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• The force of deconstruction
• The possibility of deconstruction
• The violence of deconstruction
• Have we done with the empire of judgment?

• Acknowledgements \ Introduction: Other Deconstructions: `il faut avenir' \
• 1. Toucher I: The Problem with Self-Touching \
• 2. Toucher II: Keep Your Hands to Yourself, Jean-Luc Nancy \
• 3. Deconstruction and Globalization: The World According to Jean-Luc Nancy \
• 4. The Secrets of Paul de Man \
• 5. `Deja Vieux': Derrida's Late Conjuration of de Man \
• 6. Is Deconstruction Really A Jewish Science? The Derrida of Harold Bloom \
• 7. New (Improved) French Feminisms: Reading Spivak Reading Cixous \
• 8. `Practical Deconstruction': a note on some notes by Judith Butler
• 9. Modernity, Aesthetics and Community in Jacques Ranciere and Paul de Man \
• 10. Extra Time and Death Penalties: the Terror of Slavoj zizek \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index.
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The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction without Derrida, Martin McQuillan sets out to do just that, to continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without Derrida. The book's principal theme is an attention to instances of deconstruction other than or beyond Derrida and thus imagining a future for deconstruction after Derrida. This future is both the present of deconstruction and its past. The readings presented in this book address the expanded field of deconstruction in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak and Catherine Malabou. They also, necessarily, address Derrida's own readings of this work. McQuillan accounts for an experience of otherness in deconstruction that is, has been and always will be beyond Derrida, just as deconstruction remains forever tied to Derrida by an invisible, indestructible thread.
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• Introduction
• Nietzsche : Burke, Heidegger
• Common ground and "being there"
• Burke's Act and paradox of being
• Being : the later Heidegger
• The "thing" and questions of faith
• Conclusion : the necessary metaphysics
• Appendix : note against deconstructionism.

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; WHY DE MAN?; KEY IDEAS; Literary language and misreading: Blindness and Insight; Rhetoric, reading and deconstruction: Allegories of Reading; Deconstruction as an experience of the impossible: The Resistance toTheory; Disfiguration, defacement and autobiography: The Rhetoric of Romanticism; Politics, philosophy and the figural: Aesthetic Ideology; Responsibility and authorship: De Man's wartime journalism; AFTER DE MAN; Appendix: 'The Jews in Contemporary Literature'; FURTHER READING; Works cited.

• Index.

This book explains why de Man is such an important voice, detailing his critical position, exploring his intellectual and historical contexts, tracing the influence of his work and enabling readers to undertake independent study of his criticism.

• Readers and Reading
• Deconstruction
• Deconstructive Criticism.

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.

• FC; Half title; Also available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Simon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano; 1 Ashes to Ashes: Derrida's Holocaust Gil Anidjar; 2 'There Shall Be No Mourning' Simon Morgan Wortham; 3 Transference Love in the Age of 'isms' Herman Rapaport; 4 Kindling; or, Suicide by Fire Elissa Marder; 5 Fort Spa: In at the Deep End with Derrida and Ferenczi Lynn Turner; 6 The Obverse Side of Jacques Derrida's 'Freud and the Scene of Writing' Céline Surprenant

• 7 The Desire for Survival? Kas Saghafi8 The King Is Dead! Long Live the King! Chiara Alfano; Index

"The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well. Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes."--Bloomsbury Publishing

• Introduction : so what's the story? / Clayton Koelb
• Redeeming revenge : Nietzsche, Benjamin, Heidegger, and the politics of memory / Rebecca Comay
• Translating, repeating, naming : Foucault, Derrida, and The genealogy of morals / Gary Shapiro
• Nietzsche's madman : perspectivism without nihilism / Debra B. Bergoffen
• Language and deconstruction : Nietzsche, de Man, and postmodernism / Maudemarie Clark
• Nietzsche contra Nietzsche : the deconstruction of Zarathustra / Daniel W. Conway
• De Man missiing Nietzsche : Hinzugedichtet revisited / Richard H. Weisberg
• The dance from mouth to hand (speaking Zarathustra's write foot foreword) / Graham Parkes
• Reading as a philosophical strategy : Nietzsche's The gay science / Clayton Koelb
• Nietzsche's physiology of ideological criticism / Claudia Crawford
• Nietzsche and postmodern subjectivity / Kathleen Higgins
• The mask of Nietzsche's self-overcoming / Charles E. Scott
• Zarathustra's three metamorphoses / Robert Gooding-Williams
• Nietzsche and the condition of postmodern thought : post-Nietzschean postmodernism / Babette E. Babich
• Nietzsche, postmodernism, and resentment : a genealogical hypothesis / Robert C. Solomon.

