Deconstruction reading politics / edited by Martin McQuillan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McQuillan, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstruction.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

This new collection of essays gathers together a collection of scholars to consider what happens when deconstruction reads politics. It engages with recent texts by Jacques Derrida and others on the political, and considers the long, often unacknowledged encounter between deconstruction and politics. The collection intervenes in current debates in the humanities around ethics, politics and history, staking a claim for the efficacy of a deconstructive reading strategy in the understanding of the political. It does not merely wish to apply deconstruction to the reading of political events but rather seeks to offer a radical re-reading of the political which would deconstruct the very assumptions upon which this category has been based. Conversely, deconstruction and reading are not left untouched by their encounter with the political. Deconstruction Reading Politics makes a marker for a mature deconstruction in which reading is an ethical and political engagement with the textuality of the social.

Contents:

The first time somewhere twice / John Leavey, Jr

Deconstruction not reading politics / Thomas Docherty

Night writing / Nicholas Royle

Will literary study survive the globalization of the university and the new regime of telecommunications? / J. Hillis Miller

Democracy's fiction / Peggy Kamuf

The injustice of truth / Diane Elam

Unpacking Homi Bhabha's library / Eleanor Byrne

Badiou and deconstruction / Andrew Gibson

Raymond Williams and deconstruction / John Higgins

À propos of Marx, attribute to Derrida / Willy Maley

Homoeconopoiesis II / Fred Botting, Scott Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221) and index.

ISBN:

0230536956

9780230536951

OCLC:

173299307

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