The Political Event

Steffen Böhm

Chapter 4 in Repositioning Organization Theory, 2006, pp 52-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The previous chapter engaged with the German philosophical tradition of destruction. The difficulty with writing about a philosophical concept such as destruction is that it cannot be easily defined; or, rather, it cannot be defined. One cannot simply say ‘Destruction is X,’ because such a statement can itself be subjected to destruction. The point of destruction is that one can put any statement into question – one can expose the deceptive totality of any knowledge by destructing it. Therefore, a concept like destruction resists definition. This is exactly the point Derrida makes in his ‘Letter to a Japanese Friend’ in which he tries to explain the impossibility of defining deconstruction:

Keywords: Civil Society; Political Event; Social Decision; Symbolic Order; Discursive Formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230501416_4

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