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The volume begins with a major statement by the French feminist culture critic Julia Kristeva and includes essays by well-known and also younger continental philosophers writing in the North American context and reassessing the European heritage, its limits and effective futures. The future of postmodernism is assessed in terms of key themes: from the language of desire, the limits of representation, and the revaluation of values, to the feminist rewriting of patriarchy and the critical archeology of deconstruction. Eighteen essays review the postmodernist difference inscribed in modern philosophy. Traditional concerns and preoccupations-the subject, the will, the body, language, representation, and metaphysics-are placed in question through re-readings of rationalist, dialectical, psychoanalytic, aesthetic, and patriarchical values incorporated into modernist thinking. The figures of Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and Derrida are treated in their multiple facets, and in relation to their importance for postmodernism within the continental philosophical framework.

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Author:   Hugh J. Silverman ,  Donn Welton
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780887065224

ISBN 10:   0887065228
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   07 April 1988
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Hugh J. Silverman I. Psychoanalytic Discourse of the Speaking Subject 1. ""On Melancholic Imagination"" Julia Kristeva II. Language and Desire 2. ""Substitution"" Alphonso Lingis 3.""Desire: Language and Body"" M.C. Dillon 4. ""Engorged Philosophy II"" David Farrell Krell III. The Limits of Representation 5. ""Representation and Its Limits in Descartes"" Dalia Judovitz 6. ""Hegelian Dialectic and the Limits of Representation"" Deborah Chaffin 7. ""Heidegger and the Limits of Representation"" Dorothea Olkowski IV. Overcoming Metaphysics and the Revaluation of Values 8. ""Heidegger on Nietzsche: The Question of Value"" Dick White 9. ""Devaluation and Destruction: On the End of Metaphysics and the Revaluation of All Values Richard Taft 10. ""Foucault and Nietzsche: Affectivity and the Will to Power"" Garth Gillan V. Re-Writing Patriarchy 11. ""Women Recovering Our Clothes, Perhaps"" Iris Marion Young 12. ""Logic and Patriarchy"" Craig R. Vasey 13. ""(Re)Writing Patriarchical Texts: The Symposium Barbara Freeman VI. Archaeology of Deconstruction 14. ""Rereading Deconstruction (Today?)"" Christie V. McDonald 15. ""Genealogy and/as Deconstruction: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Foucault on Philosophy as Critique"" Alan D. Schrift 16. ""Deconstructing, Fort/Derrida"" John O'Neill VII. The Future of Postmodernism 17. ""Postmodernism: It's Future Perfect"" Andrew J. McKenna 18. ""Postmodernism's Short Letter: Philosophy's Long Farewell..."" Wilhelm S. Wurzer Contributors About the Editors Index"

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