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Alienation After Derrida Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy Series Editor: James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy is a major monograph series from Continuum. The series features fi rst-class scholarly research monographs across the fi eld of Continental philosophy. Each work makes a major contribution to the fi eld of philosophical research. Adorno’s Concept of Life, Alastair Morgan Badiou, Marion and St Paul, Adam Miller Being and Number in Heidegger’s Thought, Michael Roubach Deleuze and Guattari, Fadi Abou-Rihan Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation, Joe Hughes Deleuze and the Unconscious, Christian Kerslake Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New, edited by Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke Derrida, Simon Morgan Wortham Derrida and Disinterest, Sean Gaston The Domestication of Derrida, Lorenzo Fabbri Encountering Derrida, edited by Simon Morgan Wortham and Allison Weiner Foucault’s Heidegger, Timothy Rayner Gadamer and the Question of the Divine, Walter Lammi Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling, Sharin N. Elkholy Heidegger and Aristotle, Michael Bowler Heidegger and Logic, Greg Shirley Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology, Peter S. Dillard Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction, Michael Lewis Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change, Ruth Irwin Heidegger’s Early Philosophy, James Luchte Levinas and Camus, Tal Sessler Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology, Kirk M. Besmer Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future, edited by Jeffrey Metzger Nietzsche’s Ethical Theory, Craig Dove Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by James Luchte The Philosophy of Exaggeration, Alexander Garcia Düttmann Sartre’s Phenomenology, David Reisman Time and Becoming in Nietzsche’s Thought, Robin Small Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? Gregg Lambert Žižek and Heidegger, Thomas Brockelman Alienation After Derrida Simon Skempton Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Simon Skempton, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4411-0474-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group For Anna This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction: Derrida and Alienation 1 Inalienable Alienation 2 The Present 5 The Proper 10 The Human 16 The Ensuing Investigation 17 1 Alienation and Presence: A Historical Sketch 21 Origins: The Bible and Neo-Platonism 21 The Corruption of Nature: Rousseau 24 Reintegration through the Aesthetic: Schiller 26 Nostalgia for the Unity of Being: The Early German Romantics 31 Knowledge as Alienation: Schelling 33 Knowledge as Reconciliation: Hegel 35 The Projection of the Human Essence: Feuerbach 36 Singularity and Authenticity: Stirner 38 Production and Commodifi cation: Marx 40 Reifi cation: Lukács 41 Aspects of Alienation 44 2 Difference and Alienation in Hegel 49 The Proximity of Derrida and Hegel 49 Externalization and Estrangement 53 Organicism or Critique 58 Substance and Subject 67 Appropriation of the Other 73 The Transcendental Remainder 75 Actual Infi nity 82 Unalienated Mind 90 3 Determinability and Objectifi cation in Marx 96 Capitalist Différance 96 Essential Relationality 99 Types of Objectifi cation 108 viii Contents Humanizing Appropriation 120 Universal An-economy 123 4 Heidegger’s Deconstruction of Ontological Alienation 127 The Presence of Alienation 127 Presence as Objectifi cation 134 Technicity 143 Infi nite Finitude 146 Owning 150 5 Deconstructive De-alienation 160 Différance and Praxis 160 The Other’s Other: The Alienation of Alterity 170 Irreducibility of the Political 178 Irreconcilable De-alienation 180 Conclusion 193 Notes 203 Bibliography 221 Index 227 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Peter Osborne under whose supervision the fi rst draft of this work was written. I would also like to thank Peter Hallward and Simon Glendinning for their useful and encouraging comments on the text.
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