Theory Mess Deconstruction in Eclipse

Name: Theory Mess Deconstruction in Eclipse
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ISBN: 9780231121354

ISBN-10: 0231121350

ISBN-13: 9780231121354

Edition: 2001

Authors: Herman Rapaport

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Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Herman Rapaport is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Southampton. His books include Is There Truth in Art?and Between the Sign and the Gaze.



Preface


Introduction


Beginnings


Co-opting Deconstruction


Theory as Postphilosophy: Rosi Braidotti, Geoffrey Hartman, and Annette Kolodny


The Misconstruction of Deconstruction: Gerald Graff and FRank Lentricchia


Demonizing Deconstruction: Walter Jackson Bate, Rene Wellek, and David Lehman


America Is Deconstruction?


Non-Placet


A World Apart: Derrida and the Frankfurt School


1980-1987: A World of Difference


Deconstructing Otherwise: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak


British Developments: The Influence of Screen


Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions I


Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions II


Lurching to the Right


Social Acts and Excitable Speech


Vicious Dualisms


Deconstruction of the Social Relation I: Heidegger and Sex


Deconstruction of the Social Relation II: Derrida's Itineraries


Derrida and the Political


Reconceiving the Theory Mess


Postscript


Notes


Bibliography


Index