Politics of Deconstruction

Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School He is the author, along with Eleanor Byrne, of Deconstructing Disney (Pluto, 1999), Paul de Man (Routledge, 2000) and editor of The Narrative Reader (Routledge, 2000), Theorising Muriel Spark (AIAA, 2002) and The Politics of Deconstruction (Pluto, 2007).

• IntroductionThe Day After Tomorrow… Or, the Deconstruction of the Future by Martin McQuillan1. Demo by Geoffrey Bennington2. On the Multiple Senses of Democracy by Jean-Luc Nancy3. The Art of the Impossible? by Derek Attridge4. Impossible Speech Acts by Andrew Parker 5. The Crisis of Critique by Robert Bernasconi6. The Popularity of Language: Rousseau and the Mother Tongue by Anne Berger7. In Light of Light: On Jan Pato_ka’s notion of Europe by Rodolphe Gasché8. Phenomenology to Come by Joanna Hodge9. From (Within) Without, by Marc Froment-Meurice10. Thinking (Through) the Desert, by Laurent Milesi11. Graphematics, Politics, Irony by Claire Colebrook12. The irony of deconstruction and the example of Marx by Richard Beardsworth13. Martin McQuillan, by Karl Marx and the Philosopher’s Stone, or, on Theory and PracticeList of ContributorsIndex

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