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• Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Readers and Reading 1. New Fortunes 2. Reading as a Woman 3. Stories of Reading
• Chapter Two. Deconstruction 1. Writing and Logocentrism 2. Meaning and Iterability 3. Grafts and Graft 4. Institutions and Inversions 5. Critical Consequences
• Chapter Three. Deconstructive Criticism
• Bibliography Translations Bibliography Bibliography for the 25th Anniversary Edition Index.
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With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today.
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This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference, fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics.
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• Volume I Jonathan Culler Introduction
• Part 1. What is Deconstruction? 1. Jacques Derrida Letter to a Japanese Friend, in David Wood and Robert Bernasconi eds. Derrida and Differance [Northwestern University Press, 1988] First published in 1985 by Parousia Press 2. Kevin Newmark Deconstruction: see elsewhere la differance, for example, in L. Kritzman, ed. Columbia History of Twentieth-Century Thought [Columbia University Press, 2003] 3. Geoffrey Bennington Jacques Derrida, in S. Critchley and W. Schroeder, eds. A Companion to Continental Philosophy pp. 549-558 [Blackwell, 1998] 4. Jonathan Culler Deconstruction: Writing and Logocentrism, in Jonathan Culler On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism pp.85-110 [Cornell University Press, 1982] Most of this paper originally appeared in J. Sturrock, ed. Structuralism and Since: From Levi Strauss to Derrida pp.154-180 [Oxford University Press, 1979] 5. Jacques Derrida Linguistics and Grammatology Of Grammatology, Corrected Edition pp. 27-73 [Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998] 6. Jacques Derrida Semiology and Grammatology, interview with Julia Kristeva, in Positions pp.17-36 [University of Chicago Press / Continuum Books, 1981]
• Part 2. Philosophy 7. Jacques Derrida Differance Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs pp.129-160 [Northwestern University Press, 1973] 8. Jacques Derrida from 'Plato's Pharmacy', in V. Leitch, general ed., The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism pp.1830-1876 [W.W. North & Co., 2001] Originally published as 'Plato's Pharmacy' in Dissemination pp.63-155 [University of Chicago Press / Continuum Books, 1981] 9. Jacques Derrida Signature, Event, Context, in Samuel Marin and Henry Sussman, Glyph pp. 172-197 [Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977] 10. Gordon Bearn Derrida Dry: Iterating Iterability Analytically Diacritics 25:3, pp3-25 [Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995] 11. Rodolphe Gasche Infrastructure and Systematicity, in J.Sallis, ed. Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida pp.3-20 [Chicago University Press, 1987] Originally published as 'The General System', in The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection by Rodolphe Gasche, pp.239-281 [Harvard University Press, 1986] 12. Geoffrey Bennington Deconstruction and the Philosophers (The Very Idea) Oxford Literary Review 10, pp. 73-130 [1988] Reprinted in Geoffrey Bennington Legislations: The Politics of Deconstruction pp.11-60 [Verso, 1994] 13. Luton University Press for permission to reprint Geoffrey Bennington Genuine Gasche (perhaps), from Iprimatur 1/2-3, pp.252-257 [1996] 14. Outi Pasanen Gasche.
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Contains essays discussing deconstruction by such authors as Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Barbara Johnson.
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In its most specific form, deconstruction is a mode of philosophical and literary analysis, derived from the work of French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, which questions the most basic philosophical categories or concepts. A major focus of Deconstruction has been the traditional binary oppositions that have structured Western thought since the time of the Greeks: for example, the oppositions between inside and outside, mind and body, literal and metaphorical, speech and writing, presence and absence, nature and culture, intelligible and sensible, form and meaning. Each of these oppositions is hierarchical, one of its terms has been taken to be primary, fundamental, and the other secondary and derivative. Deconstruction questions these hierarchical oppositions by showing how they have been constructed and, in the process, undoing that construction and establishing a new relation between the terms. Since deconstruction has traditionally been an activity based in philosophy, it has required, from the outset, explanation and explication. Indeed, one could argue that deconstruction has to a considerable extent been formed by critical accounts of it. This collection will reprint a cross section of these important works. The result will be a set which charts the ways in which deconstruction is conceptualised and demonstrates the impact it has had on a wide range of traditions - areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, law, gender studies and architecture.
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Readable, concise and authoritative, this classic guide to deconstruction focuses on the seminal works of Jacques Derrida, as well as the work of North American critics Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom. This third, revised edition includes an entirely new Postscript, reflecting on recent critical debate. A new list of recommended reading complements the existing, extensive bibliography.
