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Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice
D. Cornell
Routledge, 1992
The purpose of this volume is to rethink the questions posed by Derrida's writings and his unique philosophical positioning, without reference to the catch phrases that have supposedly summed up deconstruction.
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Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) 12 reviews
John Caputo
Fordham University Press, 1996
A very welcome nutshell indeed....
....for Derrida is not easy reading. This fine book takes some of his best concepts and explains them in a clear and witty style. Highly recommended starting point for the beginner to deconstructionist thought.
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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism10 reviews
Jonathan Culler
Cornell University Press, 2007
Still excellent
Responding to an earlier review:
"Has anyone else noticed that Culler's recent book (2003) on deconstruction simply recycles what he says in this book from 1983? Culler hasn't learned a whit more about deconstruction in the past 20 years. Yes, he's better than Christopher Norris on deconstruction, but then again so is my auto mechanic (I'm not kidding). Read Culler if you want to know what ...
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From the New Criticism to Deconstruction: The Reception of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism2 reviews
Art Berman
University of Illinois Press, 1988
Making Sense of American Theory
This book is a thorough account of the academic and philosophical arguments that have influenced the reception of French theory in America. The basic premise is that American academics are still tainted by British empiricism and skeptical of Continental philosophy. This fact has produced a distinct American strain of Deconstruction and Post-Structuralism. The review above faults Berman for his ...
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Deconstruction And Criticism (Question What You Thought Before)
Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey H. Hartman, ...
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005
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Deconstruction: Theory and Practice (New Accents) 3 reviews
Christopher Norris
Routledge, 2002
Great Summary
While you won't fully understand what is going on in deconstructionism after reading this book, you'll probably be closer than most. Deconstructionism is probably the most misunderstood "thing" around. Norris provides an incredibly fair and balanced presentation of the basic issues and main misreadings of the people involved. If you want a basic overview of what is going on that doesn't ...
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Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental ...
State University of New York Press, 1989
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Deconstruction For Beginners2 reviews
Jim Powell
For Beginners, 2008
Deconstruction for Globetrotters
This book offers something for readers who know nothing of deconstruction, but also something for those who have read a lot about it. I have read a lot of books on deconstruction, but this is the only one that shows how deconstruction has worked in different cultures--notably, China and India. Besides, it is irreverent and hilarious, at one point inserting some Derridean quotes on ethics into ...
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Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man 5 reviews
David Lehman
Poseidon Pr, 1992
A Genuine Classic That Never Should Have Left Print
"Signs of the Times" is one of those very rare books that can actually change your life by altering your consciousness about perception and reality. It's a fascinating, riveting and funny account of how Yale University deconstruction guru Paul De Man was exposed after his death as an anti-Semite and Nazi collaborator in Belgium during World War II. It does something unusual and extremely ...
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Deconstruction and Pragmatism1 review
Simon Critchley
Routledge, 1996
I'm sentimental and I believe in happiness
What I want to say I am certain I will not achieve in the space of an online review. That being said, I think this work was important because in it Derrida admits with qualification to Rorty's charges that he (Derrida) is sentimental and believes in happiness. This may come as a shock to some Derrideans. Those who use Derrida's writings and reception to shake and destroy are missing the ...
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Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (Critical Concepts)1 review
J. Culler
Routledge, 2002
A reader is confused
This is not a book by Jonathan Culler but a four volume collection of the most important essays of and about deconstruction by a wide range of thinkers, primarily French, American, and British, dealing with politics, ethics, literature, religion, architecture, etc.
The reader's animus is misdirected.
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Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip5 reviews
Andrew Boyd
W. W. Norton & Company, 1998
True to Form and Content
I never truly understood post-modernism until I read this book. In college, I read some of the post-Modernist thinkers, but somehow through humor and concise sayings, Andrew Boyd has distilled the essence of post-modernist thought. I've given it as a gift to some of my academic friends --and its the instant hit. I've been in a number of settings where people read them aloud and laugh and ...
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Against Deconstruction11 reviews
John Martin Ellis
Princeton University Press, 1990
The Emperor of Deconstruction Has No Clothes
John Ellis has spent a long and distinguished career debunking what he saw as trendy, illogical, and just plain faulty theories of literary criticism. For him, if any theory purports to explain the relation that a text has with its readers, that theory should be able to withstand a rigorous dissection by those who are more interested in truth and logic than in following the crowd. In AGAINST ...
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Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1989
This volume represents the first sustained effort to relate Derrida's work to the Western philosophical tradition from Plato to Heidegger. Bringing together twelve essays by twelve leading Derridean philosophers and an important paper by Derrida previously unpublished in English, the collection retrieves the significance of deconstruction for philosophy.
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Deconstruction - Derrida (Transitions)1 review
Julian Wolfreys
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998
among the best books on derrida
i am typing this with one hand with my eight month old daughter asleep on my lap so excuse the brevity. i just want to say that i have read a number of books by and about derrida and i think that this is one of the two or three best. i am a college english instructor and found the chapter on conrad's heart of darkness especially helpful for thinking about deconstruction and texts. get this ...
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook To Derrida on Deconstruction (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks)
Barry Stocker
Routledge, 2006
Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida on Deconstruction introduces and assesses: * Derrida's life and the background to his philosophy * the key themes of the critique of metaphysics, language and ethics that characterize his most widely read works * the continuing importance of Derrida's work to philosophy. This is a much-needed introduction for philosophy or humanities ...
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Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History
Palgrave Macmillan, 1999
Ghosts exist as a means of expressing our concerns for life and death, the passing of time, and the conscious and unconscious minds. The powerful metaphor of haunting has been used as an intellectual tool by writers and thinkers such as Marx, Freud, and Derrida in the fields of politics, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Ghosts is the first collection of theoretical essays that interrogates these ghosts, employing a variety of theoretical ...
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Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory1 review
Christopher Norris
Wiley-Blackwell, 1997
Deconstructionist deconstruction
Christopher Norris, once called "a prominent second rung deconstructionist..." by Roger Kimball, is nevertheless, among writers allied to the postmodern movement, more critical than most. This book is not an easy read for the author has the habit of alluding to rather than explaining the views he argues for and against. Norris has mastered a large corpus of postmodern work, genuinely striving to ...
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Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (Continental Philosophy, No. 6)
Hugh Silverman
Routledge, 1994
Textualities is both an account of recent developments in Continental philosophy and a demonstration of philosophy as a distinctive theoretical practice of its own. It can be read as a presentation and evaluation of major figures from Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty to Focault and Derrida with detailed acconts of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Blanchot and Kristeva.
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Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction: Loss, Eternity and the Productions of Time in the Later ...
Peter Otto
Oxford University Press, USA, 1991
Focusing on the tension in Blake's poetry between doubt and belief, this book offers a new account of the way Blake's major prophecies work and of the strategies they employ. Offering a radically new reading of Milton and Jerusalem, Otto argues that the autonomous, world-forming imagination is subject to visionary deconstruction. He demonstrates that rather than subordinating existence to perception, the poems attempt to induce their readers to ...
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