• Part 1 Deconstruction, Canadian postmodernism, and Robert Kroetsch: writing with two hands - Derridean deconstruction
• gaining ground - situating Robert Kroetsch in Canadian postmodernism
• field notes - Robert Kroetsch and the critics
• learning the hero - alibi and the critics. Part 2 The writing of Robert Kroetsch: a Canadian issue - the Canadian story
• unhiding the hidden - archaeology, dialectic, intertextuality, and voice
• carnival and violence - the quest of love
• fear of women - a misogynist erotics
• the disappearing father - Anna Dawe's quest
• Canadian postmodernism and difference.
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Tiefensee contends that Kroetsch and his critics have, to some degree, misunderstood the implications of Derrida's "deconstruction" and adhere to a Bloomian "misreading" which is firmly grounded in traditional philosophy. She addresses the metaphysical presuppositions that govern Kroetsch's criticism, literary theory, and novels and considers the extent to which his theoretical pronouncements have determined his critics' readings of his work, concluding that Kroetsch reaffirms the very values, conventions, and attitudes he claims to resist.
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• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: Restoring Life to Its Original Difficulty Part One: Repetition and the Genesis of Hermeneutics
• CHAPTER I. Repetition and Kinesis: Kierkegaard on the Foundering of Metaphysics
• CHAPTER II. Repetition and Constitution: Husserl's Proto-Hermeneutics
• CHAPTER III. Retrieval and the Circular Being of Dasein: Hermeneutics in Being and Time Part Two: Deconstruction and the Radicalization of Hermeneutics
• CHAPTER IV. Hermeneutics after Being and Time
• CHAPTER V. Repetition and the Emancipation of Signs: Derrida on Husserl
• CHAPTER VI. Hermes and the Dispatches from Being: Derrida on Heidegger
• CHAPTER VII. Cold Hermeneutics: Heidegger/Derrida Part Three: The Hermenuatic Project
• CHAPTER VIII. Toward a Postmetaphysical Rationality
• CHAPTER IX. Toward an Ethics of Dissemination
• CHAPTER X. Openess to the Mystery List of Abbreviations Notes Index.
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Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted. For John D. Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth over them.
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• Introduction: Taking Rorty Seriously
• 1. The Contingency of Being
• 2. Derrida, the Transcendental and Theoretical Ascetism
• 3. The Resistance of Theory
• Bibliography.
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In The Domestication of Derrida, Lorenzo Fabbri argues that Rorty's powerful reading protocol is motivated by the necessity to contain the risks of Derrida's critique of Western philosophy and politics. Rorty claims that Derrida reduces philosophy to a production of private fantasies that do not have any political or epistemological relevance. Fabbri challenges such an aberrant appropriation by investigating the two key features of Rorty's privatization of deconstruction: the reduction of deconstructive writing to an example of merely autobiographical literature; and the idea that Derrida not only dismisses, but also mocks the desire to engage philosophy with political struggle. What is ultimately questioned in The Domestication of Derrida is the legitimacy of labelling deconstruction as a post-modern withdrawal from politics and theory. By discussing Derrida's resistance against the very possibility of theoretical and political ascetism, Fabbri shows that there is much more politics and philosophy in deconstruction than Rorty is willing to admit.
