Deconstructions : a user's guide / edited by Nicholas Royle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Royle, Nicholas, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstruction.

Physical Description:

xi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2000.

Summary:

"Deconstructions" is a user's guide to deconstruction across a range of topics and discourses. Chapter topics range from the obvious (feminism, post-colonialism, and technology) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving). Yet each of the essays has more than one focus, exploring or opening on to further and other deconstructions. The book has been put together to demonstrate the multiple and altering contexts in which deconstructive thinking and practice are at work, both within and beyond the academy, both within and beyond what is called "the West." Nicholas Royle has commissioned new essays by some of the most distinguished contemporary thinkers, including Geoffrey Bennington, Diane Elam, J. Hillis Miller, and Jacques Derrida.

Contents:

1 What is Deconstruction? / Nicholas Royle 1

2 Deconstruction and Cultural Studies: Arguments for a Deconstructive Cultural Studies / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 14

3 Deconstruction and Drugs: A Philosophical/Literary Cocktail / David Boothroyd 44

4 Deconstruction and Ethics / Geoffrey Bennington 64

5 Deconstruction and Feminism / Diane Elam 83

6 Deconstruction and Fiction / Derek Attridge 105

7 Deconstruction and Film / Robert Smith 119

8 Deconstruction and Hermeneutics / Rodolphe Gasche 137

9 Deconstruction and Love / Peggy Kamuf 151

10 Deconstruction and a Poem / J. Hillis Miller 171

11 Deconstruction and the Postcolonial / Robert J. C. Young 187

12 Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis / Maud Ellmann 211

13 Deconstruction and Technology / Timothy Clark 238

14 Deconstruction and Weaving / Caroline Rooney 258

15 Et Cetera / Jacques Derrida 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333717600

0333717619

OCLC:

123281434