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Encountering Derrida Professor Simon Wortham (Kingston, University London, UK)

Encountering Derrida By Professor Simon Wortham (Kingston, University London, UK)

Encountering Derrida by Professor Simon Wortham (Kingston, University London, UK)

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Explores the points of engagement between Jacques Derrida and a host of other European thinkers in order to counter recent claims that the era of deconstruction is finally drawing to a close. This book rereads Derrida in order to renew deconstruction's various conceptions of language, poetry, philosophy, institutions, difference and the future.

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Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction by Professor Simon Wortham (Kingston, University London, UK)

Encountering Derrida explores the points of engagement between Jacques Derrida and a host of other European thinkers, past and present, in order to counter recent claims that the era of deconstruction is finally drawing to a close. The book rereads Derrida in order to renew deconstruction's various conceptions of language, poetry, philosophy, institutions, difference and the future.This impressive collection of essays from the world's leading Derrida scholars re-evaluates Derrida's legacy and looks forward to the possible futures of deconstruction by confronting various challenges to Derrida's thought. Collectively, the essays argue that Derrida must be read alongside others, an approach that produces some surprising new accounts of this challenging critical thinker.

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'These articulate, often distinguished essays focus on the way Derrida creates a more reflective language, one that includes hesitation, play, and indeterminacy, and opens up to literature and testimony.' Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus English & Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA.
Well-written throughout, Encountering Derrida incorporates a rich intersection of the fields and discourses that Derrida's writings decisively reconfigured. - Henry Sussman, Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
If the contributors to this volume all seek to rethink and transform the contre relation to (and of) deconstruction, this volume can only be considered a success. The complex and challenging issues raised at the cutting edge of Derrida studies can only attest to the continuing significance Derrida and deconstruction have today, 'and, for that matter, tomorrow'(1). -Sally Hart, Philosophy in Review, 2008

About Professor Simon Wortham (Kingston, University London, UK)

Simon Morgan Wortham is Reader in Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His previous publications include Counter-institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (Fordham University Press, 2006) and Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading (Ashgate, 2003). Allison Weiner has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University, USA.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction; 1. Foundations, Geoffrey Benningtin (Emory University, USA); 2. 'Rather than Nothing': Derrida, Literature, and the Resistance of Nihilism, Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK); 3. Accounterability, Peggy Kamuf (University of South California, USA); 4. 'Don't Count Me In': Derrida's Refraining, J. Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine, USA); 5. Reading Over a Globalised World, Samuel Weber (Northwestern University, USA); 6. Counterchange: Derrida's Poetry, William Watkin (Brunel University, UK); 7. Disagreement as (Possible) Event: Derrida contre de Man, Tom Toremans (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium); 8. The Counterpromise: Derrida on the Instant of Blanchot's Death, Allison Weiner (Yale University, USA); 9. Derrida's Transcendental Contraband: Impossible Acts, Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK); 10. The Entropics of Discourse: The 'Materiality' of Affect Between Marx and Derrida, Karyn Ball (University of Alberta, Canada); 11. The Grammar of Deconstruction, Stefan Herbrechter (University of Leeds, UK) and Ivan Callus (University of Malta); 12. Dislocating Derrida: Badiou, the Unthought and the Justice of Mutliplicity, Patience Moll (University of California, Irvine, USA).

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NPB9780826498939
9780826498939
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Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction by Professor Simon Wortham (Kingston, University London, UK)
Professor Simon Wortham (Kingston, University London, UK)
Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
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Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2007-11-08
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