Difference (Second Edition)

Author: Jin Huimin
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: The purpose of Difference in Issue 2 remains a profound engagement with cutting-edge issues in contemporary international academia. Its cutting-edge nature is not market-driven. If it is recognized by many readers, it is because of the novelty, originality, and depth of its ideas, thus its focus lies in exploring and expanding the domain of intellectual issues. If it is necessary to insist on the term "market-driven," the editors would rather understand it as a synonym for "social," as it represents the concern of intellectual academia with contemporary social issues. Derrida became a philosophical master influential across many disciplines in the latter half of the 20th century not because he consciously catered to market needs, but because his ideas were deeply relevant to contemporary society. Vulgarity is not social, whether in affirmative or pseudo-negative forms.