Keywords:
Deconstruction - Congresses
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive?. To address these questions, this volume brings together some of the most provocative thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Avital Ronnel. Ranging across a wide field, from the ethics of reading to the rhetoric of performance, the contributors offer provocative insights into a new sense of the political. The America of the volume's title turns out to be the place where the politics and poetics of responsibility m
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p.)
ISBN:
9780814735183
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=866171
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=866171
DDC:
810.9358
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Deconstruction is/as Neopragmatism?: Preliminary Remarks on Deconstruction in America; The Time is Out of Joint; I The Time of Analysis; 1 Deconstruction and the Lyric; 2 Reading Epitaphs; 3 Upping the Ante: Deconstruction as Parodic Practice; II The Point of Teaching; 4 The Disputed Ground: Deconstruction and Literary Studies; 5 Une drôle de classe de philo; 6 Going Public: The University in Deconstruction; III The Politics of Singularity; 7 Possibilizations, in the Singular; 8 Writing Resistances
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9 Presentness and the "Being-Only-Once" of ArchitectureIV The Performance of Difference; 10 Burning Acts: Injurious Speech; 11 Republic, Rhetoric, and Sexual Difference; 12 The Test Drive; V A New Sense of the Political; 13 Ghost Writing; 14 The Form of Politics; 15 At the Planchette of Deconstruction is/in America; 16 Jaded in America;
