Displacement: Derrida and After

Displacement is a unique collection of essays devoted to Jacques Derrida, widely regarded as the greatest influence on the theory and practice of reading and writing of the past fifteen years. Reflecting Derrida's broad philosophical and cultural concerns, the essays in this volume deal with questions of interpretation in literature, psychoanalysis, theology, and political theory. Writing, feminism, Jewishness, radical politics, and the unconscious are all presented here as appropriate objects of a literary study that goes far beyond conventional structural analyses of individual texts. An insightful introduction by Mark Krupnick clarifies the meaning of displacement, a concept and method central to Derrida's work. Krupnick discusses the recent history and status of displacement as a key term in contemporary theory both in Europe and in America.

Author: Mark Krupnick
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 11/22/1983
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780253318039

About the Author

Mark Krupnick, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is author of Lionel Trilling and The Fate of Cultural Criticism.