Deconstruction an American institution

"While the broad outlines of the rise, fury, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical turn are well known among scholars, in this intellectual history Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform our understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, mischaracterized,...

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1. Verfasser: Jones-Katz, Gregory (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, London The University of Chicago Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"While the broad outlines of the rise, fury, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical turn are well known among scholars, in this intellectual history Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform our understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, mischaracterized, and left for dead-even as its precepts and influence transformed literary studies and a host of other fields in the humanities. Jones-Katz shows that deconstruction in America-so often ridiculed as a French infection-was equally an American phenomenon, rooted in preexisting political and intellectual tensions, with eventual influence throughout American scholarship, politics, and culture"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:370 Seiten
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ISBN:9780226536057
978-0-226-53605-7
9780226535869
978-0-226-53586-9