Textualities - 9781138157125

Taylor & Francis

Textualities is both an account of recent developments in Continental philosophy and a demonstration of philosophy as a distinctive theoretical practice of its own. It can be read as a presentation and evaluation of major figures from Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty to Focault and Derrida with detailed acconts of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Blanchot and Kristeva. > INTRODUCTORY REMARKS; Part I Continental Philosophy and the Texture of Theory; Chapter 1 From Hermeneutics to Deconstruction; Chapter 2 SEMIOTICS AND HERMENEUTICS; Chapter 3 HERMENEUTICS AND INTERROGATION; Chapter 4 INTERROGATION AND DECONSTRUCTION; Part II Toward a Theory of Textuality; Chapter 5 ENFRAMING THE WORK OF ART; Chapter 6 WRITING AT THE EDGE OF METAPHYSICS; Chapter 7 T EXTUALITY AND LITERARY THEORY; Chapter 8 THE LANGUAGE OF TEXTUALITY; Part III Autobiographical Textualities; Chapter 9 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTUALITY AND THOREAU'S W ALDEN; Chapter 10 TRACES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTUALITY IN NIETZSCHE'6