Deconstruction : Theory and Practice

by Norris, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780203426760
• ISBN10: 0203426762
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134465323
• Edition: 3rd
• Copyright: 2002-05-23
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

While in no way oversimplifying its complexity or glossing over the challenges it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessible to the open-minded reader.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Roots: structuralism and New Criticism	p. 1
From Kant to Saussure: the prison-house of concepts	p. 4
New Critic into structuralist?	p. 7
Roland Barthes	p. 8
Beyond New Criticism	p. 15
Jacques Derrida: language against itself	p. 18
Blindness and Insight: deconstructing the New Criticism	p. 22
Language, writing, differance	p. 24
Culture, nature, writing: Rousseau and Levi-Strauss	p. 32
From voice to text: Derrida's critique of philosophy	p. 41
Phenomenology and/or structuralism?	p. 47
Nietzsche: philosophy and deconstruction	p. 55
Nietzsche, Plato and the sophists	p. 59
Deconstruction on two wheels	p. 60
Writing and philosophy	p. 63
Beyond interpretation?	p. 66
Nietzsche and Heidegger	p. 67
Nietzsche's umbrella	p. 69
Between Marx and Nietzsche: the politics of deconstruction	p. 73
Derrida on Hegel	p. 74
Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction	p. 77
Nietzsche contra Marx?	p. 82
Foucault and Said: the rhetoric of power	p. 84
The American connection	p. 89
Deconstruction 'on the wild side': Geoffrey Hartman and J. Hillis Miller	p. 91
Paul de Man: rhetoric and reason	p. 99
Deconstruction at the limit?	p. 104
'Ordinary language': the challenge from Austin	p. 107
Harold Bloom	p. 114
Derrida and Bloom on Freud	p. 121
Conclusion: dissenting voices	p. 124
Wittgenstein: language and scepticism	p. 127
Afterword (1991): further thoughts on deconstruction, postmodernism and the politics of theory	p. 134
Postscript to the third (2002) edition	p. 156
Notes for further reading (1982)	p. 179
Bibliography (including works cited)	p. 190
Index	p. 225
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