Privileging Difference
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2017
168 pages
978-1-350-31780-2 (ISBN)
Description
Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way. Celebrating variety for its own sake, Antony Easthope argues, cultural criticism too readily ignores the role of the text itself in addressing the desire of the reader. With characteristic directness, he takes to task the foremost theorists of the current generation one by one, including Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, Dona Haraway, Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler. In a final tour de force, he contrasts what he calls the two Jakes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, to bring out the way their respective theories need each other. The book is vintage Easthope: wide-ranging, fearless, witty and a radical challenge to complacency wherever it is to be found.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-350-31780-2 (9781350317802)
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Antony Easthope | Catherine Belsey
Privileging Difference
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12/2001
Red Globe Press
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Persons
The late ANTHONY EASTHOPE was Professor of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. His books include Englishness and National Culture and The Unconscious.
The Editor CATHERINE BELSEY chairs the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. Her latest book is Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture.
The Editor CATHERINE BELSEY chairs the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. Her latest book is Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture.
Content
Duchamp
Heath
From Marxism to Difference
Said
Bhabha
Rose
Haraway
Braidotti
Butler
Dollimore
Eagleton
Grossberg
Zizek
The Two Jakes
Conclusion.
Heath
From Marxism to Difference
Said
Bhabha
Rose
Haraway
Braidotti
Butler
Dollimore
Eagleton
Grossberg
Zizek
The Two Jakes
Conclusion.
