Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism

This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a "modern" notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida''s affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others.With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy.>

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• Authors: Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania Rabate
• Assisted by: Paul Ardoin (Editor), S. E. Gontarski (Editor), Laci Mattison (Editor), Jean-Michel Rabate (Editor), Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania Rabate (Editor), Jean-Michel Rabaté (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781501331862
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-3186-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism; Understanding Philosophy, Unde; Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism; Understanding Philosophy, Unde
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modernism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -