In Beyond Romance, M.C. Dillon offers a passionate, intimate, and wide-ranging exploration into the nature of love and loving, and examines the central place of sexual love in the meaningfulness of our lives. As a distinguished philosopher in the phenomenological tradition, he indicts the pursuit of romantic love as an idealized illusion that is ultimately blind to ...(Read More)
Semiological Reductionism
(July 1995)
A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought M. C. Dillon - Author
This critical interpretation shows Derridian thought to be permeated by a semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs thus challenging the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots.
This book interprets Derrida and looks beyond deconstructionism. It is a critique that identifies a pervasive flaw in Derrida's thinking: the semiological reduction that permeates deconstructionist theory and postmoderni...(Read More)
"The topic is extremely significant. In my view, the study can help to reorient continental philosophy, and also have some impact on Anglo-American thought. Dillon is to be congratulated for having assembled such a splendid collection of essays." -- Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame "I find this a very impressive set of essays, both in terms of their quality and their representational characteristics. A true (and valid)...(Read More)