Understanding Derrida, understanding modernism
"This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a "modern" notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida's affinities …
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- Full title :Understanding Derrida, understanding modernism / edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté.
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"This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a "modern" notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida's affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy"--
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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 314 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781501331862, 1501331868
- oclc:on1110676147
- LC Classification:B2430.D484
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
Introduction : Derrida's modernity and our modernism / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Trickster economy : Derrida's Baudelaire, and the role of money, counterfeits, and alms in the modern city / Marit Grøtta -- Kant's celestial economy : a footnote to The Gift of Death / Eddis N. Miller -- Derrida and Kafka : a Talmudic disputation before the law / Vivian Liska -- Derrida with Heidegger : poetic language, animality, world / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei -- To wound the language : Derrida reads Celan / Miriam Jerade -- Derrida's Joyce / Sam Slote -- Derrida revoicing Artaud / Alhelí Alvarado-Díaz -- Derrida on Bataille : from dueling to duet / Claire Lozier -- A cross in the margin : inscription and erasure in Derrida and pound / Mark Byron -- Derrida after Valéry (after Derrida) / Suzanne Guerlac -- Three ways of looking at Derrida's encounter with Austin / Raoul Moati -- Writing in the shadow of Sartre's Genet : Derrida's Glas and the ethics of biography / Robert Doran -- Derrida, Cixous, and (feminine) writing / Marta Segarra -- Reading between the lines : Derrida, Blanchot, Beckett / Leslie Hill.
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