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• A map of this book
• introduction - five strategies for deconstruction, Martin McQuillan
• avant la lettre
• opening remarks
• philosophy
• literature
• culture
• sexual difference
• psychoanalysis
• politics
• ethics
• the work of mourning
• closing statements. Bibliography of Jacques Derrida.
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Philosophers "do" "it", literary critics "do" "it", even architects, poets, painters "do" "it". It can involve the concepts of capital, politics, and justice. So what, after all, is deconstruction? This title makes an answer to this question available by offering a range of useful texts. With more than 60 selections by 50 contributors, including nine pieces by Jacques Derrida, this anthology of deconstructive reading demonstrates that deconstruction is vivid, surprising, varied, and true to the text.
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• Preface What is Deconstruction?
• N.Royle Deconstruction and Cultural Studies
• G. Spivak Deconstruction and Drugs
• D. Boothroyd Deconstruction and Ethics
• G. Bennington Deconstruction and Feminism
• D. Elam Deconstruction and Fiction
• D Attridge Deconstruction and Film
• R.Smith Deconstruction and Hermeneutics
• R. Gasche Deconstruction and Love
• P. Kamuf Deconstruction and a Poem
• J. Hillis Miller Deconstruction and Post-colonialism
• R.J.C. Young Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis
• M. Ellmann Deconstruction and Technology
• T. Clark Deconstruction and Weaving
• C Rooney Et Cetera
• J. Derrida Index.
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This guide to deconstruction ranges across topics and discourses. Chapter topics range from the obvious (feminism, post-colonialism, technology) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving). But each of the essays has more than one focus, exploring or opening on to further and other deconstructions. The book has been put together to demonstrate the ceaselessly multiple and altering contexts in which deconstructive thinking and practice are at work, both within and beyond the academy, both within and beyond what is called the West. Nicholas Royle has commissioned new essays by contemporary thinkers, including Geoffrey Bennington, Diane Elam, J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida.
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Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn demonstrates the continuing importance of deconstruction and other related movements for current literary theory, insisting on the seriousness of the deconstructive enterprise, its philosophical background, and its possible usefulness for negotiating the political terrain of the postmodern university.
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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 postscript 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 - giving details of more than two hundred books published during that period. Some critics have dismissed deconstruction as a harmless academic game; others have denounced it as a terrorist weapon or a discourse of last-ditch nihilist unreason. As Norris demonstrates, both responses are equally wide of the mark. Focusing on Derrida's major texts, and offers a detailed commentary on his readings of Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Husserl, Saussure, Levi-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 Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom - who in their own prolonged efforts to move beyond the old' New Criticism have variously registered the impact of Derrida's thought.
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• From theory to thematics - the ideological underside of recent theory, Murray Krieger
• construing and deconstructing, M.H.Abrams
• the new criticism and deconstruction - attitudes to language and literature, Rajnath
• Samuel Johnson among the deconstructionists, Jean H.Hagstrum
• philosophy, theory and the "Contest of Faculties" - saving deconstruction from the pragmatists, Christopher Norris
• the Marxism deconstruction debate in literary theory, Michael Ryan
• deconstructive philosophy and imaginal psychology - comparative perspectives on Jacques Derrida and James Hillman, Michael Vannoy Adams
• deconstruction and American poetry - Williams and Stevens, Rajeev Patke
• the anxiety of American deconstruction, Howard Felperin
• the post-turn turn - Derrida, Gadamer and the remystification of language, Leonard Orr
• "Setzung" and "Ubersetzung" - notes on Paul de Man, Rodolphe Gasche
• the lateral dance - the deconstructive criticism of J.Hillis Miller, Vincent B.Leitch
• Hartman and Derrida, Jonathan Culler.
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This collection of essays examines a wide range of topics relating to deconstruction, which emerged in France as a reaction to structuralism but has found its greatest response in America, where literary critics have built on its basic assumptions to create a new critical movement. The New Critics and deconstructionists are compared in their attitude to language and to poetry where they part company. The New Critics idealize the spatial structure with a centre, whereas the deconstructionists believe in the temporal structure and decentring. Tradition versus deconstruction, the nature of deconstruction, deconstruction and other disciplines, deconstruction of deconstruction and the future of deconstruction are discussed.
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• Signature event context
• Summary of "Reiterating the differences"
• Limited Inc a b c
• Afterword : toward an ethic of discussion.

• La desconstrucción / Emir Rodríguez Monegal
• Una meditación sobre la deslectura / Harold Bloom
• La alegoría de la lectura / Paul de Man
• La señora Dalloway / J. Hillis Miller
• La cultura de la crítica / de Geoffrey H. Hartman.

An examination of deconstruction.
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