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This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of
Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first,
that deconstruction is not “modern”; neither is it
“postmodern” nor simply “modernist.” They also posit that
deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because
deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but
because literature stands out as a “modern” notion. The
contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida’s
affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud,
Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno,
Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. With its strong
connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly
original volume advances modernist literary study and the
relationship of literature and philosophy.
Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific
historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of
history itself, this book sheds new light on the
historical-mindedness of modernism and the artistic avant-gardes.
Cutting across Anglophone and less explored European traditions and
featuring work from a variety of eminent scholars, it deals with
issues as diverse as artistic medium, modernist print culture,
autobiography as history writing, avant-garde experimentations and
modernism’s futurity. Contributors examine both literary and
artistic modernism, combining theoretical overviews and archival
research with case studies of Anglophone as well as European
modernism, which speak to the current historicizing trend in
modernist and literary studies.
This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of
reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in
2004. Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the
1980s, but later there was a backlash against his theories. Today,
one witnesses a general return to his way of reading literature,
the rationale of which is detailed and explained in the essays. The
authors, both well-known and younger specialists, give many precise
examples of how Derrida, who always remained at the cusp between
literature and philosophy, posed fundamental questions and thus
changed the field of literary criticism, especially with regard to
poetry. The contributors also highlight the way Derrida made
spectacular interventions in feminism, psychoanalytic studies,
animal studies, digital humanities and post-colonial studies.
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city
in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict
demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their
long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores
the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary
continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution
to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how
philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry. In
wide-ranging reflections on thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer,
Arendt, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Irigaray, Badiou, Kristeva,
and Agamben, among others, distinguished contributors consider how
different philosophers encountered the force and intensity of
poetry and the negotiations that took place as they sought
resolutions of the quarrel. Instead of a clash between competing
worldviews, they figured the relationship between philosophy and
poetry as one of productive mutuality, leading toward new modes of
thinking and understanding. Spanning a range of issues with nuance
and rigor, this compelling and comprehensive book opens new
possibilities for philosophical poetry and the poetics of
philosophy.
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