Deconstruction: Theory and Practice

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Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-08-09
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In this third, revised edition, Norris builds upon his 1991 afterword with an entirely new postscript, reflecting upon recent critical debate. The postscript includes an extensive list of recommended reading, complementing what was already one of the most useful bibliographies available.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Roots: structuralism and New Criticism
1(17)
From Kant to Saussure: the prison-house of concepts
4(3)
New Critic into structuralist?
7(1)
Roland Barthes
8(7)
Beyond New Criticism
15(3)
Jacques Derrida: language against itself
18(23)
Blindness and Insight: deconstructing the New Criticism
22(2)
Language, writing, differance
24(8)
Culture, nature, writing: Rousseau and Levi-Strauss
32(9)
From voice to text: Derrida's critique of philosophy
41(14)
Phenomenology and/or structuralism?
47(8)
Nietzsche: philosophy and deconstruction
55(18)
Nietzsche, Plato and the sophists
59(1)
Deconstruction on two wheels
60(3)
Writing and philosophy
63(3)
Beyond interpretation?
66(1)
Nietzsche and Heidegger
67(2)
Nietzsche's umbrella
69(4)
Between Marx and Nietzsche: the politics of deconstruction
73(16)
Derrida on Hegel
74(3)
Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction
77(5)
Nietzsche contra Marx?
82(2)
Foucault and Said: the rhetoric of power
84(5)
The American connection
89(35)
Deconstruction `on the wild side': Geoffrey Hartman and J. Hillis Miller
91(8)
Paul de Man: rhetoric and reason
99(5)
Deconstruction at the limit?
104(3)
`Ordinary language': the challenge from Austin
107(7)
Harold Bloom
114(7)
Derrida and Bloom on Freud
121(3)
Conclusion: dissenting voices
124(10)
Wittgenstein: language and scepticism
127(7)
Afterword (1991): further thoughts on deconstruction, postmodernism and the politics of theory 134(22)
Postscript to the Third (2002) edition 156(23)
Notes For Further Reading (1982) 179(11)
Bibliography (Including Works Cited) 190(35)
Index 225

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