Reading and responsibility : deconstruction's traces /

Reading and responsibility : deconstruction's traces /

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Author / Creator:	Attridge, Derek.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.
Description:	x, 179 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The frontiers of theory Frontiers of theory.
Subject:	Derrida, Jacques. Derrida, Jacques. Literature -- Philosophy. Deconstruction. Criticism. Criticism. Deconstruction. Literature -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8117189

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ISBN:	9780748640089 (hbk.) 0748640088 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Derrida, deconstruction and literacy criticism
Deconstruction today : literature, postcolonialism and the secret
Following Derrida
The impossibility of ethics : on Mount Moriah
Arche-jargon
Deconstruction and fiction
Posthumous infidelity : Derrida, Levinas and the third
Roland Barthes's obtuse, sharp meaning and the responsibilities of commentary
Nothing to declare : J. Hillis Miller and zero's paradox
Radical atheism and unconditional responsibility
The place of deconstruction : a conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté.