Saving The Text. Literature Derrida Philosophy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The John Hopkins Press
Publisher Place: Baltimore
Publisher Year: 1982
Edition: Reprint

Description: 184 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Saving the Text" cuts through Jacques Derrida's complex blend of philosophy, commentary, and elaborate wordplay to ascertain his place in the history of criticism and the significance of Glas as literary event. Distinguished critic and scholar Geoffrey Hartman explores the usefulness of Derrida's style of close reading for English and American scholarship and establishes its relevance to the division that has arisen between European and Anglo-American critical approaches. In addition, he discusses Derrida's exepesis in relation to theological commentary. Hartman's culminating "counterstatement" to Derrida is a new theory of literature, both speculative and pragmatic.

ISBN: 9780801824531