Includes bibliographical references )pages 190-223( and index
Christopher Norris
Roots: structuralism and new criticism. From Kant to Saussure: the prison-house of concepts ; New critic into structuralist? ; Roland Barthes ; Beyond new criticism. -- Jacques Derrida: language against itself. Blindness and insight: deconstructing the new criticism ; Language, writing, differance ; Culture, nature, writing: Rousseau and L?شvi-Strauss. -- From voice to text: Derrida's critique of philosophy. Phenomenology and/or structuralism? -- Nietzsche: philosophy and deconstruction. Nietzsche, Plato and the sophists ; Deconstruction on two wheels ; Writing and philosophy ; Beyond interpretation? ; Nietzsche and Heidegger ; Nietzsche's umbrella. -- Between Marx and Nietzsche: the politics of deconstruction. Derrida on Hegel ; Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction ; Nietzsche contra Marx? ; Foucault and Said: the rhetoric of power. -- The American connection. Deconstruction 'on the wild side': Geoffrey Hartman and J. Hillis Miller ; Paul de Man: rhetoric and reason ; Deconstruction at the limit? ; 'Ordinary language': the challenge from Austin ; Harold Bloom ; Derrida and Bloom on Freud. -- Conclusion: Dissenting voices. Wittgenstein: language and scepticism. -- Afterword )1991(: Further thoughts on deconstruction, postmodernism and the politics of theory