By William Corlett
Now on hand in paperback with a brand new preface by way of the writer, this award-winning ebook breaks new flooring by way of demanding conventional options of group in political thought. William Corlett brings the various (and occasionally contradictory) paintings of Foucault and Derrida to endure at the considered Pocock, Burke, Lincoln, and McIntyre, between others, to maneuver past the traditional dichotomy of "individual vs. community," arguing in its place that neighborhood is healthier complicated inside a politics of difference.
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Part III carries a plea to politicize the excess Derrida would maintain in silence; the symmetrically arranged chapters of the book draw to a close there. Derrida opens new ground-a nonbasis of play upon which the history of meaning takes off -but it still may be unclear, in a practical way, exactly how his work does not rule out an affirmative politics of community. To clarify this I have added a supplement to the book. There my argument loses its theoretical flavor and addresses the practice of everyday life.
It is no longer possible to use subject in the usual sense of identity without also using it in the sense of discipline. And the question of what we are not producing looms heavily overhead during the production of rational, orderly arguments. But metaphor is never innocent. Connolly (1988) is showing that the days of mastery and attunement are numbered. Foucauldian criticism and the new line of products concerning domination and discipline makes criticism of the island metaphor of industrial inversion inevitable.
Mastering the negativity required to invert polarities must be attended by efforts to dismantle or neutralize the opposition altogether. All polar distinctions must be supplemented in the sense that they are shown not to be sovereign. And then there are strategies designed to preclude the emergence of new oppositions, of new hierarchies, of new synthetic ways of mutilating difference. 5 To articulate this difficult ban, I shall borrow the notion of excess from Derrida, who borrows it from Bataille.