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Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell

By Colin Davis

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0804763062, 9780804763066, 0804763070, 9780804763073
LCC
PN81 .D374 2010
Open Library ID
OL23632132M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10132472 bytes)
Pages
240\235
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj ?i?ek, and Stanley Cavell. Their approaches are very different from one another, but they each make unexpected interpretive leaps that render their readings exhilarating and unnerving.But do they go too far? Does a scribbled note left behind by Nietzsche really tell us about the nature of textuality? Can Hitchcock truly tell you "everything you always wanted to know about Lacan"? Does the blanket hung up in a motel room invoke the Kantian divide between the knowable phenomenal world and the unknowable things in themselves? Contextualizing the work of the five thinkers in the intellectual debates to which they contribute, this book analyzes the stakes and advantages of "overreading."

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