Critical excess [[electronic resource] ] : overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell / / Colin Davis

• Autore: Davis Colin <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 801/.95
• Soggetto topico: Criticism; Literature - Philosophy; Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature -- 2 Derrida, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction -- 3 Deleuze: Against Interpretation -- 4 Levinas and the Resistance to Reading -- 5 Žižek’s Idiotic Enjoyment -- 6 Cavell and the Claim of Reading -- 7 Conclusion: In Praise of Overreading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek, and Stanley Cavell. Their approaches are very different from one another, but they each make unexpected interpretive leaps that render their readings exhilarating and unnerving. But do they go too far? Does a scribbled note left behind by Nietzsche really tell us about the nature of textuality? Can Hitchcock truly tell you "everything you always wanted to know about Lacan"? Does the blanket hung up in a motel room invoke the Kantian divide between the knowable phenomenal world and the unknowable things in themselves? Contextualizing the work of the five thinkers in the intellectual debates to which they contribute, this book analyzes the stakes and advantages of "overreading."
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical excess
• ISBN: 0-8047-7430-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816415103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II