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The Invention of Deconstruction

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Invention, Advent, Event

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. The Domestication of Derrida

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. Domestication Narratives

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 67-80
  4. Deconstruction and Critical Authority

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. Derrida and the Authority of Linguistics

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 111-130
    3. The Ventriloquism of Paul de Man

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 131-157
  5. Philosophy, Literature and Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
    2. Metaphor and the Invention of Truth

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 161-177
    3. Performativity and Obligation

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 178-195
    4. Conclusion: Invention and Responsibility

      • Mark Currie
      Pages 196-217
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 218-252

About this book

Why did deconstruction emerge when it did? Why did commentators in literary studies seem to need to look back on it from the earliest moments of its emergence? This book argues that the invention of deconstruction was spread across several decades, conducted by many people, and focused on its two central figures, Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Queen Mary, University of London, UK

    Mark Currie

About the author

Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the author of The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and The Philosophy of Surprise (2013) and About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time (2007), both of which explore issues in narrative time. His previous publications include Postmodern Narrative Theory (1997 and 2011), Difference (2004) and Metafiction (1995).

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