Posts
Subtitle: Re Addressing the Ethical (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: July 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780791430026
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy; Sociology; Ethics, Modern; 20th century; Postmodernism
Description: Posts is a collection of original essays that relate the ethical to the problematic of the text as a post or a sending in the work of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and Michel Foucault. What brings these diverse thinkers together here is the suggestion that something ethical happens (il arrive) through the text only if it is not a self-presentation.

The book's innovative studies of deconstruction, psycho-analysis, and genealogy phrase the ethical as the question of how to read and write after without either a decidable sender or a predetermined addressee. The collection will be of interest to all those concerned with ethics and with the ethical implications of recent developments in literary criticism, postmodern theory, psychoanalysis, architecture, feminism, philosophy, and religious studies.