Deconstruction Reading Politics

by Martin McQuillan

Overview

This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters explored in this volume, dispelling the notion of a separation of deconstruction from the everyday.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230536951
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/14/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

FRED BOTTING Professor and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research at the University of Lancaster, UK ELEANOR BYRNE Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. UK THOMAS DOCHERTY Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK DIANE ELAM Former Professor of English Literature and Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, Wales ANDREW GIBSON Professor of Modern Literature and Theory in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK JOHN HIGGINS Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa PEGGY KAMUF Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, USA JOHN LEAVEY, JR., Chair of the English Department at the University of Florida, USA WILLY MALEY Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK J. HILLIS MILLER Distinguished Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA NICHOLAS ROYLE Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK SCOTT WILSON Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of Lancaster, UK

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Epigraph: Deconstruction Reading Politics ; J.Higgins Introduction: 'Three Colours'; M.McQuillan Eternity and a Day, or, an 'endless foreword': Tout dire ; J.Wolfreys The First Time Somewhere Twice: Antonomasia on (the) Pain of Extinction; J.Leavey Jr Deconstruction not reading politics; T.Docherty Night Writing; N.Royle Will Literary Study Survive the Globalization of the University and the New Regime of Telecommunications?; J.Hillis Miller Democracy's Fiction: Everything, Anything, and Nothing at All; P.Kamuf The Injustice of Truth: Notes Toward a Feminist Politics; D.Elam Unpacking Homi Bhabha's Library: The Postcolonial Archive; E.Byrne Badiou and Deconstruction: The Politics of Reading Beckett; A.Gibson Raymond Williams and Deconstruction; J.Higgins À propos of Marx, Attribute to Derrida: A Note on a Note in Margins of Philosophy ; W.Maley Homoeconopoeisis II: Presents, Technology, Enjoyment; F.Botting & S.Wilson Notes Index