A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Derrida’s Deconstruction Contra Habermas’s Communicative Reason
Authors: Rauno Huttunen
Editors: Michael A. Peters
Publishing place: Singapore
Publication year: 2015
Book title : Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
eISBN: 978-981-287-532-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_305-1
Web address : http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_305-1
In 1985, Jürgen Habermas (1929–) published a number of very critical comments on Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) in his book The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.
Derrida reacted by saying that Habermas had either misread him or
perhaps not even read him at all. In 1988, Derrida replied briefly yet
informatively in an interview published by Autremen 102 (Derrida 2006(external)),
after which both parties remained silent until the end of the 1990s.
(Derrida also wrote two lengthy footnotes in the 2nd English edition of
Memoires for Paul de Man, note 44 and, in Limited Inc, note 9. See
Derrida 1988, 1989.) It was then that Derrida and Habermas met at a
party and Habermas proposed a friendly discussion. Derrida and Habermas
actually set aside their differences and concentrated on themes upon
which they both agreed. Before Derrida died, they jointly published one
book and several articles.
