Against Deconstruction (PDF)

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Synopsis

"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . [T]he naïvetê of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book

Book details

Author:
John Martin Ellis
ISBN:
9780691014845
Related ISBNs:
9780691067544
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2017-09-20
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1990
Copyright by:
Princeton University Press 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction, Philosophy