Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)

McCance, Dawne

ISBN 10: 0791430022 / ISBN 13: 9780791430026

Published by State University of New York Press, 1996

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Softcover. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791430022
• ISBN 13: 9780791430026
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 9 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

An innovative study of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and genealogy, relating the ethical to the problematic of the text as a post or a sending in the work of Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan, Kristeva, and Foucault, and phrasing the ethical as the questions of how to read and write after.

Posts is a collection of original essays that relate the ethical to the problematic of the text as a post or a sending in the work of Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and Michel Foucault. What brings these diverse thinkers together here is the suggestion that something ethical happens (il arrive) through the text only if it is not a self-presentation. The book's innovative studies of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and genealogy phrase the ethical as the question of how to read and write after without either a decidable sender or a predetermined addressee. The collection will be of interest to all those concerned with ethics and with the ethical implications of recent developments in literary criticism, postmodern theory, psychoanalysis, architecture, feminism, philosophy, and religious studies.

About the Author

Dawne McCance is Associate Professor at St. John's College, Winnipeg, Canada.