Do not ask for the definition of deconstruction; ask for its
history. What needs and desires did it meet at the time of its
emergence? What kind of threat did it represent? How has our
understanding of deconstruction changed over time? This book offers
an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in
literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the
work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early
impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault
upon truth. After de Man's death there is a steady insistence in
Derrida's work on questions about time - invention, advent, event -
and on the distance between them. This book tells the story of this
transition from truth to time against a background of some of the
most divisive debates of the late-twentieth and early twenty-first
century, about politics, history and ethics.
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