The textual sublime : deconstruction and its differences
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The textual sublime : deconstruction and its differences
(Contemporary studies in philosophy and literature, 1)
State University of New York Press, c1990
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Includes bibliographical reference (p. 253-264) and index
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This book addresses the question of deconstruction by asking what it is and discussing its alternatives. To what extent does deconstruction derive from a philosophical stance, and to what extent does it depend upon a set of strategies, moves, and rhetorical practices that result in criticism? Special attention is given to the formulations offered by Jacques Derrida (in relation to Heidegger's philosophy) and by Paul de Man (in relation to Kant's theory of the sublime and its implications for criticism). And what, in deconstructive terms, does it mean to translate from one textual corpus into another? Is it a matter of different theories of translation or of different practices? And what of difference itself? Does not difference already invoke the possibility of deconstruction's "others"? Althusser, Adorno, and Deleuze are offered as exemplary cases. The essays in this volume examine in detail these differences and alternatives.
The Textual Sublime is particularly concerned with how a text (philosophical or literary) sets its own limits, borders, and margins, how it delimits what constitutes the text per se and how it invokes at the same time what is not determinately in the text. The textual sublime is that aspect of a text that deconstruction shows to be both an element of the text and what surpasses the text, what takes it outside itself (in view of alternatives and alterities) and what ties it to differing philosophical, rhetorical, historical, and critical practices.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Hugh J. Silverman
I. Deconstruction and Criticism
Preliminary Remarks
Gary E. Aylesworth
1. The Choice of Deconstruction
Christopher Fynsk
2. Is Deconstruction an Alternative?
Kathryn Kinczewski
3. Does Deconstruction Make Any Difference?
Michael Fischer
II. Deconstruction and Philosophy
Preliminary Remarks
4. Ending/Closure: On Derrida's Margining of Heidegger
Eugenio Donato
5. The Possibility of Literary Deconstruction: A Reply to Eugenio Donato
David Wood
6. Derrida and Heidegger: The Interlacing of Texts
Tina Chanter
Ill. Philosophy and Criticism
Preliminary Remarks
7. The Différance Between Derrida and de Man
Irene E. Harvey
8. Phenomenality and Materiality in Kant
Paul de Man
9. On Mere Sight: A Response to Paul de Man
Rodolphe Gasché
IV. The Rhetoric and Practice of Deconstruction
Preliminary Remarks
10. Paul de Man and the Subject of Literary History
Gregory S. Jay
11. Recovering the Figure of J. L. Austin in Paul de Man's Allegories of Reading
Brian G. Caraher
12. The Anxiety of American Deconstruction
Howard Felperin
V. Deconstructing Translation
Preliminary Remarks
13. Around and About Babel
Joseph E Graham
14. The Différance of Translation
David B. Allison
15. Lations, Cor, Trans, Re,&c.*
John P. Leavey, Jr.
VI. Alternatives to Deconstruction
Preliminary Remarks
16. Derrida's Epistemology
Antony Easthope
17. The Critical Difference: Adorno's Aesthetic Alternative
Wilhelm S. Wurzer
18. Poststructuralist Alternatives to Deconstruction
Arnaud Villani
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Editors
Index
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