Thinking Difference : : Critics in Conversation / / Julian Wolfreys.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Wolfreys, Julian,
• MitwirkendeR: Attridge, Derek,; Caputo, John D.,; Caws, Mary Ann,; Culler, Jonathan,; Hamacher, Werner,; Hart, Kevin,; Kamuf, Peggy,; Leavey Jr., John P.,; Miller, J. Hillis,; Plotnitsky, Arkady,; Ronell, Avital,; Royle, Nicholas,; Ulmer, Gregory L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (199 p.)

"Difference" has been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy. In projects ranging from deconstructive readings of canonical texts to a radical rethinking of the sacred, "difference" has been the node around which theorists have explored questions of conflict, power, identity, meaning, and knowledge itself in postmodern culture. At this point, what difference does "difference" make? In this imaginatively conceived book, Julian Wolfreys talks to thirteen leading scholars about the place of "difference" in their own work, in their own fields, and in their teaching. How has intellectual engagement with difference-its celebration of otherness and opposition, whether in a work of art or in world politics-shaped teaching, reading, and writing in today's colleges and universities? And at a time when identity politics and cultural critique have been institutionalized by the academy, has "difference" been domesticated? Personal and revealing, these conversations come together as a kind of collective self-portrait of the humanities at one of its important junctures. Thinking Difference offers provocative reflections on what ideas and practices will drive the next generation of critical thinking. Here are original conversations on the career of a key concept with: Nicholas Royle, Derek Attridge, Peggy Kamuf, Avital Ronell, Arkady Plotnitsky, John P. Leavey, Jr., Mary Ann Caws, Jonathan Culler, Gregory L. Ulmer, J. Hillis Miller, John D. Caputo, Kevin Hart, and Werner Hamacher

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Beginning Is Haunted: Teaching and the Uncanny -- 2 Encountering the Other in the Classroom -- 3 Symptoms of Response -- 4 Confessions of an Anacoluthon: On Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, and Politics -- 5 Difference beyond Difference -- 6 Q&A: Whims, Whim-Whams, Whimsies, and the "Responsiveble" Interview -- 7 Thinking about This ... -- 8 Resisting Resistance -- 9 Going to University with Socrates -- 10 In Praise of Devilish Hermeneutics -- 11 A-mail: Differential Imaging -- 12 The Degree Zero of Criticism -- 13 To Leave the Word to Someone Else -- Contributors -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index