Textualities

by Silverman,Hugh J.

• ISBN13: 9780415908191
• ISBN10: 0415908191
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-05-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Textualitiesis 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introductory Remarks	p. 1
Continental Philosophy and the Texture of Theory
From Hermeneutics to Deconstruction	p. 9
Semiotics and Hermeneutics	p. 22
Hermeneutics and Interrogation	p. 31
Interrogation and Deconstruction	p. 38
Toward a Theory of Textuality
Enframing the Work of Art	p. 49
Writing at the Edge of Metaphysics	p. 58
Textuality and Literary Theory	p. 70
The Language of Textuality	p. 80
Autobiographical Textualities
Autobiographical Textuality and Thoreau's Walden	p. 89
Traces of Autobiographical Textuality in Nietzsche's Ecce Homa	p. 103
The Time of Autobiography: Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques	p. 113
The Self-Inscriptions of Sartre and Barthes	p. 125
The Autobiographical Textuality of Heidegger's Shoes	p. 134
Visible/Scriptive Textualities
The Photobiographical Textuality of the Philosopher's Body: Sartre/Heidegger	p. 151
The Visibility of Self-Portraiture: Merleau-Ponty/Cezanne	p. 162
The Text of the Speaking Subject: Merleau-Ponty/Kristeva	p. 175
Writing on Writing: Merleau-Ponty/Derrida	p. 183
The Institution(s) of Philosophy as Textualities
On the University: Nietzsche/Schopenhauer	p. 195
On Philosophical Discourse: Merleau-Ponty/Blanchot	p. 204
On the Time of the Line: Derrida/Heidegger	p. 210
On the Origin(s) of History: Foucault/Derrida	p. 221
Philosophy Has Its Reasons...	p. 231
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 267
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