Écart & différance
Subtitle: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on seeing and writing
By: edited by M.C. Dillon.
Contributors: Dillon, M. C. 1938-
Publisher: Humanities Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Atlantic Highlands, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780391039896; 9780391039902
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, -- 1908-1961; Derrida, Jacques; Difference (Philosophy); Postmodernism; Deconstruction
Other titles: Écart and différance.; Écart et différance.
Description: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida articulate two overlapping but divergent ways of thinking about differentiation, ecart and differance. This volume represents the viewpoints of fifteen leading North American scholars working in the fields of Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and postmodernism.

In essays written expressly for this volume, these scholars address the matrix of thought underlying contemporary responses to postmodernism at large and deconstructionism in particular: identity and difference, community and alterity, self and other, metaphysics and its closure, language and its beyond, signification and referentiality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on the phenomenon / Thomas W. Busch; title: Chiasmatic differences: the separation of sight in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida / David S. Ferris; title: Expressions and inscription at the origins of language / Dorothea Olkowski; title: The Flesh as Urpräsentierbarkeit in the interrogative: the absence of a question in Derrida / Patrick Burke; title: Eliminating some confusion: the relation of being and writing in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida / Leonard Lawlor; title: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: la différEnce / G.B. Madison; title: Philosophical extravagance in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida / Joseph Margolis.; title: On the pre-noetic reality of time / Shaun Gallagher; title: Reconstructive time: Écart, Différance, fundamental obscurity / Dennis T. O'Connor; title: Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Joyce's Ulysses: is Derrida really Bloom and Merleau-Ponty Dedalus, and who can say 'yes' to Molly? / Glen A. Mazis; title: Blindness and invisibility: the ruins of self-portraiture (Derrida's re-reading of Merleau-Ponty) / Robert Vallier; title: Reading postmodernism as interruption (between Merleau-Ponty and Derrida) / Hugh J. Silverman; title: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: difference/identity / Bernard Flynn; title: ...wild being/écart/capital... / Wilhelm S. Wurzer.