The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and Its Differences

Silverman, Hugh J., (Editor); Aylesworth, Gary E., (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0791400743 / ISBN 13: 9780791400746

Verlag: State University of New York Press, Albany, New York

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"The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and Its Differences," edited by Hugh J. Silverman and Gary E. Aylesworth, is presented in Very Good condition. This hardcover First Edition/1st printing from 1990, part of the series "Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Literature," showcases a cover that is in great shape, exhibiting only light shelf wear.The binding is square and tight, ensuring the structural integrity of the book. While there's a minor abrasion on the front flyleaf, the interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book delves into the concept of deconstruction, exploring its philosophical stance and the strategies, moves, and rhetorical practices it employs in criticism.Special attention is given to the formulations offered by key figures such as Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, and the volume tackles questions around translation and the notion of difference within the deconstructive framework. The essays in this volume scrutinize these differences and alternatives, with a particular focus on how a text sets its own limits and invokes what is beyond itself.For shipment, the book will be meticulously packaged to protect it from external elements, and a USPS electronic tracking number will be issued without charge. For further information or if you wish to view more pictures of the book, please don't hesitate to contact us.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and Its Differences
• Verlag: State University of New York Press, Albany, New York
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0791400743
• ISBN-13: 9780791400746
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

This book addresses the question of deconstruction by asking what it is and discussing its alternatives. To what extent does deconstruction derive from a philosophical stance, and to what extent does it depend upon a set of strategies, moves, and rhetorical practices that result in criticism? Special attention is given to the formulations offered by Jacques Derrida (in relation to Heidegger's philosophy) and by Paul de Man (in relation to Kant's theory of the sublime and its implications for criticism). And what, in deconstructive terms, does it mean to translate from one textual corpus into another? Is it a matter of different theories of translation or of different practices? And what of difference itself? Does not difference already invoke the possibility of deconstruction's "others"? Althusser, Adorno, and Deleuze are offered as exemplary cases. The essays in this volume examine in detail these differences and alternatives.

The Textual Sublime is particularly concerned with how a text (philosophical or literary) sets its own limits, borders, and margins, how it delimits what constitutes the text per se and how it invokes at the same time what is not determinately in the text. The textual sublime is that aspect of a text that deconstruction shows to be both an element of the text and what surpasses the text, what takes it outside itself (in view of alternatives and alterities) and what ties it to differing philosophical, rhetorical, historical, and critical practices.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the coeditor of Descriptions; Hermeneutics and Deconstruction; Critical and Dialectical Phenomenology; Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy; and The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and Its Differences, all published by SUNY Press.