Reading and responsibility : deconstruction's traces /
What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press,
2010
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| Series: | Frontiers of theory.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades and reflects an interest in that work going back a further two decades, shows how that work can illuminate a variety of topics. Chapters include an overview of deconstruction as a critical practice today, discussions of the secret, postcolonialism, ethics, literary criticism, jargon, fiction, and photography, and responses to the theoretical writing of Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes, and J. Hillis Miller. Also included is a discussion of the recent reading of Derrida's philosophy as 'radical atheism', and the book ends with a conversation on deconstruction and place with the theorist and critic Jean-Michel RabatÃ♭. Running throughout is a concern with the question of responsibility, as exemplified in Derrida's own readings of literary and philosophical texts: responsibility to the work being read, responsibility to the protocols of rational argument, and responsibility to the reader. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748642458 0748642455 9780748653812 0748653813 0748652116 9780748652112 1282749870 9781282749870 9786612749872 6612749873 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
