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Record Nr.

UNISA996588062703316

Autore

Haverkamp Anselm

Titolo

Deconstruction Is/In America : A New Sense of the Political / / Anselm Haverkamp, H. R. Dodge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

0-8147-4477-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

810.9358

Soggetti

Deconstruction - Congresses

Criticism - Congresses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chiefly based on papers presented at a conference in the fall of 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Deconstruction is/as Neopragmatism? -- The Time is Out of Joint -- 1. Deconstruction and the Lyric -- 2. Reading Epitaphs -- 3. Upping the Ante: Deconstruction as Parodic Practice -- 4. The Disputed Ground: Deconstruction and Literary Studies -- 5. Une drôle de classe de philo -- 6. Going Public: The University in Deconstruction -- 7. Possibilizations, in the Singular -- 8. Writing Resistances -- 9. Presentness and the "Being-Only-Once" of Architecture -- 10. Burning Acts: Injurious Speech -- 11. Republic, Rhetoric, and Sexual Difference -- 12. The Test Drive -- 13. Ghost Writing -- 14. The Form of Politics -- 15. At the Planchette of Deconstruction is/in America -- 16. Jaded in America

Sommario/riassunto

What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive? To address these questions, this volume brings together some of the most provocative thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Avital Ronnel. Ranging across a wide field, from the ethics of reading to the rhetoric of performance, the contributors offer provocative insights into a new sense of the political. The America of the volume's title turns out to be the place where the



politics and poetics of responsibility meet. It is also the place where we confront the tension between difference and profound otherness.