Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophy

by Mark C. Taylor

Overview

"There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of  day." – Jacques Derrida

"This invaluable philosophical sampler brings together many of the threads out of which deconstruction is woven. taylor's anthology does not make deconstruction easy; much more usefully, it provides a meticulous guide to the sources – and significance – of the difficulties. – Barbara E. Johnson

"The book will be of great value as a set of readings with authoritative explanation for all those interested in the current relations of literature and philosophy. It is the best book of its kind I know. – J. Hillis Miller, Yale University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226791401
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	10/15/1986
Series:	Literature and Philosophy
Edition description:	1
Pages:	454
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion at Columbia University and the Cluett Professor of Humanities emeritus at Williams College. He is the founding editor of the Religion and Postmodernism series published by the University of Chicago Press and is the author of over thirty books, including Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left and Abiding Grace: Time, Modernity, Death.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: System ... Structure ... Difference ... Other
Mark C. Taylor

Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant

Phenomenology of Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel

Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
Alexandre Kojéve

Phenomenology
Edmund Husserl

Course in General Linguisitcs
Ferdinand de Saussure

Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Soren Kierkegaard

The Will to Power
Freidrich Nietzsche

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense
Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking
Martin Heidegger

Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre

The Visible and the Invisible
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Trace of the Other
Emmanuel Levinas

The Notion of Expenditure
Georges Bataille

The Labyrinth
Georges Bataille

The Abscence of the Book
Maurice Blanchot

Différance
Jacques Derrida

Bibliography