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Book SynopsisA clarifying account of the general landscape of critical theory in the United States over the last 30 years ending with the current eclipse of deconstruction.
Trade ReviewAn extensive and careful evaluation, through which Rapaport performs an inestimable service. SubStance
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Beginnings Co-opting Deconstruction Theory as Postphilosophy: Rosi Braidotti, Geoffrey Hartman, Annette Kolodny The Misconstruction of Deconstruction: Gerald Graff and Frank Lentricchia Demonizing Deconstruction: Walter Jackson Bate, RenC Wellek, and David Lehman America is Deconstruction? Non-Placet A World Apart: Derrida and the Frankfurt School 1980--1987: A World of Difference Deconstructing Otherwise: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak British Developments: The Influence of AeMDULOScreenAeMDNMO Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions I Eclipsing Deconstruction: History of Subject-Positions II Lurching to the Right Social Acts and Excitable Speech Vicious Dualisms Deconstruction of the Social Relation I: Heidegger and Sex Deconstruction of the Social Relation II: Derrida's Itineraries Derrida and the Political Reconceiving the Theory Mess Postscript Notes Bibliography
