Reading and Responsibility examines the relations between deconstruction, literature and ethics. Following a substantial introduction in which Derek Attridge discusses this triangulation, the book discusses the importance of Jacques Derrida’s work for literature and related areas, then moves on to studies of some of the important theorists of literature with whom he was associated: Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes, and J. Hillis Miller. Also included is a discussion of the recent reading of Derrida’s philosophy as ‘radical atheism’, and the book ends with a conversation on deconstruction and place with the theorist and critic Jean-Michel Rabaté. The volume illustrates the continuing vitality of deconstructive thinking in aesthetic analysis, developing Derrida’s contribution by examining the role of the ethical in literature not as moral instruction but as the operation of 2 b&w illustrations responsibility in the very actof reading.
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-4008-9
- Editorial: Edinburgh University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés