Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentienth-century literary theory. The school of 'deconstruction' that has grown out of his work has been either absorbed into the corpus of modern literary theory, or criticized for its departures from the original texts of Derrida in whose name it is practised. Timothy Clark's innovative book traces instead sources of Derrida's practice of 'literature' as a form of philosophical thinking, in the work of Heidegger and Blanchot. It offers a welcome stylistic clarity in a field beleaguered by its philosophical and linguistic difficulty. Clark gives close readings of key texts including Heidegger's Conversation on a Country Path, Blanchot's L'attente l'oubli, and Derrida's Pas and Signsponge, and widens the scope of his discussion of philosophical cultivation of 'literary' forms to include in addition the issues of creativity, influence and responsibility as they appear in the work of Lyotard and Levinas.
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Preface; Introduction; 1. Overcoming aesthetics, Heideggerian Dichtung; 2. Blanchot: the literary space; 3. Derrida and the literary; 4. The event of signature: a 'science of the singular?'
This book considers Derrida's reading of literature as a form of philosophical thinking.

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ISBN
9780521405393
Publisert
1992-07-31
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Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
425 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
236

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