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

Colin Davis

ISBN 10: 0804763062 / ISBN 13: 9780804763066

Editore: Stanford University Press Apr 2010, 2010

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Neuware - This lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major 'overreaders'--Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zi'ek and Stanley Cavell--and asks what is at stake and what is to be gained by their approaches to literature and film.

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• Titolo: Critical Excess : Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell
• Editore: Stanford University Press Apr 2010
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804763062
• ISBN 13: 9780804763066
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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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 Žižek, 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."

Informazioni sull?autore

Colin Davis is Professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London. His most recent books are After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory (2004), Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead (2007), and Scenes of Love and Murder: Renoir, Film and Philosophy (2009).