Deconstruction Is/In America. Anselm Haverkamp

Deconstruction Is/In America - Anselm Haverkamp


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of such a new sense of what politics might be, and might become, against the grain of what it has not ceased to be instead.2 A sense to be recovered of a politics to come, to be approached.

      Beside the many good reasons why one could think so, it is important to note that it could be otherwise. Deconstruction could be everywhere, and is everywhere, but the fact that America happens to be an exemplary place for deconstruction is not a coincidence, the coincidence, say, of America’s nostalgia for the appeal of French thought. Deconstruction could not be turned into some generalizable humanism that would feed into America’s concern for Western values. It would not exist everywhere in the same way, as McDonald’s and Coca Cola do, the simulacra of America’s being worldwide. On the contrary, deconstruction should be expected to exist in different places in very different ways. No, what keeps it in America rather than elsewhere, say Europe, and gives it a specific American place value is a sense of difference in America that is different from Europe—although one could also say that it is Europe’s sense of difference, but in a very different way. And it is the additional difference, the differentiating momentum within that difference, that comes to count (as in any difference), and is to be investigated, through deconstruction.


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