Deconstruction Is/In America : : A New Sense of the Political / / H. R. Dodge, Anselm Haverkamp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Haverkamp, Anselm,; Dodge, H. R.,
• MitwirkendeR: Attridge, Derek,; Beaujour, Michel,; Butler, Judith,; Chase, Cynthia,; Culler, Jonathan,; Derrida, Jacques,; Eisenman, Peter,; Gasché, Rodolphe,; Haverkamp, Anselm,; Kamuf, Peggy,; Meisel, Perry,; Miller, J. Hillis,; Ronell, Avital,; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty,; Vinken, Barbara,; Weber, Elisabeth,; Weber, Samuel,; Wills, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 Butle...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Deconstruction is/as Neopragmatism?
• The Time is Out of Joint
• I. The Time of Analysis
• 1. Deconstruction and the Lyric
• 2. Reading Epitaphs
• 3. Upping the Ante: Deconstruction as Parodic Practice
• II. The Point of Teaching
• 4. The Disputed Ground: Deconstruction and Literary Studies
• 5. Une drôle de classe de philo
• 6. Going Public: The University in Deconstruction
• III. The Politics of Singularity
• 7. Possibilizations, in the Singular
• 8. Writing Resistances
• 9. Presentness and the "Being-Only-Once" of Architecture
• IV. The Performance of Difference
• 10. Burning Acts: Injurious Speech
• 11. Republic, Rhetoric, and Sexual Difference
• 12. The Test Drive
• V. A New Sense of the Political
• 13. Ghost Writing
• 14. The Form of Politics
• 15. At the Planchette of Deconstruction is/in America
• 16. Jaded in America