Deconstruction : theory and practice / Christopher Norris.
"In this third, revised edition, Norris builds upon his 1991 afterword with an entirely new postscript, reflecting upon recent critical debate. The postscript includes an extensive list of recommended reading, complementing what was already one of the most useful bibliographies available."...
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London ; New York :
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Roots: structuralism and new criticism. From Kant to Saussure: the prison-house of concepts ; New critic into structuralist? ; Roland Barthes ; Beyond new criticism.
- Jacques Derrida: language against itself. Blindness and insight: deconstructing the new criticism ; Language, writing, differance ; Culture, nature, writing: Rousseau and Lévi-Strauss.
- From voice to text: Derrida's critique of philosophy. Phenomenology and/or structuralism?
- Nietzsche: philosophy and deconstruction. Nietzsche, Plato and the sophists ; Deconstruction on two wheels ; Writing and philosophy ; Beyond interpretation? ; Nietzsche and Heidegger ; Nietzsche's umbrella.
- Between Marx and Nietzsche: the politics of deconstruction. Derrida on Hegel ; Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction ; Nietzsche contra Marx? ; Foucault and Said: the rhetoric of power.
- The American connection. Deconstruction 'on the wild side': Geoffrey Hartman and J. Hillis Miller ; Paul de Man: rhetoric and reason ; Deconstruction at the limit? ; 'Ordinary language': the challenge from Austin ; Harold Bloom ; Derrida and Bloom on Freud.
- Conclusion: Dissenting voices. Wittgenstein: language and scepticism.
- Afterword (1991): Further thoughts on deconstruction, postmodernism and the politics of theory.