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Deconstruction is/in America
Anselm Haverkamp
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Description for Deconstruction is/in America
Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive?
To address these questions, this volume brings together some of the most provocative thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Avital Ronnel. Ranging across a wide field, from the ethics of reading to the rhetoric of performance, the contributors offer provocative insights into a new sense of the political. The America of the volume's title turns out to be the place where the politics and poetics of responsibility meet. It is also the place ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814735190
SKU
V9780814735190
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About Anselm Haverkamp
Anselm Haverkamp is Professor of English and Director of the Poetics Institute at New York University.
Reviews for Deconstruction is/in America
Deconstruction is not like foreign imports now 'made in America' but claims a more original relation to American literary and critical thought. These essays, which include a fascinating deconstructive analysis of a recent Supreme Court decision on hate speech, are engaging and provocative dispatches from practitioners of this controversial movement, and take up crucial issues in architecture, law, feminism, philosophy ... Read more