Rapaport, Herman, 1947-

The theory mess : deconstruction in eclipse / Herman Rapaport. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2001. - xxi, 188 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.

Beginnings -- Co-opting Deconstruction -- Theory as Postphilosophy: Rosi Braidotti, Geoffrey Hartman, and Annette Kolodny -- The Misconstruction of Deconstruction: Gerald Graff and Frank Lentricchia -- Demonizing Deconstruction: Walter Jackson Bate, Rene Wellek, and David Lehman -- America Is Deconstruction? -- Non-Placet -- A World Apart: Derrida and the Frankfurt School -- 1980-1987: A World of Difference -- Deconstructing Otherwise: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- British Developments: The Influence of Screen -- Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions I -- Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions II -- Lurching to the Right -- Social Acts and Excitable Speech -- Vicious Dualisms -- Deconstruction of the Social Relation I: Heidegger and Sex -- Deconstruction of the Social Relation II: Derrida's Itineraries -- Derrida and the Political -- Reconceiving the Theory Mess.

0231121342 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231121350 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Derrida, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation.


Deconstruction.

PN98.D43 / R37 2001

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