Abstract

This chapter provides a concise overview of the life and career of Jacques Derrida, exploring how his substantive philosophical writing could be relevant to a community development ‘yet-to-come’ and specifically for a renewed praxis.Derrida was a leading intellectual of what is commonly known as deconstruction, and while never explicitly writing to community development, his later work became more overtly political, hence a relevance. Following a biographical sketch, the ‘traces’ of some key elements of his work outlined foregrounding three key threads, all equally important, all interlinked.The provocation of this article is that without a radical re-constituting of praxis– a deconstructive task – community development is at risk of ossifying into a programme that is no longer haunted by justice, is no longer mobilized by the ‘passion-of-not-knowing’ and is no longer vigilant towards the Other.

中文翻译：

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“尚未到来的社区发展”：雅克·德里达 (Jacques Derrida) 与重建社区发展实践

摘要

本章简要概述了雅克·德里达的生平和事业，探讨了他的实质性哲学著作如何与“尚未到来”的社区发展相关，特别是与更新的实践相关。德里达是一位领先的知识分子通常被称为解构，虽然他从未明确写过社区发展，但他后来的作品变得更加公开，因此具有相关性。根据传记草图，他作品中一些关键要素的“痕迹”勾勒出三个关键线索，它们同样重要，相互关联。本文的挑衅在于，没有对实践进行彻底的重构——一项解构性的任务——社区发展有可能僵化成一个不再受正义困扰的计划，