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A challenging and multisided meditation on the importance of Derrida to current developments in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical interpretations of literature.



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Through its engagement with literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytical texts, Taking Chances introduces a critical vocabulary... with which to analyze questions of influence in a theoretical way. Philosophy and Literature

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies
Chapter 2. The Debts of Deconstruction and Other, Related Assumptions
Chapter 3. The Double Game: An Introduction
Chapter 4. Atoms Again: The Deaths of Individualism
Chapter 5. Institutional Authority vs. Critical Power, or the Uneasy Relations of Psychoanalysis and Literature
Chapter 6. Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls"
Chapter 7. Goethezeit
Index

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    A Paperback / softback by Joseph H. Smith, William Kerrigan

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 26/09/1988
      ISBN13: 9780801837494, 978-0801837494
      ISBN10: 0801837499
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A challenging and multisided meditation on the importance of Derrida to current developments in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical interpretations of literature.



      Trade Review
      Through its engagement with literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytical texts, Taking Chances introduces a critical vocabulary... with which to analyze questions of influence in a theoretical way. Philosophy and Literature

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Chapter 1. My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies
      Chapter 2. The Debts of Deconstruction and Other, Related Assumptions
      Chapter 3. The Double Game: An Introduction
      Chapter 4. Atoms Again: The Deaths of Individualism
      Chapter 5. Institutional Authority vs. Critical Power, or the Uneasy Relations of Psychoanalysis and Literature
      Chapter 6. Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls"
      Chapter 7. Goethezeit
      Index

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