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- Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the Political
- Book
- 1995
- Published by: NYU Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Contributors
- pp. ix-xi
- The Time is Out of Joint
- pp. 14-38
- I. The Time of Analysis
- pp. 39-75
- 1. Deconstruction and the Lyric
- pp. 41-51
- 2. Reading Epitaphs
- pp. 52-59
- II. The Point of Teaching
- pp. 77-111
- 5. Une drĂ´le de classe de philo
- pp. 87-94
- III. The Politics of Singularity
- pp. 113-145
- 7. Possibilizations, in the Singular
- pp. 115-124
- 8. Writing Resistances
- pp. 125-133
- IV. The Performance of Difference
- pp. 147-220
- 10. Burning Acts: Injurious Speech
- pp. 149-180
- 12. The Test Drive
- pp. 200-220
- V. A New Sense of the Political
- pp. 221-262
- 13. Ghost Writing
- pp. 223-227
- 14. The Form of Politics
- pp. 228-236
- 16. Jaded in America
- pp. 250-262
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814744772
Related ISBN(s)
9780814735183
MARC Record
OCLC
859686243
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-25
Language
English
Open Access
Yes