Reading and Responsibility : : Deconstruction's Traces / / Derek Attridge.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Attridge, Derek,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades and reflects an interest in that work going back a further two decades, shows how that work can illuminate a variety of topics.Chapters include an overview of deconstruction as a critical practice today, discussions of the secret, postcolonialism, ethics, literary criticism, jargon, fiction, and photography, and responses to the theoretical writing of Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes, and J. Hillis Miller. Also included is a discussion of the recent reading of Derrida's philosophy as 'radical atheism', and the book ends with a conversation on deconstruction and place with the theorist and critic Jean-Michel Rabaté.Running throughout is a concern with the question of responsibility, as exemplified in Derrida's own readings of literary and philosophical texts: responsibility to the work being read, responsibility to the protocols of rational argument, and responsibility to the reader.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary Criticism -- Chapter 2 Deconstruction Today: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Secret -- Chapter 3 Following Derrida -- Chapter 4 The Impossibility of Ethics: On Mount Moriah -- Chapter 5 Arche- jargon -- Chapter 6 Deconstruction and Fiction -- Chapter 7 Posthumous Infidelity: Derrida, Levinas and the Third -- Chapter 8 Roland Barthes’s Obtuse, Sharp Meaning and the Responsibilities of Commentary -- Chapter 9 Nothing to Declare: J. Hillis Miller and Zero’s Paradox -- Chapter 10 Radical Atheism and Unconditional Responsibility -- Chapter 11 The Place of Deconstruction: A Conversation with Jean- Michel Rabaté -- Bibliography -- Index