Deconstruction: A Reader

Martin McQuillan

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2001

Deconstruction

A Reader

Martin McQuillan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474470919

Overview
Contents

About this book

This is not a Derrida Reader. It is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. The collection examines the fortunes of the term deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of the leading commentators on Derrida's texts. It includes previously untranslated, newly translated and uncollected work by Derrida and others.

Deconstruction: A Reader begins with examples of pre-Derridean deconstruction, then divides into sections covering philosophy, literature, culture, sexual difference, psychoanalysis, politics, ethics, and memorial texts and interviews by Derrida. It covers a broad range of topics including: AIDS, architecture, art, feminism, ghosts, law, Marxism, postmodernism, race, revolution, Shakespeare, technology, telepathy and theology.

This is an indispensable anthology and a guide both to the history of deconstruction and to its current scene. It provides a significant introduction to the challenge of deconstruction.

Key Features

The first anthology devoted to deconstruction
Broad thematic and interdisciplinary coverage
The introductory essay provides a cogent and sustained set of definitions of deconstruction
Includes previously untranslated, newly translated and uncollected work by Derrida and others
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A map of this book Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction: five strategies or deconstruction Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Pat I Avant la Lettre
1.1 From capital Karl Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
1.2 'A note upon the "mystic writing pad"' Sigmund Freud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
1.3 'The meaning of general economy' Georges Bataille Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
1.4 'Critique violence' Walter Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
1.5 'The task of destroying the history of ontology' Martin Heidegger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
1.6 'The moment after' Edmond Jabes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
1.7 'In praise of water' Paul Valéry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
1.8 'Friendship' Maurice Blanchot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part 2 Opening remarks
2.1 'A number of yes (nombre de oui)' Jaques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Part 3 Philosophy
3.1 'Deconstruction, post-modernism and the visual arts' Christopher Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
3.2 'Philosophy as a kind of writing an essay on Derrida' Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
3.3 'Deconstruction as criticism' Rodolphe Gasché Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
3.4 'Genuine Gasché (Perhaps)' Geoffrey Bennington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
3.5 'Black Socrates? Questioning the philosophical tradition' Simon Critchley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
3.6 'Discussions, or phrasing "after Auschwitz"' Jean-François Lyotard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Part 4 Literature
4.1 'Derrida's topographies' J. Hillis Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
4.2 'Autobiography as de-facement' Paul de Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
4.3 'Ghost writing' Derek Attridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
4.4 'The phantom review' Nicholas Royale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
4.5 'Hamlet's dilemma' Catherine Belsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
4.6 'The ghosts of critique and deconstruction Peggy Kamuf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Part 5 Culture
5.1 'Deconstruction is not what you think' Geoffry Bennington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
5.2 'Derrida, architecture and philosophy' Andrew Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
5.3 'Violence of Architecture' Bernard Tschumi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
5.4 'Thinking technology' Richard Beardsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
5.5 'Toward a Narcoanalysis' Avial Ronell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
5.6 'Speech acts politically' Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
5.7 'Homeconopoesis I' Fred Botting and Scott Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Part 6 Sexual difference
6.1 'Unnecessary introductions' Diane Elam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
6.2 'The same difference' Robert Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
6.3 'Gender theory and the yale school' Barbara Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
6.4 'Domestication' Rachel Bowlby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
6.5 'Recognising the virus' Alexander Duttmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
6.6 'What is it o'clock? or the door (we never enter)' Hélène Cixous Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Part 7 Psychoanalysis
7.1 'Psychoanalysis: the french connection' Geoffrey Hartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
7.2 From the wolf man's magic word Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
7.3 'The sideshow, or: remarks on a canny moment' Samuel Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
7.4 'The remains of psychoanalysis (I): telepathy' Nicholas Royale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
7.5 From prosthesis David Wills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
Part 8 Politics
8.1 'Marx and Derrida Michael Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
8.2 'Spectres of engels' Willy Maley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
8.3 'The deconstruction of politics' Bill Readings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
8.4 'Practical politics of the open end' Gayatri Spivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
8.5 'Why do empty signifiers matter in politics?' Ernesto Laclau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
8.6 'Of mimicry and man: the ambivalence of colonial discourse' Homi K. Bhabha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
Part 9 Ethics
9.1 'Jacques Derrida: wholly otherwise' Emmanuel Levinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
9.2 'The trace of Levinas in Derrida' Robert Bernasconi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
9.3 'Post-structuralism, the ethical relation and the law' Drucilla Cornell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
9.4 'In the name of...' Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
9.5 'What is to be done?' Jean-Luc Nancy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	456
9.6 'God is not Différance' John D. Caputo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	458
Part 10 The work of mourning
10.1 '(In memorium) Paul de Man' Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
10.2 'Text read at Louis Althusser's funeral' Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
10.3 'Adieu: Emmanuel Levinas' Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	476
10.4 'I'm going to have to wander all alone: Gilles Deleuze' Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
10.5 Friendship-above-all [Amitié-à-tout-rompre]: Jean-François Lyotard Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
Part II Closing statements
11.1 'Open letter to Bill Clinton' Pierre Jacques Derrida and Mendès France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
11.2 'Telepathy' Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	496
11.3 'The deconstruction of actuality: an interview with Jacques Derrida' Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
Bibliographies
Bibliography 1: Jaques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555
Bibliography 2: Key publications of contributing authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	562
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	574

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 600
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: January 9, 2001
ISBN: 9781474470919