Deconstructions: User's Guide, A

Description:
This guide to deconstruction ranges across topics and discourses. Chapter topics range from the obvious (feminism, post-colonialism, technology) to the less so (drugs, film, weaving). But each of the essays has more than one focus, exploring or opening on to further and other deconstructions. The book has been put together to demonstrate the ceaselessly multiple and altering contexts in which deconstructive thinking and practice are at work, both within and beyond the academy, both within and beyond what is called the West. Nicholas Royle has commissioned new essays by contemporary thinkers, including Geoffrey Bennington, Diane Elam, J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida.

Table of Contents:
Preface What is Deconstruction?; N.Royle Deconstruction and Cultural Studies; G. Spivak Deconstruction and Drugs; D. Boothroyd Deconstruction and Ethics; G. Bennington Deconstruction and Feminism; D. Elam Deconstruction and Fiction; D Attridge Deconstruction and Film; R.Smith Deconstruction and Hermeneutics; R. Gasche Deconstruction and Love; P. Kamuf Deconstruction and a Poem; J. Hillis Miller Deconstruction and Post-colonialism; R.J.C. Young Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis; M. Ellmann Deconstruction and Technology; T. Clark Deconstruction and Weaving; C Rooney Et Cetera; J. Derrida Index

Author Biography:
NICHOLAS ROYLE is Professor of English at the University of Sussex.