Deconstruction Theory and Practice

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General editor: Terence Hawkes


WHAT IS DECONSTRUCTION? WHY HAS IT PROVOKED sur H EXTREME PARTISAN RESPONSES?
Since first appearing in 1982 this book has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative text of its kind. While in no way oversimplifying the complexities of the subject or understating the challenge it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessible to the open-minded reader. For this revised edition the author has provided a substantial Afterword which looks back over the past ten years of critical debate and seeks to correct some prevalent misunderstandings. The volume also contains an updated bibliography - among the most extensive of its kind - with details of more than two hundred books published during that period.
Focusing on Derrida's major texts, and offering a detailed commentary on his readings of Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Husserl, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, J. L. Austin and others, this book... Tovább

Fülszöveg

NEW ACCENTS
General editor: Terence Hawkes


WHAT IS DECONSTRUCTION? WHY HAS IT PROVOKED sur H EXTREME PARTISAN RESPONSES?
Since first appearing in 1982 this book has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative text of its kind. While in no way oversimplifying the complexities of the subject or understating the challenge it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessible to the open-minded reader. For this revised edition the author has provided a substantial Afterword which looks back over the past ten years of critical debate and seeks to correct some prevalent misunderstandings. The volume also contains an updated bibliography - among the most extensive of its kind - with details of more than two hundred books published during that period.
Focusing on Derrida's major texts, and offering a detailed commentary on his readings of Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Husserl, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, J. L. Austin and others, this book brings out the extraordinary subtlety and force that have characterized his project from the outset. Norris also examines the work of those North American critics - Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hart-man, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom - who in their own prolonged effort to move beyond the 'old' New Criticism have variously registered the impact of Derrida's thought.
Christopher Norris is Professor of English at the University of Wales, College of Cardiff. Vissza