Deconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deconstruction write by David J. Gunkel. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Deconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a clear and concise introduction to a topic often considered difficult and abstruse: deconstruction. David Gunkel sorts out the concept, terminology, and practices of deconstruction, not to defend academic orthodoxy, or to disseminate the thought of Jacques Derrida--the fabricator of the neologism and progenitor of the concept--but to provide readers with a powerful conceptual tool for the twenty-first century. Gunkel explains that deconstruction is not simply the opposite of construction--the "deconstructed" jacket hanging in your closet is not, strictly speaking, accurately named--or synonymous with destruction. It is a way to think beyond the construction/destruction dichotomy and all other conceptual dichotomies and logical oppositions. After describing what deconstruction is not, and developing an abstract and schematic characterization derived from Derrida, Gunkel offers examples in (rather than of) deconstruction, including logocentrism (the speech/writing dichotomy) and virtuality (the ruling philosophical binary of real/appearance), remix (the original/copy distinction), and the posthuman figure of the cyborg (the human/machine conceptual pairing). Finally, Gunkel discusses the costs and benefits of deconstruction, considering the many things deconstruction is good for and identifying potential problems, including Eurocentrism, relativism, difficulties in communicating the concept, and reappropriation.
The Architecture of Deconstruction
The Architecture of Deconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Architecture of Deconstruction write by Mark Wigley. This book was released on 1993. The Architecture of Deconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By locatingthe architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architectureand deconstruction.
Against Deconstruction
Against Deconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Deconstruction write by John Martin Ellis. This book was released on 1989. Against Deconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . [T]he naïvetê of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book
Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading
Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading write by George Douglas Atkins. This book was released on 2014-10-17. Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deconstruction -- a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the "Yale School" -- is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers a unique, informed, and badly needed introduction to this important movement, written by one of its most sensitive and lucid practitioners. More than an introduction, this book makes a significant addition to the current debate in critical theory. G. Douglas Atkins first analyzes and explains deconstruction theory and practice. Focusing on such major critics and theorists as Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, and Geoffrey Hartman, he brings to the fore issues previously scanted in accounts of deconstruction, especially its religious implications. Then, through close readings of such texts as Religio Laici, A Tale of a Tub, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, he proceeds to demonstrate and exemplify a mode of deconstruction indebted to both Derrida and Paul de Man. This skillfully organized book, designed to reflect the "both/ and" nature of deconstruction, thus makes its own contribution to deconstructive practice. The important readings provided of Dryden, Swift, and Pope are among the first to treat major Augustan texts from a deconstructive point of view and make the book a valuable addition to the study of that period. Well versed in deconstruction, the variety of texts he treats, and major issues of current concern in literary study, Atkins offers in this book a balanced and judicious defense of deconstruction that avoids being polemical, dogmatic, or narrowly ideological. Whereas much previous work on and in deconstruction has been notable for its thick prose, jargon, and general obfuscation, this book will be appreciated for its clarity and grace, as well as for its command of an impressively wide range of texts and issues. Without taming it as an instrument of analysis and potential change, Atkins makes deconstruction comprehensible to the general reader. His efforts will interest all those concerned with literary theory and criticism, Augustan literature, and the relation of literature and religion.
Life's Little Deconstruction Book
Life's Little Deconstruction Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life's Little Deconstruction Book write by Andrew Boyd. This book was released on 1999. Life's Little Deconstruction Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like postmodernism itself, this tiny manual is a work of inspired piracy, melding cutting-edge cultural theory with the corporate and computer lingos that permeate our lives.
