Saving the Text: Literature, Derrida, Philosophy

"Saving the Text" cuts through Jacques Derrida's complex blend of philosophy, commentary, and elaborate wordplay to ascertain his place in the history of criticism and the significance of Glas as literary event.

Distinguished critic and scholar Geoffrey Hartman explores the usefulness of Derrida's style of close reading for English and American scholarship and establishes its relevance to the division that has arisen between European and Anglo-American critical approaches. In addition, he discusses Derrida's exepesis in relation to theological commentary. Hartman's culminating "counterstatement" to Derrida is a new theory of literature, both speculative and pragmatic.

Author: Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 03/19/1995
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.91h x 5.85w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780801824531

About the Author

Geoffrey H. Hartman is Karl Young Professor of English at Yale University.

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