This cutting-edge work of narrative theory examines how "metalepsis"--the transgression of the boundaries between narrative levels--has been used to construct the postmodern narrative subject. Concentrating on the writings of Samuel Beckett, Christine Brooke-Rose, and Angela Carter, Malina both interprets the narrative strategies of these authors and offers a new theoretical tool--a deconstructive approach to narratological categories that ...

JOHN LLEWELYN has been Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, and the Arthur J. Schmitt Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. Among his publications are Beyond Metaphysics? The Hermeneutic Circle in Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Derrida on the Threshold of Sense; The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience; Emmanuel ...

The definitive edition of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars.
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucault's courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most ...

These readings are neither prescriptive, definitive, nor definitional. Each essay seeks out, in the work it studies, those moments that pronounce or propose futures that enable speculation, moments in which the speculator has to make promises. As Derrida says in his essay, Between lying and acting, acting in politics, manifesting one s own freedom through action, transforming facts, anticipating the future, there is something like an essential ...

Originally published in 1989, The Deconstruction of Time was the first to examine what has become the fundamental, even defining, project in continental philosophy: double rethinking. Begun by Husserl, this area of inquiry partially seeks to rethink time in terms of our experience of it; a second aspect of the project, begun by Heidegger, is an attempt to rethink our selves (and philosophy itself) in terms of the results of that initial ...

This brief text assists students in understanding Derrida's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON DERRIDA is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this ...

"Power", the third and final volume of the Foucault series, draws together Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. Includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings, interviews, and letters. ...

Dan Beer uncovers a labyrinthine network of ideas and linguistic patterns beneath the surface of French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault's 1976 critique of sex and sexuality, La Volonte de savoir. Through close textual analysis he addresses the issue of language and its effects on the world we inhabit. A fascinating and unusually diverse range of references informs Michel Foucault: Form and Power: whether discussing the forgotten ...

The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of a range of disciplines in the humanities through its questioning of some of the basic tenets of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work; the assembled contributions - on law, literature, ethics, history, gender, politics and psychoanalysis, among others - constitute an investigation of the role of Derrida's work within the field of ...

What is the nature of the relationship of Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to Edmund Husserl and phenomenology? Is deconstruction a radical departure from phenomenology or does it trace its origins to the phenomenological project? In Derrida and Husserl, Leonard Lawlor illuminates Husserl's influence on the French philosophical tradition that inspired Derrida's thought. Beginning with Eugen Fink's pivotal essay on Husserl's philosophy, Lawlor ...