Ostateczna de(kon)strukcja. Nuklearna apokalipsa Derridy
Total de(con)struction. Derrida’s nuclear apocalypse

Summary/Abstract: The essay analyses one of two articles by Jacques Derrida dealing with nuclear apocalypse: "No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Missiles Seven, Seven missives)". From out of the catastrophic sentiments of the modern day, he built an apocalyptic discourse and a nuclear criticism. In order to describe these phenomena, he drew upon the historiosophy of Giambattista Vico, the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo, and the ideas of Susan Sontag and J. D. Caputo. At the time Derrida was working on this critical nuclear project, it certainly offered more promising prospects than it does today, when many alternative or overlapping “final” visions of the world are competing for dominance. It therefore seems that we should rather speak of an apocalyptic criticism.

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