This book addresses the question of deconstruction by asking what it is and discussing its alternatives. To what extent does deconstruction derive from a philosophical stance, and to what extent does it depend upon a set of strategies, moves, and rhetorical practices that result in criticism? Special attention is given to the formulations offered by Jacques Derrida (in relation to Heidegger's philosophy) and by Paul de Man (in relation to Kant's theory of the sublime and its implications for criticism). And what, in deconstructive terms, does it mean to translate from one textual corpus into another? Is it a matter of different theories of translation or of different practices? And what of difference itself? Does not difference already invoke the possibility of deconstruction's "others"? Althusser, Adorno, and Deleuze are offered as exemplary cases. The essays in this volume examine in detail these differences and alternatives.
The Textual Sublime is particularly concerned with how a text (philosophical or literary) sets its own limits, borders, and margins, how it delimits what constitutes the text per se and how it invokes at the same time what is not determinately in the text. The textual sublime is that aspect of a text that deconstruction shows to be both an element of the text and what surpasses the text, what takes it outside itself (in view of alternatives and alterities) and what ties it to differing philosophical, rhetorical, historical, and critical practices.
Price: £72.50
Pages: 294
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Publication Date:
16 January 1990
ISBN: 9780791400746
Format: Hardcover
<p><b>Acknowledgments </b></p><p> <b>Introduction </b></p><p> <i>Hugh J. Silverman</i></p><p> <b>I. Deconstruction and Criticism </b></p><p> <b>Preliminary Remarks </b></p><p> <i>Gary E. Aylesworth</i></p><p> <b>1. The Choice of Deconstruction </b></p><p> <i>Christopher Fynsk</i></p><p> <b>2. Is Deconstruction an Alternative? </b></p><p> <i>Kathryn Kinczewski</i></p><p> <b>3. Does Deconstruction Make Any Difference? </b></p><p> <i>Michael Fischer</i></p><p> <b>II. Deconstruction and Philosophy </b></p><p> <b>Preliminary Remarks </b></p><p> <b>4. Ending/Closure: On Derrida's Margining of Heidegger </b></p><p> <i>Eugenio Donato</i></p><p> <b>5. The Possibility of Literary Deconstruction: A Reply to Eugenio Donato </b></p><p> <i>David Wood</i></p><p> <b>6. Derrida and Heidegger: The Interlacing of Texts </b></p><p> <i>Tina Chanter</i></p><p> <b>Ill. Philosophy and Criticism </b></p><p> <b>Preliminary Remarks </b></p><p> <b>7. The Différance Between Derrida and de Man </b></p><p> <i>Irene E. Harvey</i></p><p> <b>8. Phenomenality and Materiality in Kant </b></p><p> <i>Paul de Man</i></p><p> <b>9. On Mere Sight: A Response to Paul de Man </b></p><p> <i>Rodolphe Gasché</i></p><p> <b>IV. The Rhetoric and Practice of Deconstruction </b></p><p> <b>Preliminary Remarks </b></p><p> <b>10. Paul de Man and the Subject of Literary History </b></p><p> <i>Gregory S. Jay</i></p><p> <b>11. Recovering the Figure of J. L. Austin in Paul de Man's Allegories of Reading </b></p><p> <i>Brian G. Caraher</i></p><p> <b>12. The Anxiety of American Deconstruction </b></p><p> <i>Howard Felperin</i></p><p> <b>V. Deconstructing Translation </b></p><p> <b>Preliminary Remarks </b></p><p> <b>13. Around and About Babel </b></p><p> <i>Joseph E Graham</i></p><p> <b>14. The Différance of Translation </b></p><p> <i>David B. Allison</i></p><p> <b>15. Lations, Cor, Trans, Re,&c.
* </b></p><p> <i>John P. Leavey, Jr.</i></p><p> <b>VI. Alternatives to Deconstruction </b></p><p> <b>Preliminary Remarks </b></p><p> <b>16. Derrida's Epistemology </b></p><p> <i>Antony Easthope</i></p><p> <b>17. The Critical Difference: Adorno's Aesthetic Alternative </b></p><p> <i>Wilhelm S. Wurzer</i></p><p> <b>18. Poststructuralist Alternatives to Deconstruction </b></p><p> <i>Arnaud Villani</i></p><p> <b>Notes </b></p><p> <b>Selected Bibliography </b></p><p> <b>Contributors </b></p><p> <b>Editors </b></p><p> <b>Index</b></p>