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• Introduction Part I. Translating Heidegger
• Chapter 1. Philosophical Hermeneutics as a "Transposition of Heidegger"
• Chapter 2. Understanding as a Historically Effected Event First Preliminary Conclusion: Gadamer the Modest Disciple Part II. Tradutore Tradittore
• Chapter 3. The Silent Turn Against Heidegger
• Chapter 4. Paving the Way to the later Heidegger Second Preliminary Conclusion: The Student's Turn Against the Master Part III: The Problems with Gadamer's Translation
• Chapter 5. The Dossier of the Gadamer-Derrida Encounter Revisited
• Chapter 6. Gadamer Critic of Derrida. Derrida Critic of Gadamer Final Conclusion: To the Thresholds of Hermeneutic Theory.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer is depicted as a paradoxical figure in the literature. When Gadamer's work is approached by itself, outside the history of hermeneutics, he is generally presented as the disciple of Martin Heidegger, whose main theoretical contribution lies in having transposed his ontological hermeneutics into the sphere of the human sciences. Usually the master-student relation ends with a break between the two brought about by the student's desire to become herself a master. In Gadamer and Heidegger's case, scholarship has always excluded the possibility of such a symbolic parricide. However, when Gadamer's work is approached from the history of hermeneutics, he, not Heidegger, is revered as the central figure of hermeneutic theory in the twentieth century, and scholars perceive the works of the latter-together with those of his immediate forerunners Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey-as mere preambles to the great hermeneutic theory proposed by Truth and Method, and the works of those following him as footnotes to it. Gadamer and the Question of Understanding: Between Heidegger and Derrida dismantles this paradox by showing, on the one hand, that Gadamer's translation of Heidegger involved, as he himself says, a series of "essential alterations" to the original which make philosophical hermeneutics a more coherent and better articulated hermeneutic theory, one offering a more faithful description of the phenomenon of understanding than Heidegger's. And, on the other hand, by taking the dossier of the famous encounter between Gadamer and Derrida as its cue, Adrian Costache demonstrates that in light of Derrida's deconstruction, every step Gadamer takes forward from Heidegger as well as from Schleiermacher and Dilthey-however necessary--is problematic in itself. The insights in this book will be valuable to students and scholars interested in modern and contemporary European philosophy, especially those focusing on philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction, as well as those working in social sciences that have incorporated a hermeneutic approach to their investigations, such as pedagogy, sociology, psychotherapy, law, and nursing.
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• The ethics of deconstruction: the argument
• The problem of closure in Derrida
• Clotural readings I: 'Bois', Derrida's final word on Levinas
• Clotural readings II: wholly otherwise: Levinas' reading of Derrida
• A question of politics: the future of deconstruction
• Appendixes : The ethics of deconstruction: an attempt at self-criticism
• Habermas and Derrida get married
• Emmanuel Levinas
• Derrida: the reader
• Leaving the climate of Heidegger's thinking
• Five problems in Levinas' view of politics and the sketch of a solution to them.

This is an expanded edition of the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work. Simon Critchley's first book, The Ethics of Deconstruction, was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. It was the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work and to show as powerfully as possible how deconstruction has persuasive ethical consequences that are vital to our thinking through of questions of politics and democracy. This new edition contains three new appendices and a new preface where Critchley reflects upon the origins, motivation and reception of The Ethics of Deconstruction.
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• Introduction / Harold Schweizer and Michael Payne
• Double Mourning and the Public Sphere
• Women and Allegory
• An Interview with Barbara Johnson
• Barbara Johnson: A Bibliography, 1973-1993

This work asks whether deconstruction is dead - or whether it was just never alive. The heart of the problem, suggests Johnson, is the determination of feminist and other politically engaged writers to assert the disabling consequences for activism that deconstructive reading promotes

• 1. From Language to Law, an Opening onto Judgment: Saussure, Kafka, Derrida
• 2. The Political Limit of Logic and the Promise of Democracy: Kant, Hegal, Derrida
• 3. Aporia of Time. Aporia of Law: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida Conclusion.
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Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential, controversial and complex thinkers of our time, has come to be at the centre of many political debates. This is the first book to consider the political implications of Derrida's deconstruction. It is a timely response both to Derrida's own recent shift towards thinking about the political, and to the political focus of contemparary Continental philosophy. Richard Beardsworth's study, Derrida and the Political, locates a way of thinking about deconstruction using the tools of political philosophy. Richard Beardsworth has provided students of philosophy, politics and critical theory with a thought-provoking, upper level introduction to Derrida'a work as a political theorist.
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• 1. Doublings
• 2. Flight of Spirit
• 3. The Question of Origin
• 4. The Truth That Is Not of Knowledge
• 5. Interrupting Truth
• 6. Deformatives: Essentially Other Than Truth
• 7. Spacing Imagination
• 8. Intentionality and Imagination
• 9. The Truth of Tragedy
• 10. Mimesis and the End of Art
• 11. The Place of Wonder.

This is an anthology of deconstructive writings on the doubly difficult theme of truth by the foremost American philosopher of postmodernity.

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Biographical chronology
• Introduction
• 1. The future of the profession, or the university without condition (thanks to the 'humanities', What Could Happen tomorrow) Jacques Derrida
• 2. Derrida's literatures J. Hillis Miller
• 3. The other sexual difference Peggy Kamuf
• 4. Lemming: re-framing the Abyss David Wills
• 5. Mimesis, presentation, and representation Marian Hobson
• 6. Acts of engagement (philosophy in the performative) Chris Fynsk
• 7. Hospitable thought Hent de Vries
• 8. Derrida and politics Geoff Bennington
• 9. Legitimate fictions Margaret Davies
• 10. Fidelity at the limits of deconstruction and the prosthesis of faith Bernard Stiegler
• 11. Wondering about history: some questions Derrida pursues in his early writings Peter Fenves
• 12. Desistantial psychoanalysis Rene Major
• Glossary David Wills.
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The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of a range of disciplines in the humanities through its questioning of some of the basic tenets of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work; the assembled contributions - on law, literature, ethics, history, gender, politics and psychoanalysis, among others - constitute an investigation of the role of Derrida's work within the field of humanities, present and future. The volume is distinguished by work on some of his most recent writings, and contains Derrida's own address on 'the future of the humanities'. In addition to its pedagogic interest, this collection of essays attempts to respond to the question: what might be the relation of Derrida, or 'deconstruction' to the future of the humanities? The volume presents the most sustained examples yet of what deconstruction is in its current phase - as well as what its possible future may be.
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• Introduction / Hugh J. Silverman
• Deconstruction and criticism : preliminary remarks / Gary E. Aylesworth
• The choice of deconstruction / Christopher Fynsk
• Is deconstruction an alternative? / Kathryn Kinczewski
• Does deconstruction make any difference? / Michael Fischer
• Deconstruction and philosophy : preliminary remarks / Gary E. Aylesworth
• Ending-closure : on Derrida's margining of Heidegger / Eugenio Donato
• The possiblity of literary deconstruction : a reply to Eugenio Donato / David Wood
• Derrida and Heidegger : the interlacing of texts / Tina Chanter
• Philosophy and criticism : preliminary remarks / Gary E. Aylesworth
• The différance between Derrida and de Man / Irene E. Harvey
• Phenomenality and materiality in Kant / Paul de Man
• On mere sight : a response to Paul de Man / Rodolphe Gasché
• The rhetoric and practice of deconstruction : preliminary remarks / Gary E. Aylesworth
• Paul de Man and the subject of literary history / Gregory S. Jay
• Recovering the figure of J.L. Austin in Paul de Man's Allegories of reading / Brian G. Caraher
• The anxiety of American deconstruction / Howard Felperin
• Deconstructing translation : preliminary remarks / Gary E. Aylesworth
• Around and about Babel / Joseph F. Graham
• The différance of translation / David B. Allison
• Lations, cor, trans, re, &c. / John P. Leavey, Jr.
• Alternatives to deconstruction : preliminary remarks / Gary E. Aylesworth
• Derrida's epistemology / Antony Easthope
• The critical difference : Adorno's aesthetic alternative / Wilhelm S. Wurzer
• Poststructuralist alternatives to deconstruction / Arnaud Villani.

