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Reviewed Work(s): The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas by Simon Critchley
Review by: Silvia Benso
Source: The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Mar., 1994), pp. 605-606
Published by: Philosophy Education Society Inc.
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SUMMARIES AND COMMENTS 605
monarchical rule which does not take its foundation immediately from
God. Theories supporting papal supremacy seem closer to absolute
monarchical rule than to a mixed constitution with a tempered monarch,
but the very presence of a supreme religious authority tended to under
mine the authority of the kings.
Blythe's second premise is, of course, the more controversial one. If
it should prove to be true, then the standard interpretations of early
modern political thought would have to be reconsidered. Unfortu
nately, this part of the work is not as complete and thorough as it might
be. Blythe does not deny that there are differences between Scholas
ticism and the Italian humanists, but he certainly stresses the continui
ties rather than the discontinuities. One would hope that the author
might in the future expand his remarks on the early republicans of
Northern Italy, especially Machiavelli (pp. 292-5). At present, the view
that early modern political thought inherited some of its most cherished
views from the thirteenth century remains controversial.?Douglas
Kries, Gonzaga University.
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606 IAN BELL AND STAFF
Dascal, Marcelo, ed. Cultural Relativism and Philosophy: North and Latin
American Perspectives. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1991. xii + 316 pp. n.p.?
In the introduction and acknowledgments of this book Marcelo Dascal
informs the reader as to the peculiar history behind the book and to the
vision which inspired it. In particular, the dominance of Western Cul
ture, evidenced by the presence of Coca-Cola, the dream of democratic
freedom, and aspirations to the wonders of the market economy in all
but the most remote parts of the world has created a tension between
North America and Latin America in many, perhaps all, facets of life (p.
1). This tension has developed because the values present in North
America are at odds with the values present, at least historically, in Latin
America. This tension can result in one set of values being declared
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