Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentienth-century literary theory. The school of 'deconstruction' that has grown out of his work has been either absorbed into the corpus of modern literary theory, or criticized for its departures from the original texts of Derrida in whose name it is practised. Timothy Clark's innovative book traces instead sources of Derrida's practice of 'literature' as a form of philosophical thinking, in the work of Heidegger and Blanchot. It offers a welcome stylistic clarity in a field beleaguered by its philosophical and linguistic difficulty. Clark gives close readings of key texts including Heidegger's Conversation on a Country Path, Blanchot's L'attente l'oubli, and Derrida's Pas and Signsponge, and widens the scope of his discussion of philosophical cultivation of 'literary' forms to include in addition the issues of creativity, influence and responsibility as they appear in the work of Lyotard and Levinas.
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In this innovative study, Timothy Martin considers Derrida's reading of literature as a form of philosophical thinking, tracing this trend to the work of Heidegger and Blanchot.
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Although the aesthetic category 'literature' is relatively modern, 'it is nonetheless true that the whole history of the interpretation of the arts of letters has moved and been transformed within the diverse logical possibilities opened up by the concept of mimesis' (Derrida: Diss, p. 187). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parole plurielle, sign sponges, putative science, relation without relation, literary space, country path, received sense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Francis Ponge, Heideggerian Dichtung, Country Path, Heidegger's Conversation, Heideggerian Dichlung, Called Thinking, Dichtung of Dichtung, Paul de Man, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Differend New!
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Although the aesthetic category 'literature' is relatively modern, 'it is nonetheless true that the whole history of the interpretation of the arts of letters has moved and been transformed within the diverse logical possibilities opened up by the concept of mimesis' (Derrida: Diss, p. 187). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parole plurielle, sign sponges, putative science, relation without relation, literary space, country path, received sense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Francis Ponge, Heideggerian Dichtung, Country Path, Heidegger's Conversation, Heideggerian Dichlung, Called Thinking, Dichtung of Dichtung, Paul de Man, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Differend New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 8 pages
- Collected Philosophical Papers by Emmanuel Levinas on 4 pages
- What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger on 4 pages
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on page 126, page 127, and page 172
- On Heidegger and Language by Joseph J. Kockelmans in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction by Nicholas Harrison in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Martin Heidegger (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Timothy Clark in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Andrew Bennett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Tom Cohen on page 81
- Maurice Blanchot (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Ullrich Haase on page 139
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