Strategies of deconstruction : Derrida and the myth of the voice / J. Claude Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Joseph Claude.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Deconstruction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Strategies of Deconstruction was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In the past two decades, the "movement" of deconstruction has bad tremendous impact on a number of academic, disciplines in the United States. However, its force has been rather limited in the field of philosophy, despite the fact that in Europe the practice of deconstruction emerged in the work of philosophers. Although the reasons for this can be debated, two of the more obvious explanations are the mainstream Anglo-American philosophers rarely studied the German and French philosophical traditions in great detail, and deconstruction's focus on discourse and interpretation has made it more attractive to the literary and humanistic disciplines. With this context, Strategies of Deconstruction focuses on the early work of Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher who introduced deconstruction in Speech and Phenomena ,his study of Edmund Husserl, and Of Grammatology , and whose philosophical reputation stems in no small part from his work on Husserl. In examining the philosophical import of Derrida's theories of reading, text, and language, specifically as they related to Speech and Phenomena ,J. Claude Evans makes careful reference to Husserl's own texts. His analysis indicates that there are many systematic irregularities in Derrida's study and that without those irregularities Derrida's conclusions cannot be substantiated.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. Husserl and the Philosophy of Presence: Speech and Phenomena

1. Speech and Phenomena: The Introduction

2. "Sign and Signs

3. "The Reduction of Indication

4. "Wanting-to-Say as Soliloquy

5. "Wanting-to-Say and Representation

6. "Signs and the Blink of an Eye

7. "The Voice That Keeps Silence''

8. "The Supplement of Origin

Part II. The Myth of Phonocentrism: Of Grammatology

9. Aristotle

10. Saussure

Conclusion: The Rigor and Ethics of Reading

Signature

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8370-0

0-8166-1926-3

OCLC:

560399907