Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781501331862
Subjects: Derrida, jacques, 1930-2004; Modernism (literature); Literature, philosophy; Criticism
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.