The origins of deconstruction
By: edited by Martin McQuillan, Ika Willis.
Contributors: McQuillan, Martin.; Willis, Ika, 1975-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New  York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230581906
Subjects: Deconstruction; Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy
Description: "In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin itself"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword: 'Taught by Love'; title: M.McQuillan * Notes on Contributors * Introduction: The Origins of Deconstruction: Derrida's Daughters; title: I.Willis * PROLOGUE * Jacques Derrida, 'Between the writing body and writing': An interview with Daniel Ferrer * Hlne Cixous, 'First of all (from the margins) I am a reader reading: An interview with Daniel Ferrer * PART I: INCUBATION * Dating-Deconstruction; title: M.Froment-Meurice * The Course of a General Displacement, or, The Course of the Choreographer; title: L.Turner * Feminine Endings: Didos Telephonic Body and the Originary Function of the Hymen; title: I.Willis * On Prejudice and Foretelling 2; title: T.Docherty * Extremes Meet; title: J.M.Rabate * PART II: INAUGURATION * The Opening to Infinity: Derridas Quasi-Transcendentals; title: C.Colebrook * Splitting the Origin: Writing and Responsibility; title: M.Grebowicz * Derridean Beginning and Deleuzian Becoming; title: P.Patton * 'Words of Air': On Breath and Inspiration; title: C.Baracchi * PART III: INSTALLATION * Illegibility: On the Spirit of Origins; title: J.P.Leavey * Origins of Deconstruction? Deconstruction, That Which Arrives (If It Arrives); title: J.Wolfreys * Philosophy of Cinders and Cinders of Philosophy: A Commentary on the Origins of Deconstruction and the Holocaust; title: R.Eaglestone * The Beginnings of Art: Heidegger and Bataille; title: G.Bucher * Aesthetic Allegory: Reading Hegel after Bernal; title: M.McQuillan * Notes * Index Foreword: 'Taught by Love'; title: M.McQuillan * Notes on Contributors * Introduction: The Origins of Deconstruction: Derrida's Daughters; title: I.Willis * PROLOGUE * Jacques Derrida, 'Between the writing body and writing': An interview with Daniel Ferrer * Hlne Cixous, 'First of all (from the margins) I am a reader reading: An interview with Daniel Ferrer * PART I: INCUBATION * Dating-Deconstruction; title: M.Froment-Meurice * The Course of a General Displacement, or, The Course of the Choreographer; title: L.Turner * Feminine Endings: Didos Telephonic Body and the Originary Function of the Hymen; title: I.Willis * On Prejudice and Foretelling 2; title: T.Docherty * Extremes Meet; title: J.M.Rabate * PART II: INAUGURATION * The Opening to Infinity: Derridas Quasi-Transcendentals; title: C.Colebrook * Splitting the Origin: Writing and Responsibility; title: M.Grebowicz * Derridean Beginning and Deleuzian Becoming; title: P.Patton * 'Words of Air': On Breath and Inspiration; title: C.Baracchi * PART III: INSTALLATION * Illegibility: On the Spirit of Origins; title: J.P.Leavey * Origins of Deconstruction? Deconstruction, That Which Arrives (If It Arrives); title: J.Wolfreys * Philosophy of Cinders and Cinders of Philosophy: A Commentary on the Origins of Deconstruction and the Holocaust; title: R.Eaglestone * The Beginnings of Art: Heidegger and Bataille; title: G.Bucher * Aesthetic Allegory: Reading Hegel after Bernal; title: M.McQuillan * Notes * Index.