Deconstruction : a reader
This is the first volume to offer a selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its radical diversity. It examines the fortunes of the term deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of the leading commentators on Derrida's texts.
Print Book, Undefined, 2001
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2001
xv, 579 pages
9780748612550, 9780748612567, 0748612556, 0748612564
824650990
Introduction: Five strategies for deconstruction / Martin McQuillan
pt. 1. Avant la lettre. 1.1. from Capital / Karl Marx. 1.2. 'A note upon the "Mystic Writing Pad"' / Sigmund Freud. 1.3. 'The meaning of general economy' / Georges Bataille. 1.4. 'Critique of violence' / Walter Benjamin. 1.5. 'The task of destroying the history of ontology' / Martin Heidegger. 1.6. 'The moment after' / Edmond Jabes. 1.7. 'In praise of water' / Paul Valery. 1.8. 'Friendship' / Maurice Blanchot
pt. 2. Opening Remarks. 2.1. 'A number of yes (Nombre de oui)' / Jacques Derrida
pt. 3. Philosophy. 3.1. 'Deconstruction, post-modernism and the visual arts' / Christopher Norris. 3.2. 'Philosophy as a kind of writing' / Richard Rorty