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In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the
immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict
to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's
writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene
through the former Yogoslavia and Afghanistan to Palestine and
Baghdad. His 'textual activism' is as impatient with the universal
gestures of philosophy as it is with the complacency and
reductionism of policy-makers and activists alike. This work
records a response to the war on thinking that has marked western
discourse since 9/11.
In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the
immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict
to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's
writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene
through the former Yogoslavia and Afghanistan to Palestine and
Baghdad. His 'textual activism' is as impatient with the universal
gestures of philosophy as it is with the complacency and
reductionism of policy-makers and activists alike. This work
records a response to the war on thinking that has marked western
discourse since 9/11.
The Narrative Reader aims to provide a comprehensive survey of narrative theories ranging from Plato to Post-Structuralism. The selection of texts is bold and broad, demonstrating the extent to which narrative permeates the entire field of literature and culture. It shows the ways in which narrative crosses disciplines, continents and theoretical perspectives and is a long overdue and welcome addition to the field. The Narrative Reader will fascinate students and researchers alike, providing a much needed point of entry to the increasingly complex field of narrative theory.
The Narrative Reader aims to provide a comprehensive survey of narrative theories ranging from Plato to Post-Structuralism. The selection of texts is bold and broad, demonstrating the extent to which narrative permeates the entire field of literature and culture. It shows the ways in which narrative crosses disciplines, continents and theoretical perspectives and is a long overdue and welcome addition to the field. The Narrative Reader will fascinate students and researchers alike, providing a much needed point of entry to the increasingly complex field of narrative theory.
What happens when deconstruction reads politics? This collection of
essays by some of Derrida's most significant readers thinks through
deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of
Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction'
nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters
explored by the contributors to this volume. This book dispels any
notion of the separation of deconstruction from the everyday and
demonstrates the importance of deconstructive thought for the
political.
'I have often declared my admiration for Helene Cixous, for the
person and for the work: immense, powerful, so multiple but unique
in this century.' - Jacques Derrida 'Insister of Jacques Derrida,
so expertly translated by Derrida's principal and most faithful
translator, Peggy Kamuf, is an indispensable, daring, heartfelt and
moving book...It presents a flawless, committed reading that is in
the spirit of Derrida in its serious playfulness, its poetic
sinuousness, its elegant reasoning and rhetoric while also being
wholly in Cixous' own singular voice. This is not merely a study of
Derrida, it is a haunting dialogue with his memory and with his
phantom.' - Julian Wolfreys, Professor of Modern Literature and
Culture, Loughborough University Helene Cixous is arguably the most
insightful and unbridled reader of Jacques Derrida today. In
Insister she brings a unique mixture of theoretical speculation,
breath-taking textual explication and scholarly erudition to an
extremely close reading of Derrida's work, always attentive to the
details of his thinking. At the same time, Insister is an
extraordinarily poetic meditation, a work of literature and of
mourning for Jacques Derrida the person, who was a close friend and
accomplice of Cixous's from the beginning of their careers.
Insister of Jacques Derrida joins Dream I Tell You by Helene Cixous
and Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius by Jacques Derrida,
also published in The Frontiers of Theory series.
Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist
in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly
cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt
throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic
Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant
literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has
continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial,
thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage
as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading
scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's
writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including
his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, Joseph Anton. Contributors
offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a
postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse
of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9/11 and to
the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical
weight arising from his fiction.
One of Derrida's most complex, intriguing and challenging texts,
Glas is a work of resounding importance for literature, for
philosophy, for literature, and for the relationship between the
two. This collection of essays, featuring leading scholars in the
field, seeks to trace its resonance four decades after its
publication. A number of interconnected problems and themes will be
examined, including Derrida's deconstruction of the Hegelian
interpretation of Antigone, the philosophy and politics of familial
and civil life, questions of sexual difference and dissidence, the
question of the signature, the complex role played by figuration
and language, and the continuing relevance of Glas today. While
some of the essays undertake rigorous close readings of the text,
at the same time as tracing the limits of such reading as they are
indeed anticipated by Glas itself, others take this work as the
occasion to explore its reverberations in other writings and in a
host of topics and problems germane not only to literary and
philosophical studies, but to cultural and political worlds far
beyond the confines of academia.
