of Logic and Materialism," Journal of Social Science Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 3(1), pages 44-66, January.

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