Chapter 2 Deconstruction Today: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Secret

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Series Editor’s Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary Criticism 15
7. Chapter 2 Deconstruction Today: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Secret 34
8. Chapter 3 Following Derrida 51
9. Chapter 4 The Impossibility of Ethics: On Mount Moriah 56
10. Chapter 5 Arche- jargon 78
11. Chapter 6 Deconstruction and Fiction 89
12. Chapter 7 Posthumous Infidelity: Derrida, Levinas and the Third 97
13. Chapter 8 Roland Barthes’s Obtuse, Sharp Meaning and the Responsibilities of Commentary 117
14. Chapter 9 Nothing to Declare: J. Hillis Miller and Zero’s Paradox 131
15. Chapter 10 Radical Atheism and Unconditional Responsibility 138
16. Chapter 11 The Place of Deconstruction: A Conversation with Jean- Michel Rabaté 149
17. Bibliography 163
18. Index 175