What is the relationship between theory and practice in the
creative arts today? In this book, Martin McQuillan offers a
critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He
goes beyond the recent vocabulary of research management to
consider the more interesting question of the emergence of a
cultural space in which philosophy, theory, history and practice
are becoming indistinguishable. McQuillan considers the work of a
number of writers and thinkers whose work crosses the divide
between theoretical (academic) and creative practice, including
Alain Badiou and Terry Eagleton, and the longer tradition of
'theory-writing' that runs through the work of Helene Cixous,
Roland Barthes and Louis Althusser. His aim is to elucidate the
contemporary ramifications of a relationship that has been
contested throughout the long history of philosophy, from Plato's
dialogues to Derrida's 'Envois'.
The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its
practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's
texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction
without Derrida, Martin McQuillan sets out to do just that, to
continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without
Derrida. The book's principal theme is an attention to instances of
deconstruction other than or beyond Derrida and thus imagining a
future for deconstruction after Derrida. This future is both the
present of deconstruction and its past. The readings presented in
this book address the expanded field of deconstruction in the work
of Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, J.
Hillis Miller, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak and Catherine Malabou.
They also, necessarily, address Derrida's own readings of this
work. McQuillan accounts for an experience of otherness in
deconstruction that is, has been and always will be beyond Derrida,
just as deconstruction remains forever tied to Derrida by an
invisible, indestructible thread.
Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist
in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly
cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt
throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic
Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly the most significant
literary-political event since the Second World War. Rushdie has
continued to produce challenging fiction, controversial,
thought-provoking non-fiction and has a presence on the world stage
as a public intellectual. This collection brings together leading
scholars to provide an up-to-date critical guide to Rushdie's
writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, including
his 2012 memoir of his time in hiding, Joseph Anton. Contributors
offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a
postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse
of the canon; the 'Rushdie Affair'; his responses to 9/11 and to
the 'War on Terror'; and issues of more complex philosophical
weight arising from his fiction.
The work of Jacques Derrida has been of singular importance in the
development of contemporary political theory and political
philosophy, being a major influence and inspiration to Slavoj
Zizek, Richard Rorty, Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and many more
contemporary thinkers. This text brings together a truly first
class line up of Derrida scholars who are developing a
deconstructive approach to politics. Deconstruction is an immanent
critique, looking at the internal logic of any given text or
discourse, revealing how particular concepts are established as
authoritative principles through a variety of textual and
rhetorical devices. A deconstructive reading would then expose how
an apparently authoritative concept, when looked at closely, is
contradictory and contingent on a host of external relations - with
the effect of undermining the force of the text or discourse from
which the concept originates. Such a critical method has proved
revolutionary in much political analysis, particularly ideology
critique.
Demonising Disney is nothing new. Disney films have long been
synonymous with a certain conservative, patriarchal, heterosexual
ideology, occupying a centre-stage position at the heart of the
evil empire. Deconstructing Disney takes issue with knee-jerk
polarities, overturning classical oppositions and recognising that,
just as the Disney 'text' has changed, so too must the terms of
critical engagement. This book is a sharply focused deconstruction
of the political culture - and the cultural politics - of the
Disney canon in the years since the emergence of the so-called New
World Order. Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan offer a critical
encounter with Disney which alternates between readings of
individual texts and wider thematic concerns such as race, gender
and sexuality, the broader context of American contemporary
culture, and the global ambitions and insularity of the last great
superpower. The movies discussed include The Little Mermaid, The
Lion King, Pocohontas, Snow White, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dumbo,
Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Hercules and Mulan.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
What is the relationship between theory and practice in the
creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers
a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He
goes beyond the recent vocabulary of research management to
consider the more interesting question of the emergence of a
cultural space in which philosophy, theory, history and practice
are becoming indistinguishable. McQuillan considers the work of a
number of writers and thinkers who cross the divide between
theoretical and creative practice, including Alain Badiou and Terry
Eagleton, and the longer tradition of 'theory-writing' that runs
through the work of Helene Cixous, Roland Barthes and Louis
Althusser. His aim is to elucidate the contemporary ramifications
of a relationship that has been contested throughout the long
history of philosophy, from Plato's dialogues to Derrida's
'Envois'.
The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its
practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's
texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction
without Derrida, Martin McQuillan sets out to do just that, to
continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without
Derrida. The book's principal theme is an attention to instances of
deconstruction other than or beyond Derrida and thus imagining a
future for deconstruction after Derrida. This future is both the
present of deconstruction and its past. The readings presented in
this book address the expanded field of deconstruction in the work
of Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, J.
Hillis Miller, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak and Catherine Malabou.
