ENGLISH

Book of Addresses

By Peggy Kamuf

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9781503624979
DOI
10.1515/9781503624979
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2047331 bytes)
Pages
384\382
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 22:05:27

Description

This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference; fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

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