• The translation of deconstruction
• Unbuilding architecture
• The slippery art of space
• The domestication of the house
• Throwing up architecture
• Doing the twist
• Dislocating space.

"The many ever unexpected twists and turns of the dancing deconstructivist...give the book its meaning. It is the 'insistent indirectness' of the argument which is impresive. The current architectural discourse is not so much rejuvenated by it, as rediscovered in all its magnitude and profundity... the ethical and political engagement of this text is never far to seek. Experiencing this intoxicating dance is a real delight, and that in itself vouches for its merit. This text is warmly recommended to architects, philosophers and to everyone else." -- Geert Bekaert, "Archis Magazine" Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture -- architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction. He tracks the tacit argument about architecture embedded within Jacques Derrida's discourse, a curious line of argument that passes through each of the philosopher's texts, provocatively turning Derrida's reading strategy back on his texts to expose the architectural dimension of their central notions like law, economy, writing, place, domestication, translation, spacing, laughter, and dance.
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Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. In this book Wigley redefines the question of deconstruction and architecture. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, he opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction, offering a way of rethinking the institution of architecture while using architecture to rethink deconstructive discourse. Wigley relentlessly tracks the tacit argument about architecture embedded with Jacques Derrida's discourse, a line of argument that passes through each of the philosopher's texts. He argues that this seemingly tenuous thread actually binds those texts, acting as their source of strength but also their point of greatest weakness. Derrida's work is seen to render architecture at once more complex, uncanny, pervasive, unstable, brutal, enigmatic, and devious, if not insidious, while needing itself to be subjected to an architectural interrogation. Wigley turns Derrida's reading strategy back on his texts to expose the architectural dimension of their central notions like law, economy, writing, place, domestication, translation, vomit, spacing laughter, and dance. Along the way he highlights new aspects of the relationship between Heidegger and Derrida, explores the structural role of ornament and the architecture of haunting, while presenting a fascinating account of the institutional politics of architecture.
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• Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Animal Question in Deconstruction;
• Chapter 1 A Refugee;
• Chapter 2 Swans of Life (External Provocations and Autobiographical Flights That Teach Us How to Read);
• Chapter 3 Love of the Löwe;
• Chapter 4 Insect Asides;
• Chapter 5 Sponge Inc;
• Chapter 6 Elephant Eulogy: The Exorbitant Orb of an Elephant;
• Chapter 7 Troubling Resemblances, Anthropological Machines and the Fear of Wild Animals: Following Derrida after Agamben.

• Chapter 8 Derrida, Rousseau, Cixous and Tsvetaeva: Sexual Difference and the Love of the Wolf
• Chapter 9 Deconstructing Sexual Difference: A Myopic Reading of Hélène Cixous's Mole;
• Chapter 10 Your Worm;
• Chapter 11 Mole; Index.

Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. This textbook reveals how thinkers on deconstruction, including Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous and Nicholas Royle, have consistently addressed questions about animality.
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• Reflecting on the occasions of introduction : justifying the unjustifiable or, beginning again
• Uncanny temporalities, haunting occasions : Sunset boulevard
• Biography's ruins : the afterlife of Mary Shelley
• Between : speculations
• Eternity and a day or, an "Endless forward" : Tout dire
• Citation's haunt : spectres of Derrida
• Occasions of trauma and testimony : witnessing, memory, and responsibility
• Origins of deconstruction : deconstruction, that which arrives (if it arrives at all)
• Hauntology or the political? : (or, no politics, not now) : always already deceived
• Letter to Martin McQuillan, concerning "the New International" : the indelible Marx of haunting
• Guilty reading.

"In Occasional Deconstructions, Julian Wolfreys challenges the notion that deconstruction is a critical methodology, offering instead a number of reintroductions or reorientations to the texts of Jacques Derrida and the idea or possibility of deconstructions. Proceeding from specific readings of various texts (both film and literary), as well as mobilizing a number of issues from Derrida's recent work surrounding questions of ethics, politics, and identity, Wolfreys considers the role of deconstruction in broader academic and institutional contexts, and questions whether, in fact, deconstruction can be called upon to function as theory at all."--Jacket