They also, necessarily, address Derrida's own readings of this
work. McQuillan accounts for an experience of otherness in
deconstruction that is, has been and always will be beyond Derrida,
just as deconstruction remains forever tied to Derrida by an
invisible, indestructible thread.
Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced
'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek
crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the
renowned British auteur Ken McMullen and the literary theorist
Martin McQuillan, the film draws upon and responds to the
importance of the Antigone of modern thought (Hegel, Arendt, Lacan,
Derrida, Butler), while coming up close to the politics of the
street and the malign effects of the austerity experiment in Greece
today. The screenplay weaves together a range of idioms, including
performance, fiction, documentary, interview and literary collage.
The result is an intensely moving reflection on the tragedy of
austerity today, with contributions from Helene Cixous, Etienne
Balibar and Antonio Negri, as well as several significant figures
in Greek cultural life. The volume includes full transcripts of the
interviews with Cixous, Balibar and Negri, and a previously
unpublished interview with Jacques Derrida on the question of
Oedipus, as well as critical commentary from the filmmakers.
Oxi (Gr. Determiner, lit. 'No', fig. 'Resistance', pronounced
'ochi') retells Sophocles' Antigone through the contemporary Greek
crisis and modern European philosophy. A collaboration between the
renowned British auteur Ken McMullen and the literary theorist
Martin McQuillan, the film draws upon and responds to the
importance of the Antigone of modern thought (Hegel, Arendt, Lacan,
Derrida, Butler), while coming up close to the politics of the
street and the malign effects of the austerity experiment in Greece
today. The screenplay weaves together a range of idioms, including
performance, fiction, documentary, interview and literary collage.
The result is an intensely moving reflection on the tragedy of
austerity today, with contributions from Helene Cixous, Etienne
Balibar and Antonio Negri, as well as several significant figures
in Greek cultural life. The volume includes full transcripts of the
interviews with Cixous, Balibar and Negri, and a previously
unpublished interview with Jacques Derrida on the question of
Oedipus, as well as critical commentary from the filmmakers.
Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida s book The
Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction,
weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film
director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers. Theo
Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed.
His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker
Joanna struggles to make a film about The Post Card. These people
are set on a collision course prompted by a series of letters that
will change their lives. The film features a never before seen
interview with Derrida, alongside contributions from Geoffrey
Bennington, Ellen Burt, Catherin Malabou, J. Hillis Miller and
Samuel Weber. Alongside the original screenplay, Martin McQuillan
provides an extended commentary on Derrida s original text, the
film and its making. Joanna Callaghan reflects on her practice as a
filmmaker and her engagement with philosophy as a director. The
volume concludes with interviews between McQuillan and five leading
Derrida scholars."
Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida s book The
Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction,
weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film
director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers. Theo
Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed.
His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker
Joanna struggles to make a film about The Post Card. These people
are set on a collision course prompted by a series of letters that
will change their lives. The film features a never before seen
interview with Derrida, alongside contributions from Geoff
Bennington, Ellen Burt, Catherin Malabou, J. Hillis Miller and
Samuel Weber. Alongside the original screenplay, Martin McQuillan
provides an extended commentary on Derrida s original text, the
film and its making. Joanna Callaghan reflects on her practice as a
filmmaker and her engagement with philosophy as a director. The
volume concludes with interviews between McQuillan and five leading
Derrida scholars."
This is not a Derrida Reader. It is the first volume to offer a
selection of texts from the field of deconstruction in all its
radical diversity. The collection examines the fortunes of the term
deconstruction, and the ideas associated with it, in the work of
the leading commentators on Derrida's texts. It includes previously
untranslated, newly translated and uncollected work by Derrida and
others. Deconstruction: A Reader begins with examples of
pre-Derridean deconstruction, then divides into sections covering
philosophy, literature, culture, sexual difference, psychoanalysis,
politics, ethics, and memorial texts and interviews by Derrida. It
covers a broad range of topics including: AIDS, architecture, art,
feminism, ghosts, law, Marxism, postmodernism, race, revolution,
Shakespeare, technology, telepathy and theology. This is an
indispensable anthology and a guide both to the history of
deconstruction and to its current scene. It provides a significant
introduction to the challenge of deconstruction. Features * The
first anthology devoted to deconstruction * Broad thematic and
interdisciplinary coverage * The introductory essay provides a
cogent and sustained set of definitions of deconstruction *
Includes previously untranslated, newly translated and uncollected
work by Derrida and others * Provides a comprehensive introduction
to the field
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