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Against Deconstruction
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2018
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"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . [T]he naïvetê of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book
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"Ellis argues with force and clarity. . . . [He] concludes that what Deconstruction provides is largely an emotional bonus--it gives its adherents 'a routine way to a feeling of being excitedly shocking.' They get the feeling that might attend a genuine piece of original thinking, but here it can be achieved without comparable effort."
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Contents
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Preface
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AGAINST DECONSTRUCTION
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ONE. Analysis, Logic, and Argument in Theoretical Discussion
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TWO. Deconstruction and the Nature of Language
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THREE. Deconstruction and the Theory and Practice of Criticism
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FOUR. What Does It Mean to Say That All Interpretation Is Misinterpretation?
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FIVE. Textuality, the Play of Signs, and the Role of the Reader
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SIX. The Logic of Deconstruction
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SEVEN. Conclusion: The Meaning of Deconstruction in the Contemporary Critical Scene
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Bibliography
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Jacques Derrida; Criticism; Deconstruction; Writing; Theory; Thought; Obscurantism; Sophistication; Logocentrism; Zeno's paradoxes; Antithesis; Eclecticism; Critique; Ambiguity; Essay; Opportunism; Presupposition; Irony; Falsity; Solipsism; Reader-response criticism; Arbitrariness; Antipathy; Wishful thinking; Superiority (short story); Vagueness; Jargon; Linguistic system; Skepticism; Ethnocentrism; Philosophy of language; Ostensive definition; The Death of the Author; Exposition (narrative); Seriousness; Originality; Explanation; Fallacy; Terminology; Language game; Form of life (philosophy); Of Grammatology; Metaphorical language; Suggestion; Objectivity (philosophy); Literary criticism; Rationalism; Writing system; Truth; Foolishness; Speech and Phenomena; Intonation (linguistics); Good faith; Cognate; Phraseology; Uniqueness; Theory of Forms; Reality; Edmund Husserl; J. Hillis Miller; Semiotics; Hostility; Prejudice; Geoffrey Hartman; Philosophical Investigations; Literary theory; Ambivalence; Concept; Term logic; Counterargument
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For a non-specialist adult audience
