The textual sublime : deconstruction and its differences

Author(s)

• Silverman, Hugh J.
• Aylesworth, Gary E.

Bibliographic Information

The textual sublime : deconstruction and its differences

edited by Hugh J. Silverman and Gary E. Aylesworth

（Contemporary studies in philosophy and literature, 1）

State University of New York Press, c1990

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical reference (p. 253-264) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA07961777
• ISBN:
  • 0791400743
  • 0791400751
  • 0791400751
• LCCN: 88037124
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 274 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN98.D43
  • DC19 : 801/.95
  • NDC8 : 901
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Deconstruction
  • LCSH : Criticism, Textual
  • LCSH : Literature -- Aesthetics
  • LCSH : Literature -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07961915